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Re:Godly – Astronomically good web design inspiration by Unai on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @03:34PM (#37227522)
Does anyone have a web design inspiration site that's focused on sites that just look good and have a good UI & UX instead of collecting the most out there canvas animation thingies? Those might look good, but I can't get inspired by something that I can't replicate without a team of multidisciplinary people doing 3D design, WebGL, etc.

I used to have a number of good ones added to my RSS reader, but they have slowly cease to update. I could google for inspiration sites like that, but I know google will only give me listicle SEO spam.

Re:Godly – Astronomically good web design inspiration by awb on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @03:43PM (#37227618)
Re:Godly – Astronomically good web design inspiration by Gualdrapo on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @03:44PM (#37227640)
Also

https://minimal.gallery/

(I learned about this here on HN If I recall correctly)

Re:Godly – Astronomically good web design inspiration by hbcondo714 on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @09:24PM (#37230778)
Yup, discussed here 5 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35225097

Re:Godly – Astronomically good web design inspiration by arvinsim on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @06:20AM (#37233883)
Thanks! As a developer, these are the kind of sites that I want to develop for myself.
Re:Godly – Astronomically good web design inspiration by 3abiton on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @05:13PM (#37228600)
What makes them unique?
Re:Godly – Astronomically good web design inspiration by awb on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @01:54AM (#37232303)
I just happen to like their curated aesthetic, and with respect to OC, the designs also seem reasonable to implement and use.
Re:Godly – Astronomically good web design inspiration by Al0neStar on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @06:07PM (#37229197)
Re:Godly – Astronomically good web design inspiration by Ajnasz on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @03:34AM (#37232880)
What happened with the "above the fold" rule, that we put important info where the user don't need to scroll. I clicked through some of them and I only see huge titles with parallax.
Re:Godly – Astronomically good web design inspiration by r00dY on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @04:31PM (#37228160)
In e-commerce space you might take a look at: https://theheadlessclub.com/. It's exactly what you're looking for. Quote from about page:

"Most directories tend to put emphasis on shiny and showy hyper-animated web experiments. Unfortunately, many of these projects fail when criteria like performance, mobile, usability, and accessibility are considered. It’s hard to find one single resource on the internet that would combine both the technological excellence and highly polished design in ecommerce space. The Headless Club started as an internal agency tool to foster ecommerce best-practices across our development team. Now we’re sharing our findings with you."

Disclaimer: I'm the co-author (with folks from commerce-ui.com agency). We'll soon make it not specific to headless but to all e-commerce stores.

Re:Godly – Astronomically good web design inspiration by gffrd on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @04:45PM (#37228278)
Help: what are “headless e-commerce stores?”

Is that like having an eComm shop built atop Shopify?

Re:Godly – Astronomically good web design inspiration by r00dY on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @04:52PM (#37228359)
Headless means that you're using e-commerce platform only via API and build your front-end in whatever tech you want (next, nuxt, Remix, etc). It's different from a traditional approach when e-commerce platform handles front-end (HTML templates rendering). In Shopify can do both.

https://www.shopify.com/enterprise/headless-commerce

Re:Godly – Astronomically good web design inspiration by reaperducer on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @04:56PM (#37228414)
Funny that headless is now considered "traditional," when that was considered standard for a decade and a half. Relying on the platform was considered amateur.
Re:Godly – Astronomically good web design inspiration by super256 on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @06:20PM (#37229328)
Well, those who now use shopify used to use prestashop, magento or shopworn before. Not sure if all of those stores were run by amateurs.
Re:Godly – Astronomically good web design inspiration by cafeinux on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @06:25PM (#37229371)
"Traditional" is just another way to say "what was once the norm", so your comment is a bit pleonastic. Is relying on the platform no longer considered amateur? If yes, call me old fashioned, because I've never liked those platforms...
Re:Godly – Astronomically good web design inspiration by gffrd on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @11:44AM (#37237812)
Thank you!
Re:Godly – Astronomically good web design inspiration by reaperducer on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @04:54PM (#37228383)
Those might look good, but I can't get inspired by something that I can't replicate without a team of multidisciplinary people doing 3D design, WebGL, etc.

I'm with you. 98% of these lists are worthless for inspiration because they're mostly at student portfolio pieces or mock ups.

Show me some good accessible, fast, commercial designs that I can be inspired by and learn from, not some design agency's 3D spinning radishes blocking the text.

Bonus points if they manage to work in display advertising in a tasteful way.

Re:Godly – Astronomically good web design inspiration by mattygee on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @04:57PM (#37228425)
While not exactly what you asked for and instead a single article containing a collection of advice, albeit concretely illustrated in an arguably useful fashion, I can attest at least that I've found this one useful:

https://medium.com/refactoring-ui/7-practical-tips-for-cheat...

Re:Godly – Astronomically good web design inspiration by austinwade on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @05:27PM (#37228743)
Hacker News’s simple and utilitarian focus is my favorite inspiration.
Re:Godly – Astronomically good web design inspiration by Jipazgqmnm on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @06:19PM (#37229318)
Re:Godly – Astronomically good web design inspiration by HungSu on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @08:58PM (#37230603)
You asked for "web design inspiration" but you sound like you're asking for UI design, which is a different skill. For that I recommend Mobbin:

https://mobbin.com/

Re:Godly – Astronomically good web design inspiration by hidelooktropic on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @03:36PM (#37241074)
I have a similar gripe that many of these design inspiration websites that I'm trying to use to inform all kinds of design objectives. They seem to be singularly focused on landing pages, but there are great ideas and implementations out there to full applications design. I wish we could find more inspiration for Interactions, user flows, how to show a lot of information in one viewport without overwhelming the user, and so on.