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As an aside, I noticed the above-the-fold design is very similar to [ElementFE](http://element.eleme.io/#/en-US). What's up with that? Did this particular design with the slanted line originate somewhere else or are they the same people perhaps?

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It creates a smooth visual flow. Straight horizontal lines chop your website into blocks. This, on the other hand, separates your content without breaking it apart. Your link is a good example because it also has these overlapping graphics that "hang" into the next section. Stripe [1] makes heavy use of this.

[1] https://stripe.com/

Wow.. that is a much more striking use of the "slanted" layout. Superb.. it has a little bit of "materialize" feel to it but without the cold / harsh aspect of material (imho). Or maybe Material isn't done very well in most sites / apps I've used (often times they tend to have a ton of space that's not really "white space", just badly designed empty space.. Google loves to do this by forcing mobile app layouts into a desktop site).

Also this is a great use of animations. The page is fairly static, and animations are used in interactions (mouseover mostly).

Adding this site to my inspiration bookmarks :)

I've seen this style on a few different sites. I think it's just a design fad, not something that was copied from the site you mentioned specifically.

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