Web & Patterns: patterns for a better web.

Yummy Gum  is a small Dutch graphic design studio: its bubble-logo will change color every time a page is refereshed/loaded.

Kidmondo error page is based on the product logo expression: in the plain version the kid’s smiling while here is sad.

Panoramio is a photo-sharing community based on Google maps. The path is a fairly important part in web sites navigation and here has a proper evidence. It’s a nice idea to indicate the first step using a small icon.

Helen Dardik, a cosmopolitan illustrator currently residing in Canada, creates beautiful and fanciful patterns.

Swedish studio Identity Works has several things of interest: one of them is the search form that, instead of appering in its usual place (usually upper left or center) is at the bottom page, just above browser status bar. A few years ago, this area of the screen would  generally been regarded as a point [...]

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 [...]

The booking form in Vacation Rental Station: a search engine to find accommodations to rent worldwide (for the moment the database is almost empty).

The bio recap of Hawaiian designer Michael Whalen is a simple listing in Arial, where hovering color changes from line to line: hovering over a link (text in dark gray) turns it into a button.

It looks like a web site of MTV network, but in fact it’s the web site of a Pentecostal church: I really like the page background style that I would call sparkling carpet.

The footer of the photographic studio Symbol is visually closed by two labels containing links to Facebook and Twitter.

Google rules and the minimalism of this search form  is a clear example: an input text and nothing else … more explicit than that!

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.

Duoh!, the belgian web agency run by Veerle Pieters and Geert Leyseele, has a web site pagination that’s not only graphically pleasant but is also associated with a nice label. Veerle Pieters, among other things, was recently named one of 30 full most influential people in the world of web design.

The list of  Net Awards recent winners, a contest organized by Net Magazine, has some features that set it apart from the usual menu with vertical expansion: first, the opening movement is both upward and downward; second, the visited links and their boxes change color; third, you can browse items both using the arrows located to [...]

Mixing different user interface patterns very often leads to innovative solutions and more than once Yahoo played a lead role in changing web users behaviours: in this case, the breadcrumb trail of Yahoo TV allows the user to change section clicking on a drop-down menu (beside Tv Home) without having to return to the home [...]

We love Worpress is a showcase dedicated to the most original WordPress themes: the form to report a site is embellished by the use of icons in the input text.

The peculiarity of the rating system in Colectiva’s blog, a creative agency based in Guatemala, is that as you move the mouse over the heart icons to vote, they read FRESH. It’s a simple idea that diversifies the design of a component otherwise pretty similar to others.

Onethemepermonth deals with the sale of  WordPress themes: every month a new theme is issued at tthe special price of $ 15: the call-out element works well and draws user attention to the price, but should be perhaps graphically refined.

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.

Skitch is a tool that allows you to edit and share your images very quickly, plus keeps a history of images created and makes their online publication quick and easy.

Sweet & Saucy is a small company specializing in the production of spectacular wedding cakes: the footer, designed in a old-fashioned style, has  funny  mixer-button-icon that carries back to the home page.

Reading this Japanese blog that linked us using Google Translate is quite a surreal experience;: apparently Web & patterns matches the description “lead to heart to be the same design, web design collection.” Actually, I wanted to understand what it s the use of  the button with their hands applauding. I couldn’t find it. Nevertheless [...]

365icon is a directory that provides for free an icon or a set of icons every day.

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.

It’s nice (and sadly quite rare) featuring in Web & Patterns an Italian web sites: in this case we want to introduce you SNAV, a shipping company. The entire site is set in a clear and generally well done visual treatment and I especially like the booking form that allows you to select your route by [...]

A classic: the drop-down menu (in this case graphic designer Anton Mircea’s portfolio).

Impulse Studios footer conjugates both the functions of customers login and map site navigation.

Mojizu, an online community dedicated to characters design, has a very funny rating system: the site’s logo, designed as a ninja, runs above the numbers following the mouse pointer. Even the details of the vote have been carefully designed: the logo frozen or burning represent the highest or lowest point of the scale.

Absolute Bica is the portfolio of Bryan Kohlmeier: you can customize the background image by choosing between four different settings, inspired by various times of day.

Oursignal is one of my favorite websites ever: according to an algorithm developed by Stateless Systems, the top most viewed pages in digg, reddit, del.icio.us, hackernews and yahoo buzz are presented as one page grid . The size of each box is proportional to the relative number of votes while background colours represent the degree of [...]