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10 Inspiring Websites

James Barclay — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:57:07 +0000

Lately I’ve been spending quite a bit of time designing websites, whether it’s WordPress theme development or Joomla! template design. A huge part of this process, (for me), is finding inspiration. Below are 10 carefully crafted examples of good web design that I’ve been inspired by as of late.

31THREE

Kyle Florence

A List Apart

Buffalo

Design by Silnt

FullAhead

Viget

thinkdesign

Ed Merritt

ThemeShaper

Logo guessing game

James Barclay — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 02:33:53 +0000

How quickly can you recognize a corporate identity? I recently found an article on GraphicDesignBlog.org that makes an interesting game out of it. They display a small fraction of the logo and you are to guess the corporation associated with that identity. I knew all but three right off the bat. Can you guess which one’s I missed?

I find that the best and most memorable logos almost always pass this test. Number six is a great example, (only a miniscule portion of the logo is displayed, yet I was able to determine the identity almost immediately).

American Airlines site redesign

James Barclay — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:54:48 +0000

I heard about a week ago that someone had done a mockup of a possible redesign for the American Airlines website, and the first thing I did was take a look at their existing site. It’s unbelievable to me that such a huge corporation with so many resources could produce such a terrible, unusable site. I for one haven’t ever needed to use the site, but a user interface designer named Dustin Curtis has, (which inspired him to create the mockup.) The redesign is visually interesting as well as functional. You should read more about it/take a look at it here.