Inspiration Package: 60+ Usable & Elegant Designs
We all love beautiful, usable and impressive web designs. To achieve them, web developers need to focus on many aspects, but basically it all boils down to the question, how well the content is presented and how easily the information can be perceived. Harmonic color schemes are as important as solid and consistent typography. Precise visual structure and intuitive navigation are essential for both usability and accessibility. In fact, mostly it’s a keen attention to small details which gives web-sites a profound and enduring nature.
We’ve selected some more of them. Over 60 elegant, usable and impressive designs with a well thought-out color scheme, typography and visual structure. Their beauty lies in the way the information is presented. Their usability lies in the way they communicate presented data. That’s what makes them different.
Next week we’ll present the .pdf-version of this showcase. You might be willing to check out further showcasese we’ve presented before – you’ll find the links at the bottom of the article.
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Inspiration Package:
80+ Elegant and Usable Designs
1. 31Three
2. North x East
5. CodeIgniter
7. Pop Labs
8. nPanorama.ru
11. Mike McFarlane Landscape Photography
12. Pearsonified
13. BlogMinistry
14. html life
15. Infected-FX
16. Devlounge
19. Infekta
20. Stoodeo
22. Koder
24. WorkOne Central
25. Rifidi | Software Defined RFID
26. Pixel House
27. ~ VEDA ~ Healthy Indian Takeout & Eatery
28. Gaby Lopez
29. Versions – Mac Subversion Client
30. Ted Lermontov
31. Pozycjonowanie INHEAD Krakow
32. WorkHabit.org
33. Sonze
34. Corporate Image
35. Frazier Media
36. KellerAdv
37. Made by Cocoon
38. elan3.com
39. Erratic Wisdom
40. Design View / Andy Rutledge
43. Pownce
44. Waggener Edstrom Worldwide
45. WallCandyArt
Artwork
47. anixstudio.
48. Blues Sklep
49. plasq.com
50. sr28 Web Design
Remarkable Designs
51. Warpspire
52. MacZone
55. Palm, Inc.
56. Dion.nu Design
59. Startup Search
60. Footnote
61. troovy
63. JoshLockhart.com
Flash Designs
Further Design Showcases
You can find more inspiration in the following showcases we’ve published before:
Rob
July 13th, 2007 6:17 amI hate to join the nay-sayers, but I have to agree that I didn’t find much inspiration in this list.
So many of them look the same, and the ones that are unique have little to do with the design of the site and more to do with the use of a great photo.
Forest
July 14th, 2007 4:08 amMuy bonitos, creo que tendré que utilizar algunos de esos diseños. Jajaja :)
Gracias..
Deelip
July 15th, 2007 3:05 pmIts a nice list and huge list.
Sites are cool but I was tired of scrolling the page to button hehe.
AJ
July 17th, 2007 4:20 amAlex #43, thanks for your comments; you expressed my thoughts on this issue in a more articulate way than I’d ever be able to!
Rajesh Talageri
July 17th, 2007 3:13 pmThis is awesome! The most comprehensive list of inspiring designs. Thank you God! :)
Dragoslav Lazarevic
July 18th, 2007 10:56 pmReally great job. Design is subjective, but some of those sites are among best on web. Once again, great job!!!
Dragoslav Lazarevic
July 18th, 2007 11:06 pmGreat job. Design is subjective, but some of those sites are among the best on internet. Not all, however, and no one expected that. Some of them are really inspirational. Once again, great job!
Martin
July 19th, 2007 2:17 amCool web sites!
tks
Calvin
July 19th, 2007 4:46 amI Think the sites looks great . . but yeah after zooming in a couple of them, they look very much the same yeah . . . sometimes i got a feeling that everyone is kinda copying . . the web 2.0 hype probably:
1. Drop shadows
2. shiny plastic . . on . . yeah like everything you can imagine?
Dara
July 19th, 2007 5:26 pmI really, really like it. Thank god someone is showcasing clean, light, functional, well-designed css sites for once !
If I see anymore ‘flash’ sites I’m going to explode. Those things have no place on the web if you ask me. They’re clunky, over-designed and impervious to indexing …
Good work guys ! :-) Keep it up …
MsMack
July 22nd, 2007 10:05 pmI’m not in the design industry, but I am looking for a clean and simple design for a site that I’d like to have built for my small LLC. Finding a designer who isn’t obsessed with dazzle and overstimulation has been difficult, so this post is encouraging (as are some of the responses). Perhaps someone knows a designer who needs some experience and has a has an interest in designing for me. Drop a line: TheMsMack.@mac.com
Richard
July 25th, 2007 2:08 amThis is great, thanks
agsu
July 25th, 2007 7:40 pmI honestly am getting bored with this web 2.0 style… Almost all of these sites look like they have been made by the same designer. They are so similar and boring.
I mean don’t get me wrong, they are all well made and everything, but none of them is very inspiring…
themegarden.org
August 2nd, 2007 5:53 pmNice collection.
Probably, I would choose some others, but it’s a question about taste.
Really useful, thanks.
Christopher James
August 10th, 2007 7:59 amOk, I just gotta say one thing; Wow… How many people that actually “complained” on this topic about how “Not Inspirational” these designs are… When in fact they all complained about the same thing (Layout). However, inspriation is more than just a layout and css and bla bla bla. It can be colors, icons, text, colors of headers and fonts used. Now lets just say, 60 designs, each having different icons, different fonts, layouts, colors and yet people can say they found “no inspiration” from them? With all that said, I dont think its a matter of being inspired at all, its more of a matter of being rude or “I can do better” but cant back it up with proof.
Sincerely,
Christopher James
Richard
August 16th, 2007 10:00 pmThese designs are OK, but I agree with those who have suggested that the [i]primary[/i] importance placed on the notions “web standards” and “web2.0 style” agendas is now producing some very bland, joyless, unoriginal, albeit proficient sites.
Jennifer
September 4th, 2007 4:18 pmGreat! I learned a lot here all the time!
Osvaldo Osorio
October 31st, 2007 12:30 amWow!, amazin stuff, thank you, guys!
Amy Jane
November 20th, 2007 7:44 pmI think some of these are really great with nice attention to detail, but some are rather bland.
Most actually look better in the screenshot than they do in the live site.
Just my opinion….. :)
Andre L. Soares
November 26th, 2007 8:52 amWonderful. Just beatifull templates. Congratulations!
Edi
December 29th, 2007 12:45 amvery nice article love the design
Shek
February 10th, 2008 10:25 amJust one question: how do you decide all of the above websites are usable?
Rodrigo Oviedo
February 18th, 2008 11:19 amfelicitaciones por la busqueda de paginas, estan muy buenas, paginas como estas amplian el mundo de los diseñadores web, muchas gracias por compartir este conocimiento tan especifico, sigan asi.
suraj
April 8th, 2008 9:44 amcool ones…really awesome designs
sunny beach
July 6th, 2008 1:43 pmOne word that describes them best: BEAUTIFUL
Raitolita
June 25th, 2009 10:59 pmThanks! :)
OSNI BOKA
July 6th, 2009 7:11 amSUCESSO !…, ABRAÇOS. BOKA.
Zubair Amjad
February 4th, 2010 2:56 amGreat Work! Really great job. Thanks for Sharing
Freelance Web Designer
Ahmed Rabieh
February 23rd, 2010 9:04 amCool Staff , I Like it !
regards,
Ahmed Rabieh
MAxi
December 3rd, 2010 1:18 amMuy bueno todoo
Jason Groenewald
October 17th, 2011 9:38 amIt is always good to find articles like this…. very interesting.