The retro theme has exploded in recent years with nostalgic styles becoming popular in fashion, photo, and video. That is why we decided to find some of the most inspiring examples of retro style website designs and share them with you.
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20 Powerful Dark Websites for Design Inspiration
While bright flat website designs are continuing to illuminate our screens and sometimes burn our retinas, some designers are taking the opposite route and creating powerful website designs with dark, subdued color palettes.
25 Innovative Websites that Buck the Design Trends
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.
Showcase of Parallax Scrolling Effects in Web Design
The parallax illusion is one of the coolest effects to hit the world of web design. This showcase rounds up the best examples of websites that have scrolling parallax effects. Some use the effect to add a subtle effect to the website’s background, whereas others use the parallax effect more prominently to create an exciting browsing experience.
30 Web Designs that Fully Embrace the Hero Image
Today’s roundup showcases 30 sites that fully embrace the hero image, granting the maximum amount of space possible to this design feature and shifting all other content thousands of pixels down the page.
Hero images prominently fill the screen to wow the user, often only accompanied by a heading or a sentence and a single call to action such as a signup form or button links.
20 Powerful High Contrast Black & White Web Designs
Designing a website using just black and white provides the highest contrast possible between text and background elements. Combined with black and white photography, this produces powerful designs that grab the attention of the viewer and draws them in with their seductive qualities. In today’s showcase I round up 20 beautiful examples of monochromatic website designs that master the use of black and white in their interfaces.
Showcase of Web Design Layouts with Angled Lines
Website layout designs naturally tend to make use of horizontal and vertical lines due to the blocky nature of the coding behind them, but designers are breaking free from these constraints by using dynamic angles in their designs. Sometimes these angled lines are simply background images created in Photoshop, but others are animated elements made directly in code. Check out today’s web design showcase to see some great examples of website interfaces with angled lines.
30 Unofficial Redesigns of Popular Social Media Sites
As web designers we often get frustrated with the UI and UX design of sites we commonly use, with social media sites being right up there as the most annoying! This can lead designers to have a go at redesigning them, albeit unofficially as a personal project just for fun. Sometimes these design concepts are pretty radical, whereas others are so well made we can only wish they were the real deal. Check out this roundup of 30+ unofficial redesigns of Twitter, Facebook & YouTube.
30 Blocky Website Designs Based on a Square Grid
Grids give a website design structure and balance, but some grid layouts are more obvious than others. The most basic of grids is the square block, where the page is divided up horizontally and vertical with equally spaced gridlines. The content then fills the grid like a chequerboard pattern, or elements can span multiple blocks to form larger content areas. Today’s showcase features 30 perfectly balanced sites that are all based on a blocky square grid.
25 Visually Stunning App Dashboard Design Concepts
User dashboards are difficult interfaces to design, as there’s loads of information that needs to be neatly presented to bring the user up to speed, but you don’t want to slap them in the face with tons of data.
