Just a fun addition to the gallery here. I love the parallax vibe connected to the mouse movement. Fun stuff all around.
Focus Lab
I lurrrrve the new Focus Lab site design. It's full of minimal beauty and some very thoughtful interactions. Simple stuff, like the "get started" form link on the footer, check out that dropdown to start off the conversation on working with these guys. Smart stuff.
Editorially
This may not sound like the smartest review; but I love websites that are mostly words and wind up feeling like they are graphically rich. The Editorially site does just that. It's a website selling and app that's built for writing where all the crud of a word...
Curadmir
Curadmir is a whole lot to take in at one glance. It has a lot of visual moving parts and is filled with little visual treats that pop up as you interact with the content. It also utilizes video to nicely create a bit of narrative to the content. It's also kind of...
Jewelry Wise
The Jewelry Wise website is a great example to study if you're considering one of those mega-navs. This design utilizes it quite well on both the desktop and mobile versions of the design. The page also has good rhythm and leads you down the page in a succinct manner...
Paradox
Paradox is beautifully minimal design with a clear focus on funneling potential clients into a conversation. The site is clearly conceived and simple in execution. The differentiator is the quality of the work. Minimal design at its best.
Coin
Animate all the things. Love the clean and bright look of this site. The narrative created by the animations is just wonderful. I love simple designs that feel easy and light, but clearly took some savvy. It's just enough sex to be awesome.
Niche Creative
Niche Creative is ultra minimal. It's minimal design, minimal interaction, and minimal content. You can't get more minimal than that, and yet, the site feels complete and useful. The beautifully soft colors are wonderful. If their list of services looks just a little...
Drexler
The Drexler website is both minimal and highly interactive. There's plenty of javascript here for everyone but it's not overly distracting. Things move around smoothly and it's still fairly easy to generate a good mental picture of what's going to go on each page as...
One Mighty Roar
I like the first pass minimal look to the One Mighty Roar website. However once you start to click through the site you find that the pages are lengthly and deep with content and imagery. I also like how they've used the hamburger icon to show you what's beyond the...
Fitstar
Fitstar is a beautiful site that uses animations to quickly focus the viewers attention on the most important content in the viewport. The effect is engaging and varied enough to stay interesting. Each transition and animation is appropriate the the content and...
Adaptive Path
The new Adaptive Path website is "as always" a thing of beauty. There really is a lot going on here when on the surface it looks like a simple design. From the slight movement of the top header/navigation, to show you it's there, down to the overall approach of the...
82birds
82birds has a lovely handicraft feel that pairs well with the company's brand. The typography is nicely balanced by the textural elements peppered throughout the site. I especially like the thin line dividers that bookend page titles.
Colgraphix
Colgraphix this is a nice site with a mix of interesting animations, textures, imagery and media. One interesting detail is the loading screen, which manages the function well, but doesn't feel like a loading screen. It's a nice detail that makes the site feel like it...
Layervault
Layervault has some crazy awesome animations. I love how each of the animations intuitively relates to the idea that they are trying to convey. It's visually minimal, but conceptually complex. So simple and so effective. Nicely done.
Skookum
I really dig the new Skookum website design. It's very clean and professional feeling but also has a vibe that is counter to an overly technical appeal. There is just enough movement and little surprises tucked away here and there to keep a level of dynamism in the...
Kano
The Kano page is really just a "splash" or advertising page for the kickstarter campaign. But boy does it work, the way they take you from concept to showing the build out of the computer as you scroll down has you pretty much ready to buy the thing as soon as you hit...
Squid Compression
I like a simple approach, the Squid website does just that. Basically working much like a keynote/powerpoint slideshow - which is really all it needs to do in this instance. The navigation works pretty well, with the down arrow at the bottom and the different...
Google Ventures
The new Google Ventures site is an interesting study in creating something rich and minimal. Rich in that there are a number of visual and interactive features that make the site interesting and extremely navigable. I'm not a huge fan of the side-based fly out...
Firefox OS
I sometimes wonder whether the ubiquity of sites that use scrolling for animation and parallax effects will come to define a period in web design in a way that “Flash/DHTML” sites now do. Having said that, for the time being let’s just enjoy this visual feast – of...
Design Week Portland 2013
I love the Design Week Portland 2013 site design. The way the images flow through in the main image area as you scroll down the page is a very cool interaction. Taking your mouse away from the area makes the image disappear as well. I like the rest of the layout too,...
Ugmonk
The newly updated Ugmonk store site is very clean and straightforward, enabling the user to very easily look through their products. I particularly like the header nav design. The way the store nav is "featured" by sticking in place as you scroll down the page is...
viewflux
I like the implied simplicity of the viewflux site design. It starts off with large photos in a slideshow which seem noisy visually but then it tapers off into some really nicely done grid layout and easy to read copy design. I particularly dig the way the tour page...
cottonbureau.com
Cotton Bureau is a curated, crowd-funded t-shirt community for designers brought to you by Full Stop; the brains and braun behind United Pixelworkers. It's a great concept with an equally solid site. I think there's a good balance between Cotton Bureau and individual...
Robby Leonardi
Both his portfolio and resume are cool, but mainly go check out the resume page of this site. Fantastic stuff. This is a really neat take on a single page website design that employs scrolling as primary navigation across the site. Great illustration work and cool...
teamtreehouse.com
Newly updated design for Treehouse. The design is incredibly focused and direct yet at the same time the photography and illustrations are open and inviting feeling. The color palette also plays on the essence of making you feel relaxed. Good responsive work here too,...
Thoughtbot
The Thoughtbot site is a really good experience. It's simple and fast to browse and really feels like a "content" or "mobile" first approach. Which is interesting to me, since this is what they do, it's a good idea to really show that off for potential clients and...
Rog.ie
Rogie's site is a nice example of keeping things simple and straightforward and also fine detail work. This is the stuff he's known for. There are a lot of little interaction details built into the website that add a great deal to the experience. This is a great...
diy.org
This site is all kinds of interesting. It teaches kids new skills and through the power of social media, it connects them to others that share their interests. Honestly, it looks like a heckuva lot of fun for any age. The design is solid - with 3 streamlined paths you...
Sass
The new Sass site! It's what you'd expect, good quality simple design. The new logo is quite nice, very succinct and direct, it's a good mark. Nice illustration of the glasses too. This site has to do so much, it has to be easy to read through, fast to get to and...
