Does anyone have a web design inspiration site that's focused on sites that just look good and have a good UI & UX instead of collecting the most out there canvas animation thingies? Those might look good, but I can't get inspired by something that I can't replicate without a team of multidisciplinary people doing 3D design, WebGL, etc.
I used to have a number of good ones added to my RSS reader, but they have slowly cease to update. I could google for inspiration sites like that, but I know google will only give me listicle SEO spam.
What happened with the "above the fold" rule, that we put important info where the user don't need to scroll.
I clicked through some of them and I only see huge titles with parallax.
In e-commerce space you might take a look at: https://theheadlessclub.com/. It's exactly what you're looking for. Quote from about page:
"Most directories tend to put emphasis on shiny and showy hyper-animated web experiments. Unfortunately, many of these projects fail when criteria like performance, mobile, usability, and accessibility are considered. It’s hard to find one single resource on the internet that would combine both the technological excellence and highly polished design in ecommerce space. The Headless Club started as an internal agency tool to foster ecommerce best-practices across our development team. Now we’re sharing our findings with you."
Disclaimer: I'm the co-author (with folks from commerce-ui.com agency). We'll soon make it not specific to headless but to all e-commerce stores.
Headless means that you're using e-commerce platform only via API and build your front-end in whatever tech you want (next, nuxt, Remix, etc). It's different from a traditional approach when e-commerce platform handles front-end (HTML templates rendering). In Shopify can do both.
Funny that headless is now considered "traditional," when that was considered standard for a decade and a half. Relying on the platform was considered amateur.
"Traditional" is just another way to say "what was once the norm", so your comment is a bit pleonastic.
Is relying on the platform no longer considered amateur? If yes, call me old fashioned, because I've never liked those platforms...
Those might look good, but I can't get inspired by something that I can't replicate without a team of multidisciplinary people doing 3D design, WebGL, etc.
I'm with you. 98% of these lists are worthless for inspiration because they're mostly at student portfolio pieces or mock ups.
Show me some good accessible, fast, commercial designs that I can be inspired by and learn from, not some design agency's 3D spinning radishes blocking the text.
Bonus points if they manage to work in display advertising in a tasteful way.
I have a similar gripe that many of these design inspiration websites that I'm trying to use to inform all kinds of design objectives. They seem to be singularly focused on landing pages, but there are great ideas and implementations out there to full applications design. I wish we could find more inspiration for Interactions, user flows, how to show a lot of information in one viewport without overwhelming the user, and so on.
While not exactly what you asked for and instead a single article containing a collection of advice, albeit concretely illustrated in an arguably useful fashion, I can attest at least that I've found this one useful:
I used to have a number of good ones added to my RSS reader, but they have slowly cease to update. I could google for inspiration sites like that, but I know google will only give me listicle SEO spam.