A few months ago I published a gallery of 25 Beautiful, Minimalistic Website Designs. I received more feedback on that post than almost any other, so I decided to follow up with another 25 minimalistic websites.
Recently redesigned, this community site for web designers uses a simple, effect design.
This graphic designer features an uncluttered layout and a nice color combination.
A visual communications and brand identity studio.
A nice minimalistic design on a black background.
The home of articles with 100 or less words also prefers simplicity in its design.
A minimalistic design on a blue background.
Online portfolio of a student at the University of Pennsylvania.
A Portuguese web design firm that uses very little color in its minimalistic design.
Another dark minimalistic design.
A high-end interactive agency, FL2 uses a simple website to promote its work.
Story writer Edward Pistachio’s website has a minimalistic magazine-style design.
Web and graphic designer with a dark minimalistic site.
A minimalistic design that uses only a few different colors.
A simply-stated website of a student designer.
Another site with a dark background.
UK web designer with a nice, simplistic website.
Another web design firm.
Seattle-based interactive producer.
A very basic layout with an interesting background effect at the top of the page.
A more colorful minimalistic approach.
A dark background for this designer.
This site uses a few different random backgrounds including the one shown below.
Nashville-based web design and search marketing company.
Minimalistic design that uses black, white, and gray.
Portfolio site for freelance web designer/developer.
74 comments from readers
1 Karim Jan 14, 2008 at 5:54 pm
Very nice ones! in fact!
this proves my motto: Simple is harder!
2 Mason Hipp Jan 14, 2008 at 7:01 pm
Awesome list Steven—it’s great inspiration for anyone who’s involved with web design.
Thanks,
- Mason
3 Tay - Super Blogging Jan 14, 2008 at 7:32 pm
This is a great list, Steven! It really inspires me and I loved looking at all of these great designs. Stumbled and Dugg. Keep up the great work.
4 Vandelay Design Jan 14, 2008 at 7:42 pm
Karim,
Simple is hard. It seems illogical, but an effective minimal design isn’t easy.
Mason and Tay,
Thanks for the feedback. I’m glad you like the gallery.
5 Jermayn Parker Jan 14, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Yes simplicity is best but people get caught on that and exclude colour…
No colour does not mean no colour. If you look at the best simple designs above, they have colour.
6 Jermayn Parker Jan 14, 2008 at 8:16 pm
opps the above should read
“no colour does not mean simple designs”
7 Simon Ward Jan 14, 2008 at 8:26 pm
There’s some nice ones on this list Steven. Very cool.
8 alien abductions Jan 14, 2008 at 11:42 pm
Hmm…. Nice. I think u should used more colour.your design is cool.Thanks.
9 Alen Jan 14, 2008 at 11:59 pm
Great list, thank you for including CSS Globe
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11 Andrei Jan 15, 2008 at 12:16 am
CRCBUS is a total (poor man’s) rip off of Kokokaka’s site. And Kokokaka came out WAAAAAAAAY before CRCBUS did. Please don’t reward pirates.
http://kokokaka.com/
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14 Jason Bartholme Jan 15, 2008 at 6:32 am
Great looking examples, Steven. Gives me some inspiration for when I redesign one of my sites.
Congrats on the del.icio.us front page as well.
15 Alex Jan 15, 2008 at 7:29 am
Very nice, thanks!
16 Ruchir Jan 15, 2008 at 7:37 am
Great research as always, Steve. Keep up the great work!
17 Tibi Puiu Jan 15, 2008 at 7:59 am
Great compilation Steve, I’ve always been a sucker for minimalist designs :>
18 scott Jan 15, 2008 at 8:23 am
So, this is kinda like mental masturbation. Yes, these are all pretty and interesting designs, but they’re all FOR DESIGNERS. What, pray tell, would you expect from a designer?
Show me a fortune 500 company that goes out on a limb and chooses an expressive, deep, minimalistic design.
19 Matthew Griffin Jan 15, 2008 at 9:13 am
Great list, Steven. I Dugg you.
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21 adrien Jan 15, 2008 at 11:45 am
I went to an art/design program last summer and loved their website, http://tuscanclassicalacademy.org/. Certainly agree with scott.
22 tyler Jan 15, 2008 at 1:30 pm
blah blah blah. typography, big deal.
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24 Scott Jan 15, 2008 at 3:58 pm
I like most of them, but not all. Simple is fine, but sometimes they just had way too much font graphics for me. Check out my site.
25 Vandelay Design Jan 15, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Alen,
Thanks for stopping by. You’re welcome for the inclusion of CSS Globe.
Jermayn and alien,
I agree, color is important. I think there are a few rare designs that look great without color, but they’re in the minority.
Andrei,
Thanks for providing that link. I hadn’t seen that before, definitely a very similar design.
Jason,
Thanks!
Scott,
They’re not all for designers, although very many are. I agree with you that large companies are not going to go with this type of design, but that doesn’t mean that no one else should.
Matthew,
Thanks for the Digg.
26 Goncalo Fonseca Jan 15, 2008 at 6:52 pm
Care to comment on this one?
http://www.351.com
I love feedback
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30 Dennison Uy - Graphic Designer Jan 16, 2008 at 5:31 am
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32 Kristen Jan 16, 2008 at 10:31 am
I was about to begin constructing my website when your first post on minimalistic designs came out. It was such great inspiration, that I completely scrapped my original plan and started over again! I do believe the result will be a much better product.
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36 music news Jan 16, 2008 at 8:14 pm
I was inpired by this when making my site.Nice thing.
37 best health information Jan 16, 2008 at 8:15 pm
This is a very cool thing.Carry on.
38 Goji Girl Jan 17, 2008 at 1:21 pm
I love the ‘fresh creative’ text on the Finch site. Anyone know the name of a similar font? Less is more as they say, great work.
39 julian the designer Jan 19, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Wicked list. Good to see these clean designs…
40 Sam Law Jan 19, 2008 at 6:29 pm
Nice screens guys. Inspiring bunch of designs…
41 Mat Jan 21, 2008 at 6:54 am
CRCBUS is not came out after Kokokaka. Please don’t accuse a website if u don’t know a pubblication date.
42 vision dino Jan 21, 2008 at 11:03 am
here is my minimalist site http://www.visiondino.ilive.ro , not my design
43 Stevia Jan 23, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Fab designs. I particularly like the Darren Alawi, SayHej! and Superawesome ones. In fact they are all great!
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45 Mark Wieman Jan 24, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Thanks for featuring my web site here.
46 Vandelay Design Jan 24, 2008 at 6:13 pm
Mark,
You’re welcome, it’s a nice looking site.
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48 anonymous Jan 26, 2008 at 1:21 pm
here’s another one:
http://www.ripstyles.com
49 Patrick Rhone Jan 27, 2008 at 7:16 pm
This is a great list. I would love to see some comments on mine.
http://patrickrhone.com
50 Vandelay Design Jan 27, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Hi Patrick,
Your site looks nice, certainly a minimalist approach.
51 sauravh Jan 28, 2008 at 3:57 am
cool one
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53 JeremyB Jan 28, 2008 at 8:45 am
Thanks for the notice. Proud to be included on your list.
-Jeremy Brosowsky
founder & CEO, Brijit
http://www.brijit.com/
54 Mike Jan 28, 2008 at 11:58 am
Here’s another one:
http://www.workingimagination.com
55 Vandelay Design Jan 28, 2008 at 3:07 pm
Jeremy,
You’re welcome. Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment.
Mike,
Thanks for the link, it looks good.
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63 iH8Shia Mar 24, 2008 at 7:20 am
Intresting content, not very good use of colors though…
64 Josh May 20, 2008 at 12:26 pm
agreed, aside from monoroot those colors are not very flashy. I do like the simplicity of most of the sites. Less is more on most occasions.
65 Guang@ HouDeAsianArt.com May 27, 2008 at 7:49 am
Thanks for the collection of those beautiful minimalistic designs! They inspired me a lot when we re-designed our website… they gave me guts to embrace the beauty of simplicity!
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And Jon Tan Super
68 R. Hughes Jun 20, 2008 at 2:34 am
Thanks very much for posting this list. We’re looking for inspiration and this offered some! We’ll be using some of this in the future.
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69 Micah Jun 20, 2008 at 8:48 am
Thanks for the list. It was very helpful inspiration for my portfolio!
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