35 Effective Examples of Minimalism in Web Design

August 28, 2011 by Paul Andrew Web Design, Web Inspiration

All designers have different interpretations of what minimal web design truly is. As far as my opinion goes, the sole purpose of an effective minimally designed web page is to lay-out the content in such a way that no single element distracts attention from the visual hierarchy. And the key to achieving minimal distraction is to to have initially a well structured backbone with your design skills focused on the comparative space relation between the fundamental elements of the web page. That is all in my opinion anyway…

Of course, there is a lot more to minimalism. A hell of a lot more. So, for the sake of this post, if we take the theory out of the equation and simply revel in the visual beauty of the truly effective examples of minimalist in web design we have for you below.

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http://giometri.com egiova

I’m confused, do you call minimalist a design with an economy in numbers of elements, or in numbers of colors? Or both?

In my sense, from your list, Assembly, for example, is not a minimalist design. There’s no economy nore for colors or elements. Alien Bikes is minimalist (counted colors are part of the design), Imaginista not (too much arythmic elements). (sorry for my english…).Or do you call minimalist a design with a lot of white space?What’s the criteria(s) exactly? I’m not expecting a definition, of course, but the debate in my teamwork is quite apasionate… Thanks to participate :)
http://www.ntouchmarketing.com Ryan

Great examples. I always like a nice clean website that has just enough information to get you there, but is not cluttered and full of fluff.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1442479600 Chas. Johnson

I always joke that my ideal home page would be just a blank white screen.
http://twitter.com/FutureDims Future Dimensions

also bredcrums.com. very minimalist bookmarking site.
naazsedilix.blogspot.com

very cool indeed
http://c-c.com.au Jerry Brisbane

Hmmm… I like these designs. The minimalist approach is an interesting challenge when it buts head with the commercial world. When a website has to play a role in business development, it is VERY difficult to make a minimalist approach work. It can be done — but making a site SELL a message while being minimal isn’t easy.
Anonymous

http://cofixy.com – minimalist Q&A site
http://www.oldworldcreative.com Evan Skuthorpe

Some cool sites featured, though minimalism doesn’t have to mean white and shades of grey…

Minimally White Designs

Minimally Grey Designs

Minimally Dark Designs

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