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25 Innovative Websites that Buck the Design Trends

25 Innovative Websites that Buck the Design Trends
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November 05, 2018

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Certain trends have become so mainstream that the majority of modern web designs have similarities in their layouts and styles. Still, there are a lot of unique web designs which you can use to create a one of a kind project.

In today’s post, we showcase 25 innovative designs that buck the popular trends in favor of experimental ideas. These websites have all been chosen for their unusual navigations, out of the ordinary layouts or clever uses of animations and effects.

These are multi purpose websites which you can use to build websites for various niches. Discover all these features and choose the ones you love for your next project. There’s much to choose from!

Airnauts

This is a creative one-page website which has a unique layout and an angled, geometry photo overlay which adds dynamism to the design.

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April Zero

This web design uses stunning graphics and an animated background that will blow your mind. Also, the animations will keep you engaged, wanting for more.

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Letters, Inc.

Here’s an excellent website design which uses a lot of creative features. This includes the menu bar, with neat animations, the outlined illustrations from all over the site, the unique loading icon, etc.

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Uppercut – Digital Product Design & Development Studio

This is an amazing website design with a creative menu that, when used, it pushes all the layout to the left, to unveil its content.

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Jonathan Patterson

Check out this wonderful design which has an amazing grid layout. This allows you to see better the full content of the website and to navigate easier.

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Sivert Høyem

This is a minimalistic web design with a wonderful layout and neat features. You can also discover a hamburger menu navigation with a simple but effective animation.

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Your Local Studio

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Dataveyes

This is a complex web design which includes a beautiful animated background that will keep you engaged. Moreover, the menu has a lovely animation and the whole website includes beautiful illustrations.

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Vtcreative

Check out this interactive website that requires further action from your part in order to unveil its content. This template has a well-thought layout with stunning animated illustrations.

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Ondo

This is a colorful one-page web design which will impress you through its layout. Also, it includes many animations that will get your attention.

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Adaptable

Here you have a full page menu design which allows you to see the full structure of the website. Get inspired by this design and use this trend in your future projects.

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Carlo Barberis

This is a very creative website which includes stunning images, beautiful animations, and more.

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Jun Duffy

This is another lovely website design which includes a beautiful layout, lovely photography, a neat fixed header design, and more.

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Webalys

This is a remarkable design that uses a stunning graphic from the beginning to get your attention. Here you’ll discover lots of well-designed icons with lots of styles and uses.

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Personal Brand Institute

This is an outstanding website with a marvelous interactive design. Get inspired by this creative idea and use what you learn in your own projects.

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Creative Knight

This is an amazing template which includes many neat features, such as smooth transitions, large animated images and videos, and more.

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Active Theory

This is another outstanding website with a well-designed layout that will blow your mind. This design includes many animations, with interactive elements, stunning images, etc.

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Kevin Lagier

This is a remarkable layout that has an interactive design. This will definitely keep you connected, navigating through its pages.

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Offpixel

Here you have an excellent website which has an interactive design. Also, you can choose between a 2d or 3d layouts that will automatically change before your eyes.

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Hillside

This website uses the menu as a frame that contains the content of the site. This is a unique manner of keeping your menu at reach at all times.

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The Anonymous Hamburger 

Here’s an example of a website which doesn’t use a menu. You need to scroll until you find what you are looking for.

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Edelson

Here you’ll discover a very creative manner of showcasing the menu. This pops up an overlay which includes a grid layout with the menu buttons. Also, on hover, you’ll see a related image.

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Paradise Pad

This is a remarkable web design which uses a split screen concept to create its unique design.

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Grim London

This website uses an interactive design and a custom scrolling effect to navigate through the site. You’ll discover a map of London and you need to use your mouse to drag and navigate through it to find what you are looking for.

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Written by Iggy

Iggy is a designer who loves experimenting with new web design techniques, collating creative website designs, and writing about the latest design trends, inspiration, design freebies, and more. You can follow him on Twitter

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  1. Ninja says:

    Indeed some great examples of innovative design. We are in process of redesigning our web hosting business website. These designs will surely gonna help us frame our website structure and design theme.

  2. Morgana Chang says:

    This is very helpful, thank you for sharing with us!

  3. Josu says:

    one other, also nice
    derbauer.de in english “the Farmer”

  4. James says:

    Creativity is necessary, responsive website change the web design concept, with change of time more features add to the creative website, but it is always user friendly.

  5. Irfan Momin says:

    What a Creativity.. !
    Its Awesome! Love the Creativity

  6. Rahul says:

    Check out this site quibbr.com. The coming soon page is quite innovative.

  7. Sitemockups says:

    Website inspirations: https://sitemockups.com/

  8. ctitzee12 says:

    you have posted useful data thank full to you for this

  9. ban hang online says:

    thank for your infomation .
    I realy like it

  10. Maggie says:

    Inspiring ideas collection. Thanks

  11. طراحی وب سایت says:

    helpful thanks

  12. Jonathan Patterson says:

    Wow, I’m thrilled to see my site make this list! Thanks so much!

  13. Todd Huotari says:

    Very cool aesthetics. Do you have before/after metrics to see what impact these designs had on usability?

  14. Mike says:

    I love the april zero! Those are superb design, my question is how was it based on UX?

  15. Sky Blue Ocean Media says:

    The Airnauts site seems to amaze me each time, although since this site is heavily dependent on jQuery it is still a bit ‘laggy .. and this site does not work on IE7 either !!!! .. Apart from that a very nice inspiration

  16. Victoria says:

    Wow! Jonathan Patterson and Webalys look especailly awesome! There’s many beautifully esigned sites toady, but most of them are rather typical. That’s why creativity is one of a few things that can distinguish well-designed site

    • Jonathan Patterson says:

      I agree, being unique in a sea of sameness is very important. Thanks for the compliment!

  17. دانلود فیلتر شکن says:

    tnx a lot Chris Spooner for this content ! very usefull !

  18. Alex says:

    Amazing Content!! Really I was confuse on the same but now satisfied, I was visit one more website like you https://www.digitalzona.com.

  19. Heidi C. says:

    BRAVO!

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