Lately, we’ve been pondering some of the better web designs that have popped up over the past year.
When we say “web design,” we’re looking beyond the pretty face of a well-laid-out page, beyond color and typography, beyond trends. What we’re after is a truly elegant and functional design, and those things are just the icing on the cake. We specifically looked for sites that stretch the boundaries of our technologies’ capabilities in interesting, useful and beautiful ways.
As greater bandwidth, new file formats and new markup specs make it easier, cheaper and faster to deliver high-quality digital images, sound and video, groundbreaking web designers are making visually and aurally intensive sites that change our point-and-click expectations of what the web should look like.
Here are a few of the websites we think showcased excellent design work this year, both in terms of form and function. They range from video and music showcases, to media troves, to high-volume social media apps, but they all have one thing in common: a (in some cases, renewed) focus on digital multimedia content.
One of the best social web designs we’ve seen this year was a reimagining of a familiar product. Still, Twitter’s redesign was much more than a facelift.
The new Twitter design was based on the Golden Ratio and was clearly built with users in mind. It beautifully incorporates common user actions with current design trends to make a highly enjoyable, useful and easy-on-the-eyes web app.
Most importantly, the new Twitter.com integrates multimedia content into the stream, a feature users have loved in desktop apps and other third party Twitter apps.
Not that popularity is any measure of artistic merit, but the redesign has also been well-accepted by the app’s users. We agree with some of our own commenters that Twitter.com is beginning to match its third-party app competitors in terms of design and functionality.
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