Inspiring Websites
Sites I’ve found that I really enjoy, tagged with what I find interesting about them. Some have great typography, others just have a solid newsletter signup section. Most recent sites I’ve added to the list are at the top.
2022
2021
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Neuralink
Scientific, official, grid-based
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torinodesign.info
Dictionary type site with lots of text in a grid
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Designer as Writer
A unique way to design an article or blog post (Interactive Essay)
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GOOD Meat
Fun way to tell a story
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Open
Creative side-scrolling events calendar
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Jones Knowles Ritchie
The work this agency produces is top notch 💯
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Benji Taylor
New take on a side navigation
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Brian Lovin
A fantastic feed that highlights personal events on a timeline
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State of Design in 2021
Great interactive new way to layout a blog post
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Design+Code
An unoriginal snapshot of recent trends
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A Year Later, Wuhan
Great and original blog post intro
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Commonwealth Fusion Systems
Modern, high-tech
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ChungiYoo
Very fluid, and smooth
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Arda Karacizmeli
Unique hover effects for links
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Provider Store
Great store/shop, easy to navigate
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Hazelnut Cafe
Enticing product page
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Raycast - Changelog
Great changelog / timeline of events interpretation
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TurboVax
Simple, clean, straight to the point
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Buy a Clubhouse Invite
Simple & clean
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Fabo Toth
Hi-tech, Ex-Machina like, futuristic and dark
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Sgrappa
This whole site is really different and new
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Indieground
Well laid-out dark market
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Château Boll
Great branding and overall design system
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Augusto Lopes
Great hover states
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Cameron McNab
Bright, clean, and open
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Oni Icons
Dark, great for downloadable assets or full width grids
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Behalf Of
Super simple gradient background
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Michael Warren
Super basic and simple portfolio
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Coffee Supreme Online Store
White grid layout that breaks the usual grid layout
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Tempo
Clean, white site
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Plácido Salazar
Unorthodox, but I like it
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Acte
Very large and bold
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Plant Care
Fun plant guide site
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Aaron Shapiro
Great portfolio site
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Richard Sancho Design Director
Fun interactive hero with sound, fancy typography
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Rafael Derolez
Super simple and clean 1-page portfolio site
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PIxelhop
Well built internet creative agency site
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Grainne Morton
Solid boutique craft store
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Anagram Club
Clean portfolio site with smooth transitions
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Connell & McFadden
Modern Architecture Brand
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Posthuman
Interesting dashboard concept
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Studio Ping Pong
Engaging game concept that acts as a fun landing page for the site
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Hourly rates are the worst
Not a good article, but a great bold typeface on a dark background
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Possible Objects
Great, fun, and different product shots
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Typelist
Fun record / vinyl selector idea
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DWARF
Solid timeline concept
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Studio Family
Great dark site and dark vibes overall with the imagery
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Flexe
Lots of great elements here on a dark background
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NGS Malhas
Great storytelling site
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Sometimes Always
Stellar branding
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The Blue Posts
Super unique building idea with vertical layouts
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MARRAM
Clean, modern, fresh new layout ideas
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JO/GA Design
Great body of work to pull inspiration from that is similar to mine
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66°Nord
Everything is just really well done here. In contention for favorite site of 2021
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Kieran Parker
Well thought out and organized portfolio site
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Joshua Kaplan
Great body of work in this portfolio site
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Revolut
Apple-like card design
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Thyme
Classical, high-class, beautifully put together site
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Hotel Peter & Paul
Engaging intro to the story
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Leaf Envy
Great plant shop
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Seed • The Evolution of Probiotics
Parallax scrolling effects done right
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Stripe Press
Cool 3D library book structure
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La luce alpina
Really cool colored boxes navigation at the top of the page
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Munro Partners
Clean, Modern and simple
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Culture Next: 2021 by Spotify
Could be a cool VR / AR concept
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Ryan Mack
Great portfolio site
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Cowboy Bike
Just a cool electric bike product
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Hyperframe
Expensive, modern, and professional vibes
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Clay
Professional, modern, museum type vibe. Really cool design here honestly
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Musotoku
Open, clean, bold, and fresh. Lime green, black, and white works here.
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Hotel Gilbert
Great overall branding and way to use just one color besides white and black
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Cubitts
Great looking footer block
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Hugging Face
Clean, white, futuristic simple look
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Magician for Sigma
Clean, functional one-pager that's straight to the point
2020 (July - December)
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Reed
Page transitions keep you in the same frame and don't break the experience
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Carla Escribe
Simple site, good for a side project layout
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Hide Bureau
Grid based layout, shows lots of lines
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Ficturo
Another grid based layout, very structured
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Alizée Boutonnet
The typography, layout, and colors all blend together for a very smooth vibe
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CreativeCrew
Graffiti, street art vibe
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The Adrian Brinkerhoff Foundation
Classy, elegant, and intelligent structure
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Kinfolk
Classy, museum style
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Architectural Joinery - Laurence McIntosh
Classy, but not super professional, more like amateur-classy
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Pioneer - Corn Revolutionized
🔥 Favorite site of 2020 so far 🔥
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Chiara Luzzana
Amazing sound designer
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Tobias Ahlin
Doesn't feel like a website, which is refreshing
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WindowSwap
Just a straight-up cool idea.
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Métrica
Unique picture cropping overlay links
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Literal
Feels like a book, could be a great blog post layout
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SimpleHealth
A classic layout with 3-wide columns and large numbers, but done properly.
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Andy Chung
Really neat and different portfolio site
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Typology
Great type hierarchy
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Superico
Exciting, bold restaurant site
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Radiant
Small effects/animations add to the experience
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GlobeKit
Super smooth all-around
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Legacy
Three-column layout with news article-like snippets done right.
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Ayda Oz
Nice color scheme and solid work too 👌
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The Design Shop
Great shop / store layout. Clean and simple.
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The Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation
This is something that I would design. Clean, right amount of space between sections
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Ahmed Yasser
Great spacing
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Tend Dentist
Greta way to represent a new type of business
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Tee Tran
Lots of great elements in this stunning portfolio site
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Rebekah Rhoden
Great colors, great work
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PopCom
Very clean and all on-brand
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Air | Lucid Motors
Smooth, high-fashion, luxury, modern experience
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Arrival
Actually would work better as Powerpoint slides
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AVEC Drinks
Fun product website
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The Oyster & Fish House
Great restaurant branding
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Paloroma
Top notch branding
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Othervice
Super simple, more tells a story than is another run of the mill website
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Viction:ary
Big, bold links on home page
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Humane by Design
Another dark mode site
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Poulos Collective
Amazing modular block-like design. In contention for my favorite site of 2020
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Henrik Larsson
Dark & Structured
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Toast
Very spaced out
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Stupid Studio
Great color scheme and spaced out clean layout
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Redo Bureau
Very cool homepage 3d render
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Atomo Management
Super cool homepage hero section
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Puddle Sound
Clean grey product page
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Dries Bos
Cool glowing, neon link list
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The State of CSS 2020
Great structure and use of a grid
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Italic
Blocky well-aligned site
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The DESK Magazine
Lots of great design elements in this site
2020 (January - June)
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Elena Saharova's Portfolio
Vibes man, vibes.
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The Plant People
"Our Plants" has some great photography
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Gabriel Valdivia's Portfolio
Simple, dark site
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uiBoost
Awesome dark-mode type site
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Knap
Well spaced, dark mobile site
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Greater Goods
Beautiful simple online storefront
- Comet Chat
- Mindbloom
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Muharrem Şenyıl's Portfolio
Great product shots
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Creative Bot
Awesome color scheme
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Fuzzco
Interesting endlessly scrolling concept
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Khroma
Solid color scheme and typography
- Mollie
- Bumblebee
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Illuminating Radioactivity
Great overall design and cool type choices
- Lupii
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Dropmark
Clean & cool blog home page
- Chobani
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Rowan Joseph
Fast and functional
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Catalyst
Awesome, bold, dark site
- Birdseye Design
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Co38 Glaze Spectrum
Well designed interface for a web app
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Design Principles
Large, bold type
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Ism Crafts
Simple, clean, elegant.
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Carbonation
Stellar branding 💯
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Frankie Ratford
Clean, light, bouncy portfolio
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Meet Maev
Excellent overall branding including neon, white, & fancy typography
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Projekte | EHAM
An example of high-class design
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Nottingham Contemporary
Straight up different, but is a great community vibe
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Apple's Coronavirus Screening Tool
Well designed mobile site
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Club of the Waves
Incredibly well thought out and designed site
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Fuck I Wish I Knew That
Greta example of a list of links
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Shape Studio
Some interesting layouts and effects here
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Madies
Extremely smooth animations
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Journal
Perfectly balanced above the fold. Great white space
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Motherlode
This site just feels alive
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Powerhouse Company
Fresh take, sweet idea, great work
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Sonatic
Beautiful background texture
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Dharma
Bright, bold colors
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Queen Garnet
Fantastic branding, super smooth experience
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Spotify for Pets
Smooth transitions upon page load
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Valorant's Promo Page
Awesome style here
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Popdog
Lots of rounded corners
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GOODFISH
Very large text, interesting branding
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Hexagon Agency
Really nice UX and solid block layouts
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Sushiya
I don't know what this is but I like it
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Houses Of
Beautiful, accessible colors
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Mixlegno Group
Incorporates sound wonderfully, uses subtle sounds on button hover
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Haws Watering Cans
Great layout of a product page
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Tenants Archive
Great take on a header component
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Degenesis
Lots of great layout elements
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Bryn Taylor
Sweet colors
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FoundHQ
Animations are nicely timed upon page load
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Junction Creative
Great spacing
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Dsagn
Fantastic Design
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Publish Something Online
Different take on an article layout
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Handwrytten
Handwritten style
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Mode Remote
Example of icons and link lists layouts
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Affinity Portugal
Bright blue color
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Kotki
Interesting movement and scaling effects
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Mackenzie Child
Awesome Logo
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Good Things Pottery
Clean shop layout
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Chestnut Hill Nursery
Organic plant and gardening feel
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new.css
Incredibly simple and elegant
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The Vines
Tells a story
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Toggl
Simple, clean, & fun.
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Novi
Different animations on scroll
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Daily Drawings
Calendar layout for daily tasks
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14islands
Fund with blobs and cursor effects
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BrandLoyal
Nice clean layout that takes the full screen into consideration
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Niklas Rosen
Different and refreshing link list layout
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Ivan Toma
Lovely footer
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My Better Normal
When typing in a text field, they are using the iPhone keyboard sounds 🤯
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Taiwan Design Research Institute (About Page)
Some great design elements here
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Foundation
Some fresh layout blocks here
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Ciao Bella
Fantastic movie promotional website
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Kona Coffee Purveyors
Beautiful, earthy-brand
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MAISON CACAO
Incredible way to tell a story of a brand
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Quarkly
Blocky layout elements
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Open Spaces
Beautiful clam color scheme
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Le Cantiche 1320
Classic oldschoool feel with stellar typography
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Designing a Better Chicago
Top-notch design
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Article from Adobe XD
Great blog post page and related content blocks
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Dore Partnership
Clean layout blocks
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Moon Safari
Fresh take on a website that is actually properly functional
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Porto Rocha
Sidebar chooser layout, full page
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Calmaria
Black & White app promo page
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Superfluid
Incredibly gorgeous hover effects in the section below the hero
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DSX
Nice clip of a mountain in like the 5th section
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Lebassis
Poppy, Colorful, Vibrant
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Stephen Barkan
Amazing portfolio space, beautiful color scheme as well
2019
- Réseau COOP
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0x Instant
very smooth transitions
- GPA Calculator
- VPet Plastics
- Details Design System
- Hochbach
- Cartesiam AI
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Weblium
solid blog layout
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Douglas & Bec
smooth header transition
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Okalpha
ideal mobile type sizes
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Ministry of New
a refreshing take on a website
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CSS IRL
really like the link style
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Serverless
good spacing in content blocks
- Guglielmo Pardo
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Johnny Cupcakes
solid color scheme
- McKinsey & Company
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Starbucks Reserve
branding 💯
- AioCare
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Roman Komarov
extremely fast
- Webflow
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Incredible
great dark site
- RunHunters
- Journal
- Netflix Jobs
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Noissue
a perfect ecommerce experience
- Slovenský Dom
- Bloom Hair
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Azulik
🔥 mobile experience
- Roundglass
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BAM
favorite shade of red for web
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Tochka
fun button styles
- Ark-Shelter
- Design Systems
- Mothership
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Within
typography 💯
- Color of the Year
- Clearleft
- Framer Blog
- Juro
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Lalo
great Q&A layout
- Firstmile
- The Design Shop
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CSS Dev Conference
solid conference website
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Neotribe
favorite site of 2019 so far
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Tens
love the company name
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Unsplash
nice search design that mimics Chrome
- Abuk
- Leaf
- Lusion
- True Ventures
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Sketch Newletter
perfect newsletter signup layout
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Doist - Blog
really nice blog layout
- Farnam Street
- Marsan College
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Clickup - Login
great login page
- Soproq
- Dropbox - Blog
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A Bella Andrade
actually intriguing background video
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Tank Stream Ventures
perfect fading animations
- Rafal Bojar
- Vollerei
- Haus
- WeLive
- Goooders
- Tooploox
- Zinacor
- &Walsh
- Veley & Ross Wedding
- Sumit Hegde
- Super Team Deluxe
- DMC 2019
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Thibaud Allie
fantastic font pairing
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Expa
one-pager
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King & McGaw
nicely spaced text blocks
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Hazelbrook Legal
straight to the point, no fluff
- The Balcony Garden
- Apple iPhone 11 Pro
- Contagious
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Larry Ellison Foundation
Incredibly well-designed
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Plenaire
This site just feels so smooth
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Two Robbers
super fast
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The Gutenberg Site
Great example of Wordpress's Gutenberg
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2nd Street USA
Lots of movement
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Guide to Polish Design
Great layouts on the interior pages
- eDesign USA
- Ahmad Shadeed's Online Studio
- Red Edition
- Brian Lovin
- Rouge Creative Studio
- Old Spitalfields Market
- Misfits Market
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Elements - by Humankind
Interesting grid layout
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Superlative
Great product intro page
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Not Pot CBD Gummies
💯 product site
- Rental Designer
-
we cargo
All the little details create a unified experience
- YML
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From Our Place
Another food-themed site
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Isabelle Fox
High fashion clothing line
- Beauvoir
- True Student
- Daphné Launay Portfolio
- Olumo
- Coco Hotel
- The Hub
- Scribbles
- Worth
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OLIOLI
Solid restaurant site
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Deazy
Great unique style
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The Wonders of Daily Drawing
Super clean
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Yuto Takahashi
Incredible portfolio site
- Princeton University Press
- Index Ventures
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Working From: The Huxton
Modern. Pastel colors, anamorphic vectors
- Open AI
- Pierre Bravoz
2018
- Wonder Wall
- Jess & Russ
- Beercamp
- Milwaukee PD
- Swiss
- Turn is Left Home
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Good
solid blog layout
- Officelovin'
- Owltastic
- Weightshift
- Magic Leap
- React Cheatsheet
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Air France Music
awesome music player
- Ladybird
- PAX
- iOS Design Guidelines
- Clarity
- Okkapi
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Couro Azul
favorite site of 2018
- Julien Renvoye
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Wedze Goggles
great button styles
- JJ Ying
- Retold with Youtube
- Creddy
- Frans Hals Museum
- Faits Marquants
- Techlila - Blog
- Maple From Québec
- Not Another Bill
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Kikk Festival
great festival site
- Cowboy
- Kommigraphics
- ETQ
- Food & Wine
- Article
- Web Effectual
- Couple Diamonds
- GGET
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Story of AMS
solid color scheme
- Undersight
- Octave
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Sea Harvest
beautiful layout
- Saint James Townhomes