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Your Favorite Design?

I know it can be hard to find your favorite design in your head, but when you think of great design is there one site that you always end up going back to? For me it has always been Cuban Council. The design hasn't changed in 10 years and that is because there is no reason to change it.

So what is the design that gets brought up the most in your mind? Don't try to spam your own site because we will see right through it. And you can only pick one, if you can't pick one then just don't say anything.

 

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It is quite busy indeed Darice, and I prefer Jason Santa Maria's site.

It's just that Subtraction seems to serve as the baseline idea of what my favorite site designs are.

Some people like more white-space, some like less *cough*Scrivs*cough*, some like a more minimalistic approach, some like complex structures.

But for me the inspiration people take from his site is undeniable.

 

@Marco: Can't wait till Tyme sees that you chose Subtraction. We had a talk about it the other day and she was wondering what was everyone's obsession with it. I do like it because it gets down to what it should and I'm always about a nice structure. Does it win any ooo and aaaa awards? Probably not, but I don't go to him for that. He has his focus and he sticks with it.

I love me some whitespace, but I also love putting content where I put it :P However, when I do a site it is in a constant state of evolution as you know so things could change, or they could just get more crowded to the point you need a 7800px display to view it all.

@Darice: Jon Hicks is truly one of the genius designers on the web.

 
 

I'm impressed when site designs remain simple, even when they have tons of content. It's much easier to make a clear, focused or minimalist design when you only have 3 paragraphs of content on the entire site.

Apple does well in keeping their design, navigation & hierarchy consistent, even with tons of different groups/departments working on the site using different technologies. Although I miss their dark product pages. Seems like they're phasing those out.

Herman Miller. Lots of content, beautiful photography and simple/consistent presentation.

 
 
 
 
 
 

For all that I hate some of the things they've done to themselves recently, the fellows of Tumblr still've got one of the most gorgeously to-the-point sites I've ever seen, from their splash page to their inner workings. Jacob Bijani is my candidate for best young designer out there.

I also have to continue my fanboying of Daring Fireball, which still has perhaps the most perfect background color of all time, and whose blog flow awes me. It's not just the minimal-but-functional design, it's that he's a terrific link editor and essayist.

 
 

My favorite design is Next Update. To me, it is exactly how a company's website should be. Garrett Dimon does an excellent job at keeping his designs simple and useful.

Along those same lines, Sifter is my favorite web application design, also by Garrett Dimon. I strive for that same kind of visual appeal and simplicity in all my designs.

 

Kevin - Got to love that clean layout.

I'll actually add two I just remembered. First is Cultured Code. I'm not actually an enormous fan of their current front page, but their product pages and blog made me gasp first time I saw them. Everything is just so marvelously perfect.

Second is Shaun Inman's two webapps, Mint and Fever. Each one has a unique design that's unlike anything else I've seen, and the design just nails the required functionality. Mint in particular is gorgeous.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

EE does content, but it keeps out of the way of design. I'd hate to try to build that site in Drupal or WordPress. (There's a reason so many designers use it.)

I know this might just be because I've done a lot of *different* things with Wordpress, but I fail to see anything that Wordpress couldn't do quite easily.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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