Summly

Summly

Summly has been in the news lately because the creator, Nick D’Aloisio, has just sold it for $30m to Yahoo. And he’s only 17. I haven’t used the app itself (it’s not available in the US), but it looks very cool and smart. The video is...
Kotaku

Kotaku

The new Kotaku site is part of a rollout of a new platform from Gawker. Other sites using the same platform so far include Jalopnik and Deadspin. It’s helpful that they’ve linked to a post about the new look, but it doesn’t give us much insight into...
Build

Build

I really dig this splash page for the Build Windows conference series. It’s simple and straight forward but there is also a little magic baked in with the mask like parallax design. We work on a lot of similar type work here at UMS for our conferences and this...
Heliom

Heliom

There are a ton of really great interactions both for desktop and mobile worked into the Heliom website design. The thing I love most about it is it feels very new, like new interactions for me. As I make my way through the different experiences on this site, from...
Dwolla

Dwolla

The Dwolla site design is of good quality and execution. I like the different configuration and stacking of the elements on the page as you scale the page down to smaller screen widths. What I like most of all is the use of negative space between the main/topmost copy...