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It goes without saying, but good design does not equal good UX. A problem I have with places like Awwwards is that the sites they highlight look good from the s
by mnicole 14y ago
It goes without saying, but good design does not equal good UX. A problem I have with places like Awwwards is that the sites they highlight look good from the screenshot, but navigating them and getting to the core intent isn't as easy as it should be. Most of these 'design inspiration' sites are really just people picking submissions from agencies and freelancers, rather than aggregating an honestly good list of sites that do their job.
Your best bet is to go through these types of sites and familiarize yourself with patterns that make it easy for you to understand what is going on. In addition to the siteinspire link posted by athesyn, I visit these every day (in order of how original the content is):
http://www.siiimple.com/ http://www.siiimple.com/
http://www.designfridge.co.uk/ http://www.designfridge.co.uk/
http://www.colorgorize.com/ http://www.colorgorize.com/
http://www.verynicesites.com/ http://www.verynicesites.com/
http://www.webcreme.com/ http://www.webcreme.com/
http://bm.straightline.jp/ http://bm.straightline.jp/
http://cssremix.com/ http://cssremix.com/
http://www.webdesign-inspiration.com/ http://www.webdesign-inspiration.com/
http://land-book.com/ http://land-book.com/
You'll see a lot of overlap, but again, that doesn't necessarily mean the site is well-designed. It generally just means that that designer was savvy enough to push the link out to all of these sites and it was passable enough to put on display.
- mnicole 14y agoNot sure what the downvote's about. Does HN automatically flag posts with lots of links?
- stevenameyer 14y agoThank you. This will definitely be helpful and keep me busy for a while.
- alexgaribay 14y agoThose are a great set of links. I'm not a web designer but I do appreciate good design/UX when I see it. These links will help a lot with inspiration for learning. Edit: grammar