Loadmo.re: design inspiration for unconventional web
loadmo.re
loadmo.re
Rave on ravers.
I feel like we can have our cake and eat it too.
Girbaud, which was once a cool clothing brand, had an all-Flash site for years. It looked like a 3D stack of cubes, and if you clicked on the cubes, interesting things happened. Short videos and pictures would pop up, audio clips would play, and then they'd fold back into their cubes. Very cute.
But it was really hard to order stuff. Just finding out where the items for sale were was tough.
Their site today is totally vanilla. They have product pages and "Add to Cart" buttons, like everybody else.[1]
What I am looking for is inspiration for presenting some actual content, for example, stories with a beginning, middle and end, with meaningful call to action forms and text that is designed to be read rather than 'shapes on a page'.
I am not dismissing what goes on here, or even the demoscene, it is great to see. However, I think that people are struggling to read these days, so lots of text, no matter how well presented, is just not what people read. How do you get people totally absorbed without it being video or a game?
I understand the UX of the UK government websites where information is presented very clearly and is engaging (if you need to do something to do with health, taxes and whatnot). But this super-clear approach doesn't convey that an immense amount of effort has been spent on presentation.
I am also bored of normal Wordpress style websites with the tedious carousels and whatnot, Squarespace fits this 'yawn' style too.
Although I did not find a website to be deeply engaged in with loadmo.re, I am inspired and impressed. There is much to borrow from here and many 'experiments' that are trying to do things new. Props to the site maintainer for doing the research to find these 'diamonds (in the rough)'.
Although I do wish it wasn’t such a black box — I wish the code for the gizmos could be examined, exported, or embedded elsewhere.
Yes... yes it does. LOL
- https://cargo.site/templates/samples-specimens and https://cargo.site/templates in general (scroll down and then scroll horizontally to see a lot more)
- https://html.energy/html-day/2025/index.html
- a few inspiring friends and friends of friends: https://julipode.net/ , https://katarinamazur.com/ , https://kotc.life/ , https://suneinyneeenan.github.io/Enhydrax/
It is random walk down a rabbit hole, but quite entertaining (and inspiring).
But UX does not matter when experiencing art. OP is entitled to feel nit picky and pissy and a critic because of the normal way they experience the web. It does not mean his critique matters.
Even worse, this website is less analogous to the art itself and more analogous to an art gallery, which means that now my perception of the art being showcased is now unfairly negative through no fault of the actual art on display. If I'm trying to view some painting at the Louvre only for the curator to jump in front of me and say “Wait! Do you really want to view that painting or do you want a notecard saying where it is?”, damn straight am I going to be annoyed as all hell at such antics, and it's going to ruin my experience through no fault of the actual artist.
... UX is the only thing that matters when experiencing art.
More to the point, though, in this case the art is purporting to be a functional website, so we're absolutely allowed to critique it on the grounds of being bad at that.
Yet you're here, commenting.
Besides, "amazing art stuff"? Please, it's an aggregator that links to experiments in interaction design.
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