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10 Content Friendly Website Designs Inspire

10 Content Friendly Website Designs Inspire | Design Revolution | Scoop.it
A marketer walks into a meeting, ready to see the newest designs for their client’s site. The new design is beautiful. It makes everyone weep with joy. It’s also totally devoid of text.
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Love some of these web designs create to support content ideas. 

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Birth of the Cool: 2012 UI, UX Design Trends

Birth of the Cool: 2012 UI, UX Design Trends | Design Revolution | Scoop.it

User Experience UX Software Design 2013 Trends. Agree, big 2013 design trends include:

* Visual Marketing & Design Simplicity (lean content, lots of Infographics and other data visualizations).

* Content Marketing heavily influenced by mobile first and mobile's content constraints (speed, small, UI).

 

Would add bubbles about the size of "mobile first" for:
* Predictive Analytics.

* Real Time "read the cookie, fire the design" triggers.

* Move to branching business logic controlling design elements.

 

I may be the only champion of the freedom from design boxes movement. I just don't see UX and design functioning in such limited ways for much longer. Design is most impactful when it is relevant and we have enough persona and behavior information to "read the cookie, fire the design" now. 

Why aren't we?

I saw this same problem with the move from A/B to multivariate testing. MVP testing puts such a load on shifting THINKING and creative that adoption was slow. AI-like web design has the same problem. Once you create a branching path algorithm based on personas and behaviors you need LOTS of creative to support the move.  


Oh, this isn't the ONLY time I've been up on a soapbox all by my lonesome.  


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Adopt A Yeti And 200+ Cool Website Designs Inspire

Adopt A Yeti And 200+ Cool Website Designs Inspire | Design Revolution | Scoop.it
Web Design Gallery / Best Design Awards - updated regularly with new designs, Wordpress Themes and a design blog.
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Cool website design examples here to steal from :). 

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25 Simple yet Graceful Website Designs Inspire

25 Simple yet Graceful Website Designs Inspire | Design Revolution | Scoop.it
Ever thought of trying 25 Simple yet Graceful Website Designs. Experience the wonders of simplicity and uniqueness allowing for easy navigation and faster loading time.
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Love these simple, graceful yet muscular website designs. 

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The 20 Best E-Commerce Website Designs Inspire

The 20 Best E-Commerce Website Designs Inspire | Design Revolution | Scoop.it
The e-commerce sector has long been known to develop websites that did not put much focus on design. They tend to get very cluttered and bogged down, consistently suffering from not being user friendly.
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Agree with most of these.

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8 UI, UX Tips For Amazing Software or Website Development

8 UI, UX Tips For Amazing Software or Website Development | Design Revolution | Scoop.it
UI & UX are key factors that influence on user behavior. UI & UX solutions can lead to a successful tandem between software development and end-usage experience.
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These tips rock. Very specific and several are new to me. For example, despite my Director of Ecommerce roots I did not know that 40% of purchases on an ecommerce website are impulse buys. These tips help you maximize the impulse and convert visitors to buyers and advocates.

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22 Red, Red, Red Website Designs Inspire

22 Red, Red, Red Website Designs Inspire | Design Revolution | Scoop.it
Red is such a powerful colour, it provides emotion and a great emphasis on detail. With a dark, grey colour scheme - red can be used to emphasis text, navigation menu and more.
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Red is a favorite color, but online a little red goes a long way. Red is aggressive, attention getting and stress producing. On the other hand several of these websites show how to use red to conquer, to distinguish and to ROCK. 

Which are your favorites? 

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95 Websites From Design Agencies Inspire

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You probably won't have a better chance to show off all your potential if it's not by designing a website for your own agency or web studio. It's time to push all those ideas and concepts forward. 95 inspiring Websites of Web Design Agencies.
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When WE are the client what do we create? Here are 95 great website designs created by web design agencies as self promotion.

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20 Examples Of Beauty Killing Conversion In Web Design

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I love beautiful websites. They seduce, charm, hypnotize and rarely convert worth a hoot. Conversion is about clear signals and obvious paths (read Krug Don't Make Me Think). I agree mystery plays a role, but every website element must pass the five second rule.

If you can't understand what to do in five seconds neither can your customers and you have infinitely more patience than any customer. Conventions such as large heroes and four columns of products stacked up one on another exist because they work. A "hero" is the largest image on a webpage. 

These examples make for beautiful films, but they sacrifice conversion for beauty. Some websites can afford to sacrifice cash for beauty most want both. Beauty is important. My first website, was created in 1999 (you can see it here: http://scenttrail.blogspot.com/2010/02/martins-first-web-site.html ).


That site created all those years ago could look rougher and more "garage band" than any website I would create today or than the large ecommerce site my team and I managed for seven years when I was a Director of Ecommerce. We had numbers we had to beat every day or seek employment elsewhere :).   

Design and beauty influence trust and trust influences conversion. These 20 examples create a boatload of trust, but frustrate a visitor's desire to invest that trust in action. Don't do that is the best advice I can give you (lol). Don't do that UNLESS your site is art and not commerce.  

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