Examples of Extreme Minimalism in Web Design • Hacker News Board

Re: Examples of Extreme Minimalism in Web Design

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Post by domodomo » Thu, Jul 23, 2009, 2:08 AM UTC

michaelfairley wrote: post #3

(Not mentioned) My personal favorite: http://www.hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com...

Thoughtful comment in source:

Re: Examples of Extreme Minimalism in Web Design

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Post by richcollins » Thu, Jul 23, 2009, 2:27 AM UTC

mrlebowski wrote: post #2

I found most of these sites to be pretty low on content...

Yes, they are confusing the two. We have a minimal shopping site (http://stylous.com/) that is not minimal on content.

My co-founder, Steve Dekorte, is the primary designer. His blog uses a minimal design without being minimal on content (http://dekorte.com/blog/blog.cgi) as does his programming language (http://www.iolanguage.com/).

Re: Examples of Extreme Minimalism in Web Design

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Post by smokinn » Thu, Jul 23, 2009, 2:28 AM UTC

tapostrophemo wrote: post #10

dkokelley wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are quite a few basic grammar sites that could (and probably should) be developed. Their, There, They're. We're, were. i before e... The correct spelling of many common words.

My personal pet peeve: s/independant/independent/g

You're and your

I especially love when someone says something along the lines of: Your so stupid.

Re: Examples of Extreme Minimalism in Web Design

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Post by lennysan » Thu, Jul 23, 2009, 3:23 AM UTC

Nice, they mentioned my site (simplecountrycodes.com)! I got some awesome feedback from HN on the design of that, so thanks everyone :)

Re: Examples of Extreme Minimalism in Web Design

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Post by anigbrowl » Thu, Jul 23, 2009, 3:47 AM UTC

30 examples is a bit high; many of these are just clones of each other or similarly unremarkable. Alittle selectivity wouldn't hurt... Still, it's better than their list of 105(!) twitter webapps.

Re: Examples of Extreme Minimalism in Web Design

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Post by tremendo » Thu, Jul 23, 2009, 8:14 AM UTC

seldo wrote: post #5

I love d-e-f-i-n-i-t-e-l-y.com the best. I should register a site that explains the difference between principle and principal.

I like that websight. I'll send emale to it's author with mor suggestions.

Re: Examples of Extreme Minimalism in Web Design

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Post by finebanana » Thu, Jul 23, 2009, 8:27 AM UTC

this is dumb http://istwitterdown.com/ but this is dumber http://isistwitterdown.com/

Re: Examples of Extreme Minimalism in Web Design

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Post by potatolicious » Thu, Jul 23, 2009, 9:15 AM UTC

richcollins wrote: post #12

mrlebowski wrote: post #2

I found most of these sites to be pretty low on content...

Yes, they are confusing the two. We have a minimal shopping site ( http://stylous.com/ ) that is not minimal on content. My co-founder, Steve Dekorte, is the primary designer. His blog uses a minimal design without being minimal on content ( http://dekorte.com/blog/blog.cgi ) as does his programming language ( http://www.iolanguage.com/ ).

Just wanted to comment on how elegant your site is - it's almost a work of art I think. That being said, does being simple and elegant sacrifice the ability to cross-sell other products simultaneously?

Re: Examples of Extreme Minimalism in Web Design

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Post by thomasfl » Thu, Jul 23, 2009, 10:58 AM UTC

More focus on typography and less focus on graphics continues to be the trend.

Re: Examples of Extreme Minimalism in Web Design

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Post by pbhjpbhj » Thu, Jul 23, 2009, 11:36 AM UTC

All of the pages (that I checked) look pretty minimal for me - I'm using links2 to browse at the moment. At least one, #12 IIRC (no tabs!), is using /#pagename for page links; presumably for SEO but giving nothing for non-javascript users.

I guess if you're after an accessible site then you're not going to go with them.