MOLAMIL

MOLAMIL

Fun, fun, fun. I like this site from Molamil out of Denmark - even if the wack-a-mole heads of the employees are a little creepy... Great transitions into other pages - and fun vibe all the way through! Submitted by: Joakim Norman Twitter: @molamil Role: Designer...

Frank Underwood 2016

Frank Underwood 2016

We don't review political websites normally - And - maybe I'm a little politically jaded, but he's the only candidate that I've seen that's actually honest with his intent. If you don't immediately recognize this as a reference to NetFlix's House of Cards - I can't...

Format

Format

You know, I have heard a lot of belly-aching from designers about pre-designed website platforms like Format (not specifically them, but others). My question to them has always been, "listen, is that website meeting the customer's needs? Yes? Then what's wrong with...

Beattie Bailey

Beattie Bailey

I think we would have replaced our wedding planner with Beattie Bailey (out of London), just based on their website. Love the framing of the site, the movement (from top to bottom, and in the logo), and the nav (how it starts in the footer, and moves up on scroll to...

Ramotion

Ramotion

Good, clean design from Ramotion out of San Francisco. Very work-centered, and just enough color and animation to make the first three work samples pop.

Si le Soleil

Si le Soleil

Pretty crazy site design. I love the animated interactions and imagery and stuff. It's also pretty rad that they were able to keep it pretty much intact on smaller mobile screen widths too. Check out that nav design too, pretty intense but super rewarding on desktop.

Space City

Space City

So far, today is friends day at UMS - here's another friend of ours: Matt Keas (@matthiasak) has his 3rd year (I think) conference Space City JS in Houston, Texas in April a couple of weeks before our ConvergeSE. We like the super-simple one-pager, perfect for a...

MailChimp 2015

MailChimp 2015

Ahhh - our friends at MailChimp have put our their 2015 Year in Review - and it's pretty sweet! I love how it starts with the mariachi band cover of the Star Wars theme - and even though it's a simple site, the color and vibe really speaks to MailChimp's fun...

SFCD

SFCD

As I'm reviewing the SFCD website, I have the Foo Fighters' Something From Nothing blasting in my headphones - when I landed on the page, the video background and animations go really great with each other. Besides that - this is a cool site, that has great movement...

Worlds Fair USA

Worlds Fair USA

Sweet little design for the World's Fair USA "petition". It has a bunch of cool features to it. It doesn't quite seem complete - but there are some nice elements in it (plus - yeah, I'd like to see a World's Fair come back to the US too - I still have a program from...

Cracker Barrel

Cracker Barrel

Whenever we hit the road to put on a conference (like ConvergeSE / BDConf / FrontEndDesign Conf / or Grok - shameless plugs...) you can guarantee that around 6am on the first leg of the trip, we'll stop at a Cracker Barrel. After being in many, many Cracker Barrels -...

Radar #122

Radar #122

Each week, we do a round up of curated "stuff from the interwebs" that we call Radar. In this week's 122nd Radar: Native or Not? The Untapped Power of Web Apps This post was adapted from a talk Dan Tello has been giving this year (BD Conf and Forge were awesome and...

YZDesigns

YZDesigns

A lot of what's on here layout wise is standard fair but it looks really nicely put together. I believe this is a theme as well, but either way take in the design for what it's worth. Solid layout overall.

Dan Strogiy

Dan Strogiy

Rather minimal layout overall but there's enough here to be visually striking. Strong work across the board. I like the background image and how it scales based on the screen width you target as well. Smart.

Motiv

Motiv

Sometimes architect's websites can be crazy and very "flash" like. Remember that? I'm still seeing things like that, particularly in this industry for some reason... The Motive site skirts the line with the page loader on each section and the atypical layout scheme....

Keep Portland Weird

Keep Portland Weird

Great intern project site (with oversight) from the folks at Oblio out of Portland - based on what to do when the earthquake comes to destroy their city... Love the line in the About section: "The earthquake may take away our electricity, but it will never take away...

Diyanshu

Diyanshu

Pretty standard approach but made interesting by doing things a little bit different. I love the way the hero image/area slides up in an animated manner as you scroll, that was surprising and I liked it. I also really like the way they are displaying the work images,...

Sunday Grind

Sunday Grind

Simple yet powerful visuals and text make this website stand out to me. I love the headline and I love the typography. The way the work samples are presented are visually bold and lead you down the page scrolling for more.

Fable&Co

Fable&Co

I really love the big images used on the home page for the work samples, I also love the way the images slightly zoom in as youm mouse over them too. Overall the design has a such a great vibe and comes off feeling very cool. There's a rather interesting visual moment...

Norwegian Airlines

Norwegian Airlines

Our opinion of restaurant sites is usually like our opinion of airline sites - they generally stink. That's why it's refreshing to see Norwegian Airlines' site. It's clean, and simple, and functional. They've taken a lot of the business out of the home page, and put...

Modsy

Modsy

The product looks pretty stellar and the website matches it quite well. I dig the simplified lines and approach to the layout. The slider being place down lower on the page scroll is well placed and timed too.

Flatiron

Flatiron

Very nicely done business oriented website here. It's enterprise-y in all it's glory but also very slick and not busted. I love the way the main nav changes color to indicate state on the page. Then when you hit the section as you scroll that walks you through the...

Google Ventures

Google Ventures

Another stunning version of the Google Ventures website. I love the slight parallax on the main imagery paired with the overall minimalism. The new logo is quite nice as well.

The Forecaster

The Forecaster

Have you ever watched a movie (documentary or historicalish fiction), and wished you had some extra insight into the background of the film? Well, for The Forecaster (see info below - and, well the website attached), they've done just that. It has a Financial Times...

Radar #121

Radar #121

Each week, we do a round up of curated "stuff from the interwebs" that we call Radar. In this week's 121st Radar: User behaviour Websites and apps are designed for compulsion, even addiction. Should the net be regulated like drugs or casinos? Free Download: Clocks...

NJ(LA)

NJ(LA)

um... wut? Crazy, but cool site from Nicole Jacek out of California - be careful clicking on the circle on the top left with your headphones on... or off. Enjoy some experimental stuff!

Circles Conference 2016

Circles Conference 2016

Arrrrgh - it's killing me - I've been trying to figure out / remember for the past two days what album cover that the Circles Conference is pulling their hero image from... at least I think it's an album cover - I'm doubting myself more and more on this over the week...

Sandows

Sandows

Super cool scrolling image in the background of the site, turns out it's the logo too. Pretty solid. I love the minimal yet engrossing vibe of the site. If only I could try this coldbrew!

Morphix

Morphix

Pretty nice soft yet solid vibe for the Morphix Studios website. I love the illustration work across the site and the simple layout details make me smile. From the Designer: Website of a design studio, based in Slovenia, Europe. We're specialized in product design...

Y Collective

Y Collective

Really cool layout and detail work for the Y Collective website. I love the honeycomb stuff and the load in animations on the different sections of the home page. Bravo on this design guys! From the Designer: When I have created logo, I decided that I will use the...