Web & Patterns: patterns for a better web.

Although from a functional standpoint it doesn’t have any practical avantadge, the drop down menu/ button in which is embedded user’s avatar  is very effective in creating an enjoyable user experience.

Glossy buttons really bugged me: despite this, I love these ones.. 
I noticed that this social  choose a style s diametrically opposed to the minimal-functional-googlish look of its major competitor, Anobii. An accidental or a conscious differentiation?

You broke something? Nextwave error page brings out the hidden geek in us.

Apple breadcrumbs trail is not used consistently within the website and , among other things, there are two slightly different version of it: 

in the online store is located at the top and the path first link is a house shaped icon that leads to subdomain store.apple.com; 
in the “real” website is placed at the bottom of the [...]

The Guardian online offers an interesting example of  breadcrumb navigation used not only for the purpose of showing the current website section, but also its possible subsections (Politics, Business, Health are indeed subsections News). 
Vivid colors are applied to graphic elements and titles of each section, in contrast to the majority of online newspapers that tend [...]

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Kosmix grid, evidently modular but not static, it’s designed on the purpose of allowing its customization: users can move blocks of information, thus personalizing their own home page.

Purplerockscissors website is clear, consistent and show an interesting use of Futura ExtraBold. 
For those who want to build a sliding portfolio, I recomend this example, where all is well calibrated and the tab “view now” lays on the bottom right, without spoiling the cleanliness of the whole.

If you are looking for inspiration or just a little “web fame” , avatars wall created by Webdesigner Depot could be a good starting point!

A full Apple style for Mobile login mask: it’s clearly inspired by a minimalism so fashionable today, while on the other hand provides a wide range of visual signs.

A nice page and a little different from the usual to report a not so nice disservice.

These  panels that slide side to keep out the three fundamental pages of the site are quite of interest. 
One could apply this system to present search engine results, listing, for example, in the main page lists the textual elements, and putting video, maps, images in other pages.

The aesthetic result is certainly not the strong point of these icons that are very understandable and clear even if they’re only 10px wide.

We absolutely love icons (maybe I’d better to call them illustrations) collected by  we-heart-icons guys.

This “live feed” listing is really an example of good design.
On a very clear and clean grid, are neatly arranged items of very different types (tweets, post photos from Flickr, videos from youtube) and yet the whole is very clear, readable, enjoyable.