Since I’m big for vectorial shapes I couldn’t help mentioning oh joy’s floreal menu. Flowers and herbs silhouettes are quite realistic drawn without any excessive flourish, keeping the website’s greenery imaginary far from beeing redundant or excessively ornamental.
For further inspirational suggestions, I recommend that you have a look at Oh Joy’s Shop and Blog: you can [...]
When you combine two differents web design patterns you can get either a mess or a really interesting new element: in this case, Stuff’s menu gets a compact and solid appearence, having shifted the properties pertaining to breadcrumbs trail to the horizontal menu.
As you can see, home page’s rainbowy menu (at the top of the screenshot) [...]
When we first saw it, our jaws fell to the floor. Freezed, we’ve been keeping on staring at the screen, mesmerized by what our doubtful eyes were seeing.
Then we burst out laughing.
Then we started worrying about how one could possibly categorize this crazy web 2.0 app.
The quirky idea IJML (that’s our short for I Just [...]
To be true, we should rename this category “menu & navigation systems“, so don’t worry if you find this post slightly off-topic.
For now, I just want to show you this clever navigation system implemented by OnTheRoad.
OnTheRoad is essentially an online travel journal that lets you to keep trace of your trips uploading, via mobile or [...]
When you’re in charge of designing a website, the first and foremost thing to do is understanding what kind of audience is expected, who are your readers and which level of web or digital awareness they have. According to the results of this first and fundamental enquiry, you can decide which style is the best.
When I first [...]
Nestingmode is the first-time parents’ guide for ultimate baby products.
For most of us: so far, so boring.
But what really sets this site apart from the heap of children’s related blogs and websites, is the quality of its illustrations and icons which are neatly drawn and pleasantly colourful.
The navigation menu also with its tabs, shaped as [...]
Odopod is a extremely creative digital agency and its site certainly is characterized by the choice of a strong and unusual color.
The menu has a hover effect with an outside expansion of the block that I find very pleasant for its fluency; a similar movement, but downwards, is activated when you expand a link.
Filtersage is a community for music and/or movie maniacs based ont the discovery of new connections between items. In the top area, the main features of its web site are combined in a very compact and clear way: global and sections navigation, search form, links to sign in and sign up forms, social and RSS buttons, links [...]
Jeff Croft’s web site menu has a very pleasant ajax transition caused by mousing your mouse over any top label. Furthermore, the graphic of the selected item is consistent throughout the site and is used to create buttons and call-out elements.
Zcope is an online tool for tasks and projects management. The navigation menu is a variation on the classic “buttons menu”; in this case an arrow connects the selected item to the contents and leads user’s look downward.
SiteInspire is a typical inspirational gallery of web sites with a peculiar kind of tag cloud, made by mixing two types of buttons: the dark ones represent the “real” tag associated with the site, the light gray ones represent the category the tag is associated with.
A classic: the drop-down menu (in this case graphic designer Anton Mircea’s portfolio).
Tab navigation in Web Agency Sunrise Design is well evidenced by the use of icons and ample spacing.
Creative Depart is, like Behance, a community of creatives, illustrators and graphic the have the opportunity to show their works.
The navigation menu is very interesting because of it is that dynamically change the content below.
Jokeyphone is an application, still in Beta, with which you can see users video-recorded jokes, create channels, participate in contest and possibly upload your own jokes.
The flash menu is funnny: iconsand the slight mouse over animation are very enjoyable.
