Comments on: 25 Examples Of Clean, Effective And Beautiful Web Design

By: g*

g* — Mon, 11 May 2009 19:35:43 +0000

Ehhhhh some of these sites may be effective, but “clean” they are not. Most are quite cluttered with many hierarchies competing for attention. Almost all use the same tired two-column+header/footer blog format with a lot of information present upfront with little to no filtration.

Sure, they do the job, but most don’t really have much fun with it.

I agree with Peter, time for something new.

By: Mai

Mai — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:29:41 +0000

Hi there –I am a web designer, and I accidentally ran across this post. Your article was great in pointing out that usability and a clean homepage are components in making a website look beautiful and effective. However, I was disappointed with many of the examples that you showed. I have seen some beautiful designs that have lots of content (such as apple.com as oppose to amazon.com). It seems a lot of your selections are websites that perhaps you are familiar with because you visit them often, and that you’ve become accustomed to the way they present their information. You also included a lot of content-heavy and blog websites, which I think too often have too many links, options, and text and not enough hierarchy (think, wired.com). I’d like to see a second part to this article that addresses more visual and less content heavy websites that are beautifully and effectively executed.

By: Emlyn

Emlyn — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 14:52:02 +0000

Being honest: While some of these designs may indeed be effective in their respective markets, most of these examples–with a few exceptions–don’t strike me as particularly “clean” or “beautiful” website designs. In fact many of these aren’t attractive at all.

For designs that, in my view, more closely fit the “clean” and “beautiful” labels, I suggest checking out some of the collections assembled on smashingmagazine.com, webcreme.com, and vandelaydesign.com.

By: sezam20

sezam20 — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:55:15 +0000

Hi, thank you for your collection. I think
here you may find a lot of nice designs: http://www.designreviewers.com/

By: Payel (HIP)

Payel (HIP) — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:45:03 +0000

Hi! Adam

I liked your post. I could see some of the best web designs in the web world.

Thanks

Payel