The Whimsical Website Club
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The Whimsical Website Club
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#2honestly it's quite exciting when things like this pop up in my news feed. I could spend a couple of hours binge clicking links and discovering new sites.
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#3You might also like the Weird Wide Webring
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#4Doing a shameless plug, but if you like this, check my project https://www.waveguide.io/patterns/all | I document a bunch of software (web, mobile and sometime real life) user experience patterns.
I also document a bunch of other stuff like screenshots of different websites and try to classify them in a meaningful way.
Still a long way to go for this to become what I want it to be but it might be helpful for someone here. Here is the landing page to understand a little bit better what I'm trying to do with this: https://www.waveguide.io/
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#5This is so very beautiful! Pure joy to click through each one of those websites.
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#6This feels like I got off a well-travelled freeway and got on the beautiful and quirky back-roads, seeing a whole different side of the web.
It's also making me realize how dependent† I've become on search engines. Don't get me wrong, they are great at what they do, but seeing these curated list of sites definitely reminds me of the late 90's where directories were still a thing.
†: ie. lazy.
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#7This feels like I got off a well-travelled freeway and got on the beautiful and quirky back-roads, seeing a whole different side of the web. It's also making me realize how dependent† I've become on search engines. Don't get me wrong, they are great at what they do, but seeing these curated list of sites definitely reminds me of the late 90's where directories were still a thing. †: ie. lazy.
Max's previous post [1] touches on the some of the ideas from the early 90s internet that we're starting to see return today.
I'm personally most excited to to watch the return and rise of niche self-run communities that were greatly supressed during the early days of social media.
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#8Doing a shameless plug, but if you like this, check my project https://www.waveguide.io/patterns/all | I document a bunch of software (web, mobile and sometime real life) user experience patterns. I also document a bunch of other stuff like screenshots of different websites and try to classify them in a meaningful way. Still a long way to go for this to become what I want it to be but it might be helpful for someone…
I didn't have a chance to dive too deeply but I just signed up.
Thanks for the work and sharing!!
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#9Doing a shameless plug, but if you like this, check my project https://www.waveguide.io/patterns/all | I document a bunch of software (web, mobile and sometime real life) user experience patterns. I also document a bunch of other stuff like screenshots of different websites and try to classify them in a meaningful way. Still a long way to go for this to become what I want it to be but it might be helpful for someone…
Whilst the work you're doing is commendable, it feels like the complete opposite of the whimsical website.
The whimsical website club aims to "showcase how a more personal web could look", and highlights the weird, unique, and non-traditional things about these creative's websites. The whole idea is about moving away from corporate boringness.
Waveguide, meanwhile, seems to be covering very 'corporate' UX patterns that could (and should?) be used in the business world.
Those things seem completely different and at odds with each other, so I'm not really sure why you think waveguide is related (other than wanting to self-promote for it's own sake?).
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#10I love this so much.
Software has gotten so boring. OSX used to have a ton of fun weird little things (like the poof when you removed an app) that have all been removed. Same with Google. I miss it.
One of our company values is "Err on the side of whimsy," and it's my far my favorite one... life's too short to not make things a bit weird fun and interesting.
(Also, for people who haven't seen it, also check out https://littlebigdetails.com/ )