Archive for the ‘Web Design’ Category
30 Interesting Russian Website Designs
Tedious and very professional sites, that’s what Russian website design are all about. Some of them found inspiration in the old regime and exploited the specific minimal graphic with strong message and deep impact on the subject; even though these particular pages are not elaborate as they are sparkling through graphic and concept, they remain still, very functional, pleasant and powerful tools. Mainly, these guys make an interesting and original object which exploits positively a negative concept (if analyzing a bit the movement).
Overall, the sites bellow represent a collection of confident and smooth lines, with no exaggerated artifice and a very balanced chromatic, very well adapted to each of the subjects they are dedicated to; in this behalf, see also the matrimonial site with no overstated emphasis on unnecessary elements. And I’m no soppy fan of such trends; I just enjoyed the simplicity and the common sense which emerges through this site. A neat and professional approach is enough and very effective, both for those interested in matrimonial services as well as for an accidental visitor which will be, most likely, paying attention to the construction itself.
20 Examples of High Level Typography in Website Design
This article showcases several high-level typography-related sites: fist we’ve looked for sites of excellent typographic artists, logo and type designers or studios, secondly for the sites of agencies or foundations that offer design-related prizes (typography included, of course) and, last but not least, for graphic designers’ sites that display great type graphics in themselves. This article will help you see, therefore, great examples of integrating type into the site-graphics and experimenting with type in web-design.
At the same time it will help you find very professional agencies or designers that create high-quality fonts which you could use in any design project that you have in mind whether it is web, print, identity design, logo etc. It is a great collection that you could check whenever you are searching for ways to integrate your favorite font into your design! You will find here excellent typographic experimentalists or established graphic design agencies that can change the way you see typography.
30 Free Web And Mobile Wireframe Kit in PSD Format
When you are designing the interface of a website, software or other products, you will need some basic elements of the User Interface (UI). If you want to create a prototype for your projects, you can use wireframing kit and UI design kits to give great ideas and do not lose yourself in the details.
In this article I have compiled 30 useful web and mobile user interface kits. All in PSD form that allows you to adjust according to your needs.
20 Playful Interactive Website Design Inspiration
Companies go for the integrated marketing nowadays: all channels are exploited, and the virtual medium has much to offer. Advertising has reached new shores and the targeted clients are more and more skeptical about products. What other environment, if not the exponentially-developing world wide web, is more likely to be more and more competitive as days go by?
The design, the originality, the well-crafted ensemble, the art inspired, are, as this blog sure points out, the prerogative for good competitive sites. Nothing is left out in a world where possibilities are only limited by imagination.
40 Vintage Retro Style Website Design Inspiration
We’ve looked previously at retro illustrations, now let’s see one of the ways you can use them: retro or vintage-style web design. It is a very effective way of creating a striking design for your site, precisely because of the huge contrast between a style that makes you relate to the past perspective on things and the extremely modern and newly technological nature of a web-site. The very phrase retro/vintage site hints to a paradox: one couldn’t have even imagined this kind of technology in the past! Therefore, using a very authentically retro theme for your site would help your visitors see all these daily realities that they’re so used to from a new, unexpected perspective.
If you use successfully the retro design you’ll have great user-experience guaranteed! It’s always going to provoke you a strangely pleasant feeling to see things from our day to day, seemingly ordinary reality, like Youtube, RSS, Twitter, or the email dressed in this crumpled, slightly rusty coat of the past. As you’ll see in all the sites displayed here, the secret is obtaining a special atmosphere for your site, making all the retro elements that you choose come together in an authentic and original way.
20 Websites With High Level of User Experiences
User experience (UX) is subjective. It’s all about how a specific user experiences a particular website, the content it contains, how easy it is to navigate, how fast it loads and generally how enjoyable and satisfying it is to use. One man’s dream site is another man’s nightmare, so please forgive me if the 20 sites I highlight below are at odds with your perception of superlative UX.
The sites I have chosen, some that you’ll know, others that you won’t, all look great, perform a specific function better than any of their competitors, and do so with style and technical finesse. Shops, browser-based apps, social networking tools, search engines, online magazines and much more, I’ve covered all the bases here. If you’ve got any more suggestions, leave a comment and let me know.
30 Amazing Corporate Website Designs
This post shows corporate pages, pages with simple yet elegant designs. It is considered as a corporate trend, to look smart. The layout, as well as the text, expresses very suggestive and clear ideas: a company has a mission and through the immediate image they try to expose if not the whole concept of their mission, at least an attractive key point which best describes their activity, a distinctive plus. Usually the appearance of this distinctive note is quite discreet, by taking the shape of a more simple design than what we’ve exploited in our previous articles.
In fact, the message has to be clear and a minimal, stylish web design is the best approach; a very colorful or crowded home page would make the visitor focus on other aspects, rather than the corporation itself (and its mission).
27 Weekly Best WordPress Themes from ThemeForest
The themes from ThemeForest posted this week are, as the previous set, classy and well cropped. The simple but fancy line is still present, with quaint variations from now on, or designated attributes which outline the line of focus: either a corporate, personal, elaborate or a minimal design; all of them fitted approaches for blog or web pages themes which are desired to be easy to maneuver as well as to admire by visitors. Pages load easily and are pleasant to the eye without exposing it to an exaggerated amount of visual stimulus.
Moreover, the theme presented speaks not only for the user, but also for the designer, as an appanage or symbol of its personal brand. Here after, a series of such themes have been selected, starting from the smooth and elegant views drawn in pastel or just “simply” minimal to the more laborious or a bit extravagant ones.
30 Glamorous Fashion Designer Website Designs
We’ll be looking now at a great collection featuring the best fashion designers’ sites. The tendency in this kind of sites, much similar with the photographers’ sites that we’ve seen before, is to let the images of the designer’s creation speak for themselves. Therefore, the photos or videos of the fashion collections and fashion shows tend to expand all over the screen and become, again, the main element of the site. The rest of the site graphics is subtle and elegant most of the times in order not to compete with the collection images on display.
Of course, there are also some sites whose graphics are densely drawn or collaged, but in a way that is closely related to the designer’s personal style. Most of the sites are in Flash and they are quite dynamic but the main feature is combining the moving video image with the site graphics in an interesting and original way.
23 Unconventional eCommerce Website Designs
The snapshots gathered within this collection refer to a category of web designers that is willing to invest a great deal of resources in the looks of their pages. Ecommerce sites are very elaborate and striking original. Actually, these are the sites which participate and win web design contests which ensures them not only prestige – by the seriousness of the presentation – but also a greater number of potential clients which are put face to face not only with magnificent looks and presentation but, willingly or not, also with the concept behind the design.
Of course, what is so provocative about this concept is the interactivity. Once loaded, the page provokes us to explores its corners, if not even invite us inside a miniature world where we are free to explore all corners at wish; usually this liberty is granted once the page has loaded (it might be a bit frustrating for users with not very advanced machineries) and faced you with a demonstrative “performance” which is meant to grasp your interest.
