Inspiration Package: 60+ Usable & Elegant Designs

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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.

Inspiration Package:
80+ Elegant and Usable Designs

1. 31Three

Beautiful Designs - 31Three - The Design Studio of Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain

2. North x East

Beautiful Designs - 12 Ways to Turn a Boring Post into Pure Gold at Weekly Articles About Blogging - NxE

3. Youtilize.com

Beautiful Designs - Youtilize.com - technology, web development and entrepreneurship

4. Oaktree Creative

Beautiful Designs - Oaktree Creative: The pixels, prose and portfolio of Chuck Mallott

5. CodeIgniter

Beautiful Designs - CodeIgniter - Open source PHP web application framework

6. WebRevolutionary

Beautiful Designs - WebRevolutionary — The semi-coherent ramblings of a web addict.

7. Pop Labs

Beautiful Designs - Search Marketing and Social Media Consulting - Pop Labs - Pop Labs

8. nPanorama.ru

Beautiful Designs -

9. Creative Binge

Beautiful Designs - Creative Binge - Online Creative Portfolios

10. Designwise Studios

Beautiful Designs - Designwise Studios ~ Accessible, Simple, and Elegant Web Solutions

11. Mike McFarlane Landscape Photography

Beautiful Designs - Welcome - Mike McFarlane Landscape Photography

12. Pearsonified

Beautiful Designs - Best Damn Blog on the Planet — Pearsonified

13. BlogMinistry

Beautiful Designs - BlogMinistry

14. html life

Beautiful Designs - html life

15. Infected-FX

Beautiful Designs - Infected-FX | tutoriales, photoshop brushes y recursos para diseñadores web

16. Devlounge

Beautiful Designs - Devlounge : A resource for designers and developers

17. Putput Comunicacions

Beautiful Designs - Putput Comunicacions

18. Savana webhosting

Beautiful Designs - Savana webhosting - levný hosting s pohodlnou administrací

19. Infekta

Beautiful Designs - Infekta - Home

20. Stoodeo

Beautiful Designs - Website Development Services - Stoodeo

21. Microsoft Corporation

Beautiful Designs - Microsoft Corporation

22. Koder

Beautiful Designs - Kodér - Domů | Vy designujete, my kódujeme do posledního detailu

23. Tappity: Mobile Homepage

Beautiful Designs - Tappity: Mobile Homepage

24. WorkOne Central

Beautiful Designs - WorkOne Central

25. Rifidi | Software Defined RFID

Beautiful Designs - Rifidi | Software Defined RFID

26. Pixel House

Beautiful Designs - Gold Coast Web Site Design - Pixel House

27. ~ VEDA ~ Healthy Indian Takeout & Eatery

Beautiful Designs - ~ VEDA ~ Healthy Indian Takeout & Eatery

28. Gaby Lopez

Beautiful Designs - Gaby Lopez

29. Versions – Mac Subversion Client

Beautiful Designs - Versions - Mac Subversion Client

30. Ted Lermontov

Beautiful Designs - Ted Lermontov : Web Designer

31. Pozycjonowanie INHEAD Krakow

Beautiful Designs - Pozycjonowanie INHEAD Kraków

32. WorkHabit.org

Beautiful Designs - WorkHabit.org

33. Sonze

Beautiful Designs - Sonze

34. Corporate Image

Beautiful Designs - Corporate Image – Logo, Graphic Design, Website Development, Web Marketing Consultant, Melbourne, Sydney, Australia

35. Frazier Media

Beautiful Designs - Frazier Media

36. KellerAdv

Beautiful Designs - KellerAdv - Agenzia di Pubblicità  - Comunicazione - Marketing - Latina

37. Made by Cocoon

Beautiful Designs - Welcome to Made by Cocoon | Made by Cocoon

38. elan3.com

Beautiful Designs - elan3.com : Tim Sears' blog and personal site of web and .NET development.

39. Erratic Wisdom

Beautiful Designs - Erratic Wisdom

40. Design View / Andy Rutledge

Beautiful Designs - Design View / Andy Rutledge

41. Systima Technology

Beautiful Designs - Systima Technology - Creative Solutions on the Isle of Wight

42. Eden Creative Communities

Beautiful Designs - Eden Creative Communities

43. Pownce

Beautiful Designs - Pownce

44. Waggener Edstrom Worldwide

Beautiful Designs - Home | Waggener Edstrom Consumer Group | Waggener Edstrom Worldwide

45. WallCandyArt

Beautiful Designs - WallCandyArt

Artwork

46. EMS | Matthew Soriano

Beautiful Designs - EMéS | The online portfolio of Matthew Soriano

47. anixstudio.

Beautiful Designs - anixstudio.

48. Blues Sklep

Beautiful Designs - Blues Sklep – Live Blues and Jazz music

49. plasq.com

Beautiful Designs - plasq.com - Main >

50. sr28 Web Design

Beautiful Designs - sr28 Web Design, Houston based Web Designer and Illustrator Simon Reynolds

Remarkable Designs

51. Warpspire

Beautiful Designs - Warpspire: Web, Design and Code Geekery

52. MacZone

Beautiful Designs - MacZone - prvý a najväčší on-line obchod pre celú platformu Mac

53. The 5th Avenue Theatre

Beautiful Designs - Welcome to The 5th Avenue Theatre

54. The Knowledge Well

Beautiful Designs - The Knowledge Well

55. Palm, Inc.

Beautiful Designs - Palm, Inc., Your Destination for Handhelds, Mobile Managers, Smartphones, Accessories and Software Titles

56. Dion.nu Design

Beautiful Designs - Dion.nu Design | Dion's Weblog 3.0 | Weblog of Dion Kesling. Designer in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

57. FreeSwell Studios

Beautiful Designs - FreeSwell Studios | Creative, Web Design and Development, Kailua Honolulu Oahu Hawaii

58. Knoxville Life Church

Beautiful Designs - Knoxville Life Church

59. Startup Search

Beautiful Designs - Startup Search. Directory of web technology startups.

60. Footnote

Beautiful Designs - Footnote - The place for original documents online

61. troovy

Beautiful Designs - troovy | the world just got a bit smaller.

62. FF Maria Raisenmarkt

Beautiful Designs - FF Maria Raisenmarkt |www.ff-raisenmarkt.at|

63. JoshLockhart.com

Beautiful Designs - JoshLockhart.com | Effective Web Applications & Rapidweaver Themes

Flash Designs

64. Made by Mark Dearman

Beautiful Designs - Made by Mark Dearman

Further Design Showcases

You can find more inspiration in the following showcases we’ve published before:

Co-Founder of Smashing Magazine. Former writer, web designer, freelancer and webworker. Author of several books.

  1. 101

    I 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.

    +1
  2. 102

    Muy bonitos, creo que tendré que utilizar algunos de esos diseños. Jajaja :)
    Gracias..

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  3. 103

    Its a nice list and huge list.
    Sites are cool but I was tired of scrolling the page to button hehe.

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  4. 104

    Alex #43, thanks for your comments; you expressed my thoughts on this issue in a more articulate way than I’d ever be able to!

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  5. 105

    Rajesh Talageri

    July 17th, 2007 3:13 pm

    This is awesome! The most comprehensive list of inspiring designs. Thank you God! :)

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  6. 106

    Dragoslav Lazarevic

    July 18th, 2007 10:56 pm

    Really great job. Design is subjective, but some of those sites are among best on web. Once again, great job!!!

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  7. 107

    Dragoslav Lazarevic

    July 18th, 2007 11:06 pm

    Great 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!

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  8. 108

    Cool web sites!
    tks

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  9. 109

    I 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?

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  10. 110

    I 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 …

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  11. 111

    I’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

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  12. 112

    This is great, thanks

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  13. 113

    I 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…

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  14. 114

    themegarden.org

    August 2nd, 2007 5:53 pm

    Nice collection.
    Probably, I would choose some others, but it’s a question about taste.

    Really useful, thanks.

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  15. 115

    Christopher James

    August 10th, 2007 7:59 am

    Ok, 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

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  16. 116

    These 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.

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  17. 117

    Great! I learned a lot here all the time!

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  18. 118

    Wow!, amazin stuff, thank you, guys!

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  19. 119

    I 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….. :)

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  20. 120

    Andre L. Soares

    November 26th, 2007 8:52 am

    Wonderful. Just beatifull templates. Congratulations!

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  21. 121

    very nice article love the design

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  22. 122

    Just one question: how do you decide all of the above websites are usable?

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  23. 123

    felicitaciones 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.

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  24. 124

    cool ones…really awesome designs

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  25. 125

    One word that describes them best: BEAUTIFUL

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  26. 126

    Thanks! :)

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  27. 127

    SUCESSO !…, ABRAÇOS. BOKA.

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  28. 128

    Great Work! Really great job. Thanks for Sharing
    Freelance Web Designer

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  29. 129

    Cool Staff , I Like it !

    regards,
    Ahmed Rabieh

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  30. 130

    Muy bueno todoo

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  31. 131

    Jason Groenewald

    October 17th, 2011 9:38 am

    It is always good to find articles like this…. very interesting.

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  1. 1

    I 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.

    +1

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