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Re: Web design inspiration catalog

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Post by chiefalchemist »

samsolomon wrote: post #28
chiefalchemist wrote: post #20

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.

Fair? I don't make the internet. But to answer you directly: then the site should be promoted as *desktop* inspiration.

But it's not just this site, is it? FE developers and FE engineers think mobile-first, and yet the designers' default is still desktop (when it's often the minority, and fading). What could go wrong?

Re: Web design inspiration catalog

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Post by ecommerceguy »

conductr wrote: post #29
afavour wrote: 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…

It took me at least 5 minutes to figure out culture amp is a survey company.

Re: Web design inspiration catalog

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Post by CuriouslyC »

afavour wrote: 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!

10pt font is just bad because there are too many combinations of device/person where it's nearly illegible. It's fine for fine print and redundant captions but you shouldn't go below 11 for paragraphs in most cases.

Also, even if you're an information density nerd you need tactical whitespace that helps you quickly jump to the right text box.

Re: Web design inspiration catalog

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Post by zerkten »

afavour wrote: 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!

I think it would be improved by focusing on specific elements or patterns. These look pretty but there are deficient elements in some of the designs. With more guidance (the job of the site, but it's too minimalist right now) you can spot the elements which do stand out.

I struggled with what you describe and art/design more generally. I started photography as a tech person and naturally gravitated to being a gear head. Now I still shoot with my ancient Canon EOS 7d and it's much more relaxing. I only got there by doing everything by making hard break from looking at the technical aspects, avoiding certain forums, finding photo walks without gearheads, etc.

With time I started to appreciate other elements of design and be able to put things together without the feelings that existed before. I'm not sure if there is a particular psychological description of this. There is definitely an element of my anxiety at play though.

The 10px and margins get to me too. I'm probably better at articulating my views now with designers that results in productive outcomes. If designers only have the ear of the CEO though it's a lost cause.

Re: Web design inspiration catalog

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Post by Hendrikto »

afavour wrote: 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!

I think most of them look extremely generic and boring. They are beautiful, sure, but very standard at the same time.

Re: Web design inspiration catalog

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Post by warpech »

huhtenberg wrote: post #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/patter…

I have kind memories of Styleboost, TheFWA, K10K... I wish I also know PatternTap back then.

Re: Web design inspiration catalog

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Post by whstl »

ecommerceguy wrote: post #32
conductr wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

It took me at least 5 minutes to figure out culture amp is a survey company.

That's a bit reductionist.

It is clearly a company doesn't want to be lumped together with Typeform, Surveymonkey or Google Forms, so it's positioning itself as a "employee engagement, performance and development tools". They want to sell tooling that is specific to HRs and other people that might have the desire for those specific tools.

I get the desire for boxing things in 10 or 20 neat categories, but companies (and especially those that have a sales team) are often looking to differentiate themselves.

Whether they are able to execute this well remains to be seen, naturally.

Re: Web design inspiration catalog

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Post by fowkswe »

warpech wrote: post #36
huhtenberg wrote: post #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/patter…

I have kind memories of Styleboost, TheFWA, K10K... I wish I also know PatternTap back then.

Linkedup, Design is Kinky, News Today. I miss those days of the web.

Re: Web design inspiration catalog

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Post by technojunkie »

There's not a lot of examples provided, but the ones there are interesting. Also, why the tracking with Yandex? They might be legit, but it's suspect.

This reminds me of many other gallery sites, but one of the best right now is https://httpster.net/. Lots of inspiring, minimalist, but beautiful websites.

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