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Inspiration

Here you will find collections of beautiful, inspirational websites, photography, and graphic artwork.

Covering all web design styles (minimal, clean, dark, colorful, content-heavy, and more), all website types (design agency, eCommerce, creative portfolios, mobile-first, responsive), all web design trends (parallax, flat design, Material Design), and even collections that focus on a particular component or area of a web page (responsive menus, animated logos, contact forms, footers).

Clicking Around: The Use of Circular Mouse Cursors

Clicking Around: The Use of Circular Mouse Cursors

Just recently, we discussed a tiny trend in mouse cursors, exploring a dozen examples of lonely but eye-catching effects. Today it has come under the spotlight again, this time with…

A Showcase of Websites That Have Been Inspired by Wireframes

A Showcase of Websites That Have Been Inspired by Wireframes

This inspiring gallery takes a look at those beautifully designed web design interfaces that have been inspired by wireframe or a digital blueprint’s ideology.

Shining Examples of the Flashlight Effect Web Design Trend

Shining Examples of the Flashlight Effect Web Design Trend

2019 has already seen numerous tiny trends where the mouse cursor played first fiddle: mouse trails, repelling effects, interactive 3D globes and fantastic hover effects – to name a few….

Room to Breathe: Using Whitespace in the Hero Area

Room to Breathe: Using Whitespace in the Hero Area

Developers are often so obsessed with extravagant solutions that they sometimes get carried away – forgetting how the simplest things can make an interface a better place. One such example…

Crypto-Inspired Mobile & Web UI Design Concepts

Crypto-Inspired Mobile & Web UI Design Concepts

Cryptocurrency is one of the biggest mysteries of our times. Is it a real thing? Is it a fraud? No one can tell for sure. People are split into two…

30 Truly Creative Examples of Billboard Design

30 Truly Creative Examples of Billboard Design

Advertisers go above and beyond to market products to the public. Whether it’s on the TV, the radio, the social media, the websites we visit, and even on our commute;…

The Client is Always Right Poster Series

The Client is Always Right Poster Series

No matter what type of business you are in, hearing the words ‘the client is always right’ will make you cringe. In design, those words will not only make you…

How Ultra-Thin Lines in Web Design Can Create an Impact

How Ultra-Thin Lines in Web Design Can Create an Impact

Last year, the web development community was obsessed with vertical lines and vertical rhythm. This year, we see some interesting solutions that have originated from that tendency. The use of…

25 Creative Pictogram Recreations of Popular Movie Posters

25 Creative Pictogram Recreations of Popular Movie Posters

A movie poster plays an important role in movie marketing. Sometimes, all it takes is a mesmerizing photo, the right mix of colors, and an attention-worthy font to grab our…

10 Beautiful Examples of Illustration in Web Design

10 Beautiful Examples of Illustration in Web Design

The current state of technology allows us to create different user interfaces. From plain, oversimplified designs where all the information is placed in one screen to massive, overwhelming experiences with…

50 Perfect Examples of Flat Web Design for Inspiration

50 Perfect Examples of Flat Web Design for Inspiration

Usabilia asked 100 web professionals for their opinion on the future of flat web design, and a huge 68% said that it is here to stay and not just another…

10 Fantastic Examples of Dynamic Centerpieces in Web Design

10 Fantastic Examples of Dynamic Centerpieces in Web Design

All is fair in love and the fight for clients, especially in the digital world. Unlike the real one, where you can use various psychological tricks to foist the goods…

Exploring the Elegance of Line Typography in Web Design

Exploring the Elegance of Line Typography in Web Design

Typography is one of those things that we can talk about forever. Just remember our outstanding articles where we discussed The Rise of the Hand-Written Typography Trend on the Web,…

Fantastic Movie Posters with Simple Geometric Layouts

Fantastic Movie Posters with Simple Geometric Layouts

Calum Rolland, a graphic designer from Kirkcaldy, Scotland, has recently created a fantastic and unique series of Swiss Style influenced movie posters, using only simple geometric shapes and layouts. The…

30 Political Propaganda Posters from Modern History

30 Political Propaganda Posters from Modern History

Over the past hundred years, posters have been used as a very useful tool for war-time recruitment, persuasion, motivation, vigilance and also, at times, to instil some form of guilt…

20 Inspiring Examples of Flat Illustrations in Web Design

20 Inspiring Examples of Flat Illustrations in Web Design

At the moment it does seem that every newly launched site or app has adopted the flat design trend. What started just over a year ago as merely a unique…

The Beautiful Biro Pen Portraits from Mark Powell

The Beautiful Biro Pen Portraits from Mark Powell

Mark Powell, is an artist known for his work with old, tattered, and stamped envelopes that serve as his canvas for Bic Biro drawings.

20+ Unusual & Creative Layouts in Web Design for Inspiration

20+ Unusual & Creative Layouts in Web Design for Inspiration