30 Amazing Examples of Minimalism in Web Design
Minimalism web design is a great tool to create user-friendly websites as long as you don’t overdo it. Too much minimalism can be boring. There’s much more to minimalism than white background and black text. It’s about creating a site that is simple, user-friendly and that meets the user’s needs.
Why go with a minimalist design for your site?
If you choose to go with a minimalist design for your site, be sure you’re making the right decision.Why not also go through a few ebooks for designers that can help you figure out which would work best for your site or your client sites.
Here are just a few benefits of having a minimalist designed site:
It fits your brand
If your brand is formal, extremely modern and edgy, than it’s the perfect choice.
Minimize the distractions with a clean design
There’s already an overload of information on the web, so there’s no reason to make it even more difficult to find on your own website. Your site should be the opposite of labyrinth. Using a clean and simple design, with text that is easy to read and information that is easy to find, that’s what it’s all about.
Maximize impact with effective design
Make use of smart design elements to have an impact on the visitors. The keyword here is “effective design”, which means that you should use design elements to captivate the visitors, not overwhelm them.
To prove just how effective minimalism design is, here’s a showcase of 30 amazing sites that are making an impact using simple design elements.
1. Yuna Kim
2. Astronaut
3. Flush
4. Tic Toc
5. Kind Company
8. Visualbox
9. Toko
10. StrangeBeautiful
11. Postmachina
12. Fellswoop
13. Somme
14. Imaginista
15. Alien Bikes
16. D.S. Higdon
17. Intuition Events
18. Marc Kimmel
19. Sajak& Farki
20. Franklin Gaw
21. Designful
22. Hocus Focus
23. Float Left
24. Barnt& Arnst
25. Sylvain Ollier
26. Redial
27. Empire
28. Studio Antwork
29. Neverbland
30. Allan Yu
Have you ever used a minimalist design for your site or your clients sites? When do you think it works best?
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There are lots of different interpretations of what minimalism in web design is. But I think you nailed it with this post, great examples. In my opinion, the main purpose of a ‘minimal’ web page design is to lay the content out in a way that no element distracts the end users attention from the visual hierarchy of the site. The way to achieve a minimal distraction is to have a well structured back-bone to your site with your design focused on the space between the fundamental elements of the website. That’s just my opinion…