A Showcase of Effective Minimalism in Web Design

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1. José Mota November 27, 2009 at 12:01 PM Reply

   The Buckenmeyer & Co.’s website took my breath. Excellent typography and whitespace.

2. Stu Greenham November 27, 2009 at 12:06 PM Reply

   Great post! I love Minimalist! Give my site a look see what you think 😀

3. Rhonda Payne November 27, 2009 at 1:24 PM Reply

   Minimalist? Try this for size: http://www.danpetter.net/

4. Danny Cassidy November 27, 2009 at 3:03 PM Reply

   Great post, just goes to show that a well thought out grid and carefully considered typography goes a long way.

5. Design Informer November 27, 2009 at 4:00 PM Reply

   Nice showcase, but it would be great if you can explain how each minimalism design is effective. 🙂

6. Daniel November 27, 2009 at 6:23 PM Reply

   A nice selection I have just jumped on the minimal bandwagon! Fantastic for personal sites since they require little work and maintenance! Shame I’m never included on these lists though 🙁

7. Martin November 27, 2009 at 7:19 PM Reply

   hm. i`m not so sure. all these websites of minimal website collections i visit don`t look really minimal to me…
   what do you think?

8. Tyler November 27, 2009 at 7:34 PM Reply

   Nice list, always love to look at others’ minimalistic designs. I’m always surprised to see how so little can go such a long way.

   Recently jumped on the minimalistic bandwagon myself. I like to think the design works, but I made it, so of course I’d think that.

9. Taylor M. November 27, 2009 at 8:11 PM Reply

   Thanks for posting, this is a nice list. Although I would say most of these are very well known sites that lots of people have seen. I do think Auxiliary Design’s site is a really nice minimal site.

10. toque November 27, 2009 at 9:12 PM Reply

    ummm…these are minimalist…they’re just all white with nav at the top.

    if anything this collection should be called Grid-based sites 101. very few of these are minimalist “by choice” but rather by structure.

    this is a bad list of B- websites.

    1. Tyler November 28, 2009 at 1:32 AM Reply

       These are hardly B- websites. “A Working Library” for example I think is great.

       I think when you say these are bad sites, you really are saying “Minimalist websites aren’t my cup of tea.”

       But as far as the category goes, these are great examples to look at.

11. toque November 27, 2009 at 9:13 PM Reply

    these aren’t minimalist….is what i meant to say.

12. JHAY November 27, 2009 at 9:57 PM Reply

    Awesome showcase! Thanks

13. Alex November 28, 2009 at 12:51 AM Reply

    http://www.minimalsites.com .. you are welcome 🙂

14. Matt M. November 28, 2009 at 1:08 AM Reply

    This is probably one of the best recent compilations of minimalist design I’ve seen and it’s great! I actually modeled our company’s current website (http://www.forgeseo.com) off a variety of minimalist styles and we’ve gotten a lot of compliments on how navigating the site is extremely easy.

    There are a lot of sites that are overdoing the web 2.0 style and it ends up killing usability and readability – minimalism is an optional alternative to this.

15. Alex Flueras November 28, 2009 at 2:26 AM Reply

    Useful list, thanks for sharing. Here is another minimal, clean site: http://www.studiowber.com

16. Kai Chang November 28, 2009 at 2:57 AM Reply

    Tumblr has some great minimalist themes available. One of my favorite Tumblr designers is this guy:

    http://rinich.com/

17. Camucreative November 28, 2009 at 9:23 AM Reply

    I wanna lick the ‘A way back’ website. Seems tasty.

18. Jordan Koschei November 28, 2009 at 10:22 AM Reply

    Websites are particularly conducive for minimalism. You found a nice collection.

19. MiikkaV November 28, 2009 at 3:03 PM Reply

    Actually I don’t think those all can be called minimalistic…

20. Qoska November 28, 2009 at 3:50 PM Reply

    Always the same ones…..

21. Josh November 29, 2009 at 12:17 AM Reply

    I like the “Corking Design” example you used. I traditionally think of minimalist designs as lighter designs, but this is a good example of a minimalist design that’s darker with a bit of grunginess. Automattic’s website is another example of a minimalist design: http://automattic.com/.

22. Anton Ranestam November 29, 2009 at 7:47 AM Reply

    Minimalism in web design is the new “IT” if you ask me. It’s grown rather popular to build Minimalistic way.

23. Rahul - Web Guru November 29, 2009 at 11:02 PM Reply

    Very good inspiration…

24. Rudi November 30, 2009 at 2:07 AM Reply

    simple, cool, smooth, but still kickass
    nice collection bru

25. Chris Robinson December 3, 2009 at 8:20 PM Reply

    Great roundup, some really nice work

26. Sherman Hilcher October 12, 2010 at 10:38 AM Reply

    It depends on the way you look at it and exactly where that you’re coming from on the topic really. In the long run beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but Now i am with you on this one.