Really dig this site from Firebelly out of Chicago - especially for the hamburger boxes off the About page. They've made a strong decision to emphasize their work (see the home page is the Work page), and allow you to filter the work from the off-screen nav (to not...
I like the simplicity of this site by Cocoon out of the UK - I kind of like that they don't do images until later in the page. Then they keep it clean past that. The project detail pages are nice too - images can be large, and don't know how quickly they come through...
This is a fun site from Aloha Buggies in Hawaii - great artwork throughout. I wish the mobile version was the same as the desktop - but I'm glad there is a mobile version. Working with a travel company for their site, we know organizing all of this - plus the...
This is a cool agency site out of Santiago, Chile from Alce. Love the coloring - I wish it scrolled a little slower so you could see the work done on the parallax. Other than that - pretty decent. From the Designer: Agencia digital en Santiago Chile. Diseño de paginas...
Cool shopping site out of Australia for The Practical Man. We've seen a couple of sites like this, that has that letterpress, old time order pad patterning - but we haven't really seen it with a shopping site. The product category and brand pages are pretty sweet when...
I happened to be listening to Beastie Boys while writing this review - shout out to Brooklyn - where Frank Chimero is from. New Year - new Frank portfolio site. It's clean and crisp, minimal, and is featuring his writing. The Library page is a cool idea - and the...
On a side note since this is the last UMS Post of the year - thanks all for a great 2015! See you next year! Each week, we do a round up of curated "stuff from the interwebs" that we call Radar. In this week's 125th Radar: Copying Text From Images to Your Clipboard...
Here's a clean and interesting way to display movie times for a theater / cinema in Leipzig Germany. It has some moving pieces, but the site is designed simply enough to get to whatever info you need. From the Designer: Clean and mobil optimized Page for the...
Quick good one-pager from Geeky Works out of India. I like how they try to make it a little interactive with entering your name - and it types out a personalized greeting. From the Designer: We recently redesigned our Website and would love to get some feedback from...
This is a good, quick portfolio for graphic designer, Lu Yu, out of Istanbul. It looks like it was built on Semplice - but it also looks like Yu works with Semplice. I like the off-set sections of the home page, and how the project names are attached to the images,...
Good design work out of Rhode Island from Shellshock. Really like the look of the hamburger drawer nav, like the rest of the site, is very clean and easy to navigate. From the Designer: We're a design + digital agency based in Providence, Rhode Island. After a major...
We've done some work for some printing companies (both 2 and 3d) in the past year, and know how hard it can be to merge the design side of a client facing website, with the functionality of an ordering web app. This site from Rush Flyer Printing out of NYC, is a good...
Each week, we do a round up of curated "stuff from the interwebs" that we call Radar. In this week's 124th Radar: The Value of a Digital Project Manager A 2015 DPM Summit Recap The Life of ¶: The History of the Paragraph How can we build a better web experience? By...
I'll admit - it took me a minute to get into this website, The Travel Web Design Agency, by WebbedFeetUK. I like movement on sites, but I wasn't sure if this was too much all at once on-scroll - plus, it's very SEO'd - so that deterred me - since we get a lot.. a...
We've seen and built hundreds of law sites - so always interested to see other's takes lawyer sites. This one for Rocco Law out of Philadelphia, built by Blinebury Design - is very good. It's the small things that get me - besides the compact color scheme, with good...
Good stuff from NewDealDesign out of San Francisco. The site's cool and vibrant - their work is freaking awesome. From the Designer: Matchmaking people, culture and technology, we build joyful physical and digital experiences for innovators big and small. Strategic...
We're not Arsenal fans here at the house, but I still like the work of Ostmodern (even their Arsenal site) out of London. Clean and bright, and not overbearing. From the Designer: Hard for me not to be biased as we designed and built this site! Ostmodern are a 60...
Decent site from Snipcart out of Quebec - one thing I like is the mega-dropdown in the nav - keeps the site cleaner. Also like the line illustrations on each page (and in the nav) - cool. From the Designer: Complete marketing website for Snipcart, a developer-first...
I want one. Cool site from Vinli that allows wifi and apps for your car - I like the movement and quick svg line drawings to give a cool, but light feel to the site. And, um, I want one.
Each week, we do a round up of curated "stuff from the interwebs" that we call Radar. In this week's 123rd Radar: 8 Killer eBooks on UX Design That You Can Get For Free UX design is something very close to our hearts at UsabilityTools, so we’ve scoured the web for you...
Good looking real estate site for Eighty East out of Melbourne, Australia - done by Yoke. I actually like the Chinese version a little better - the characters fit in with the aesthetic of the site even better in that version. Twitter: @welcometoyoke Role: Designer &...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
