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April 26, 2007 | 4 likes | 0 comments
Watch the latest Music Video from your favorite artists. Get up to date Celebrity and Music News. See episodes of your favorite MTV Reality Show. The redesigned MTV.com is now a completely different and much better user experience. Bringing in consultants like Dan Cederholm to make sure they're on the right track tells me that the team behind the new site knows what they're doing. Their theming system named MTV HATS makes sure that hot designers give the site a fresh and varied look and feel. This is a great online makeover of one of the biggest media institutions in the world. Refreshing stuff. Via SimpleBits.
February 24, 2007 | 8 likes | 0 comments
This is the promo site for the latest class of students attending Sweden's world famous school of new media, HyperIsland. These site's are launched every year, and every single time they make use of Flash. This could be bad, but in HyperIsland's case, they truly know how to handle Flash, and create sites that push the limits of the technology creatively. The Crew12 site is beautiful and an impressive piece work that in fact pushes the limits of what my laptop can handle, making the transitions a bit laggy.
January 22, 2007 | 9 likes | 0 comments
This website is an outstanding example of how "Web 2.0" design should be used as an inspiration to create something easily readable, friendly, fresh and beautiful. Notice the use of text, colors, illustrations, icons, rounded corners, gradients, big buttons and the classic stars. My only problem with this one, is that it requires me to read a bit of text to understand what it's all about.
January 8, 2007 | 3 likes | 0 comments
Small. Simple. Tight. Beautiful. Those are all words I find fitting for Norwegian web designer/journalist Olav Bjørkøy's blog design. It works extremely well, and is worth a closer look. He even makes good use of png alpha transparency.
January 8, 2007 | 24 likes | 0 comments
Toronto based Nick La's portfolio/blog/playground is an outstanding work on its own. It is a design that has a great deal of details and an amazing color scheme for such a clean layout. I only have one issue with this one; the ads. They seem cluttered and random, and take up way too much of my attention while I'm visiting the site.
November 27, 2006 | 16 likes | 0 comments
Its inventors claim it's a smarter, fairer and better way of lending and borrowing money. Whether this is true or not, I can't tell you. But I can tell you that its friendly and appealing design definitely strengthens my trust in the business and the idea behind it. It's not the only business of its kind, but it sure is the best designed. In fact, its design beats all finance-related websites I can think of as I'm writing this.
October 22, 2006 | 38 likes | 0 comments
Self titled is John Iacoviello's Flash masterpiece as far as wrapping and navigation goes. Play around with, I know you'll love it. The details and ingenuity of the navigational system he's developed is so playful that I always end up clicking my keyboard and moving my mouse around for minutes on end without feeling the urge of accomplishing anything.
October 22, 2006 | 18 likes | 0 comments
This is the most cpu-intensive site I can ever recall visiting. There's just so much going on, so much interaction, animation, audio and graphics jumping at you, that you can't not enjoy this rollercoaster-ride of a website. I don't understand much, but it sure impresses me on a few levels.
October 3, 2006 | 19 likes | 0 comments
"Because Web Designers Are The New Rockstars." DesignCharts compiles a weekly top 40 chart tracking the most popular website designs based on various factors. By aggregating clicks from select webdesign galleries and community sites, DesignCharts aim to be a new hub for who's hot and who's not in the world of design on the web. As the target audience is mainly designers the interface is of course all done in Flash.
October 3, 2006 | 15 likes | 0 comments
Why I've never added Digg to Styleboost™ before is a mystery to me. It must have slipped my mind as it's too obvious. With all its flaws and controversies, Digg is still the product of the web 2.0 wave that I'm using the most. I use it even more than Flickr. One of the main reasons for why I love it so much is its subtle beauty and ease of use. Making a site like this look so tasty, and at the same time cramming so much functionality into such a simple to use shell is just jaw-dropping. I love digg. And I love what Daniel Burka has done with it.
