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Re: Web design inspiration catalog

#23
Anyone remember a thing called PatternTap?

Used to be the place for web design inspiration. The granddaddy of all web galleries with a focus on design and styling elements. Really well curated, but picky and exclusive as heck. Then came Dribbble, derived directly from it. Followed by the flood of web galleries, design awards and what not. All stemmed from the Tap.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20080725032756/patterntap.com

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20130328040241/patterntap.com

Re: Web design inspiration catalog

#24
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If anyone has additional recommendations of exceptionally well designed e-commerce sites, please share them. I’m looking to build a collection focused on the segment.

As a designer, these are always top of mind for ecommerce design https://www.on-running.com/ https://www.mammut.com/uk/en https://www.patagonia.com/home/

Thanks! That’s exact what I was looking for: great design and usability. And also cool that on-running is a Solidus store, which is the framework I’m working with.

Re: Web design inspiration catalog

#26

I often visit www.awwwards.com for inspiration. In the past there was plenty of these websites i.e. Design is Kinky, etc. I also remember the early css reboots. But I'm going into nostalgia now. :)

You can buy your way into Awwwards. That's literally their business model.

Re: Web design inspiration catalog

#27

If anyone has additional recommendations of exceptionally well designed e-commerce sites, please share them. I’m looking to build a collection focused on the segment.

I like this one. https://www.lingscars.com/

Impeccable

Re: Web design inspiration catalog

#28

Why are the featured screenshoots still desktop-only? FFS it's 2024, we're supposed to be thinking mobile-first, and focusing on experiences for the majority of visitors (i.e., mobile), and yet "inspiration" remains "look at these desktop designs"? When does such irresponsibility become negligence? /rant

I don't think that's fair. We should be going wherever our customers or users are.

If it's mobile—and for most consumer businesses it will be—then design mobile-first. We're an enterprise SaaS company. I tell our designers that we should design responsively, but to design desktop-first, because 90% of our users are using a desktop.

Re: Web design inspiration catalog

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post #19

I can only assume this was posted to HN as ragebait. I think a bunch of these pages look great. I wish my brain could intuitively match typefaces, colours and illustrations in the way some of these pages do, but no, engineer brain go bleep bloop. But let’s be real: they’re way too marketing-y for the HN crowd. Don’t they know we like 10px text and as few margins as possible? Information density, people!

It’s completely marketing, every page I saw was a landing/home page. A lot were just brochure websites for an agency. Maybe I missed it, but would be interesting to see this similar inspiration focus on application UI/UX design. There’s a handful of apps that I just like using / doing work in / interacting with the service. Eg. notion, airtable, figma, and while not a front end guy I’ve spent a lot if time in FE over the years and some of these apps leave me wondering how they managed to get html/css/js to look and behave this way. It’s gone beyond the web2.0 origin which gmail still feels like. Some of these web apps feel like full blown applications and introduce a lot of rather unique/bespoke functionality
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