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Examples of Extreme Minimalism in Web Design

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I found most of these sites to be pretty low on content...

Yes, they are confusing the two. We have a minimal shopping site (http://stylous.com/) that is not minimal on content.

My co-founder, Steve Dekorte, is the primary designer. His blog uses a minimal design without being minimal on content (http://dekorte.com/blog/blog.cgi) as does his programming language (http://www.iolanguage.com/).

Really nice. I've sent a link to my girlfriend to see what she thinks as a "user" :) Comment was that she can't send a link to a ring (gasp) to me, until I've explained she can when she clicks on the product and that font is a bit on the ugly/unreadable side (firefox). thought you might wan't a feedback. Keep up the good work.

Thanks for the feedback! The dilemma with links to individual pages is that we allow arbitrary scrolling, and we don't want to create a history entry for each item as you scroll (would break back button). A possible solution would be to have scrolling snap to pages.

Re: Font, What version of Firefox is she using?

ok - she got used to linking stuff once she figured out she can link to a product and it will scroll to it (probably because it looks different than regular web stuff), since I got spammed with "look at this! look at this too! this is so nice, look at it..." :) firefox is 3.5. One major hurdle though, which you should definitely work on is to point out who are you buying from and where do they ship to - we live in europe for example, so we couldn't figure out how to buy stuff, which is - according to her - fabulous and cheap!

We only aggregate US retailers at the moment :-(

Just wanted to comment on how elegant your site is - it's almost a work of art I think. That being said, does being simple and elegant sacrifice the ability to cross-sell other products simultaneously?

Cross selling isn't the primary source of distraction / clutter on most shopping sites. I think we could easily add it to the inspector panel that comes up when you click on an item.

Thanks for the nice comment!

I wish more shopping sites were like yours. I just found some neat stuff I like within seconds. Even on Amazon which is fairly usable, there's so much crap to distract your eye it becomes ridiculous.

Yeah, it's easy for the design to be minimal when the site doesn't do much.

(Not mentioned) My personal favorite: http://www.hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com...

Thoughtful comment in source:

I like how it's white on black instead of the typical black on white. Perhaps because of the impeding doom.

That's actually a category called "single-serving websites"

http://kottke.org/08/02/single-serving-sites

30 examples is a bit high; many of these are just clones of each other or similarly unremarkable. Alittle selectivity wouldn't hurt... Still, it's better than their list of 105(!) twitter webapps.

Nice, they mentioned my site (simplecountrycodes.com)! I got some awesome feedback from HN on the design of that, so thanks everyone :)

I love d-e-f-i-n-i-t-e-l-y.com the best. I should register a site that explains the difference between principle and principal.

I like that websight. I'll send emale to it's author with mor suggestions.

There are quite a few basic grammar sites that could (and probably should) be developed.

  Their, There, They're.
  We're, were.
  i before e...
  The correct spelling of many common words.

My personal pet peeve:

    s/independant/independent/g

You're and your

I especially love when someone says something along the lines of: Your so stupid.

it's a bad habit of mine to prematurely judge people's intellect solely on their ability to differentiate between the two

bobsqu

http://www.angryflower.com/itsits.gif

All of the pages (that I checked) look pretty minimal for me - I'm using links2 to browse at the moment. At least one, #12 IIRC (no tabs!), is using /#pagename for page links; presumably for SEO but giving nothing for non-javascript users.

I guess if you're after an accessible site then you're not going to go with them.

I love Konami Code Sites. http://konamicodesites.com/

Using vimperator it's impossible for me to execute the Konami Code.

Doesn't "shift+i" do the trick?

http://watrcoolr.us/ http://hacker.watrcoolr.us/

Sites I made for myself to deliver the most interesting news to me.

I love http://isitgoingtoraintoday.com/. All the weather info I need.

http://whattimeisit.com/ - very useful!

It's not loading for me. Firefox's "Connection timed out" page is pretty minimal, though.

im getting a blank page white page, hilarious right?

More focus on typography and less focus on graphics continues to be the trend.

this is dumb http://istwitterdown.com/ but this is dumber http://isistwitterdown.com/

Link should be http://www.isistwitterdowndown.com/

Reminds me of the old trick of typing (including quotes) 'bash: command: command not found' into bash.

You're right, I messed that up when moving the domain. Fixed now. (Yes, the site is very silly.)

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