midcenturymodernist.com

I find this site to be a beautiful example of a blog layout. The grid based design, the type choices and yet it’s all very readable and scannable. Really great site, and it’s a dark background site too, I usually don’t like that type of site too...

basecamphq.com (v3)

Yeah, yeah, I know. We recently did a design review of the conversion process on basecamphq.com, thing is the very next day they rolled out a design. The new design is very well done, and largely simplifies over the last iteration of their site. I’m sure...

hicksdesign.co.uk/journal

We’ve featured Hicksdesign before here on UMS. Heck we’ve interviewed him too. One thing is for certain, he’s a leader in our field, aside from being a good blogger to follow his website/blog is gorgeous and also makes great use of the media query to...

colly.com/journal

We’ve reviewed colly.com before here on UMS. So I won’t re-hash how much I love the design. I think it’s justified to talk about the blog or “journal” portion of the site The beautiful thing about this if you haven’t caught it yet...

theidealists.com

I love the visual style of this website. The really blocky yet very articulate lines and type all work together harmoniously to really give a great viewing experience. The site is so very text heavy but I just don’t feel it as I scroll down the page, it scans...