Oh it's unconventional alright. When I see a link formatted as https://www.example.com/ and click it, the last thing I expect is for it to vanish and become "Copy Link | Visit website". Boggles my mind.
Not sure if I'm with you on this one. I see what you mean but I also have a hard time to understand what's going on on these sites. So in my eyes these are quite exactly what the author called it. Unconventional. However I like the idea of getting these concepts shown and shared just to see what could might work or what causes a lot of attention.
reminds me of early Flash days where everyone was so excited about not having to use tables/frames/etc and started making "organic" sites instead of structured sites. so usability was neat and interesting, others were outright confusing. weird styles have their place, but people like to follow trends and use weird styles when it is not appropriate. these tend to feel like square pegs in a round hole.
Girbaud, which was once a cool clothing brand, had an all-Flash site for years. It looked like a 3D stack of cubes, and if you clicked on the cubes, interesting things happened. Short videos and pictures would pop up, audio clips would play, and then they'd fold back into their cubes. Very cute.
But it was really hard to order stuff. Just finding out where the items for sale were was tough.
Their site today is totally vanilla. They have product pages and "Add to Cart" buttons, like everybody else.[1]
It is neat, but personally I'm not wild about it. Most of these examples are terrible for accessibility needs, and otherwise a frustration if you visited to find specific information. I do appreciate the novelty though.
I found https://gizmo.party/ via your site, which I am also very much enjoying! Very fun use of vibe-coding, which I’ve been overall pretty resistant to.
Although I do wish it wasn’t such a black box — I wish the code for the gizmos could be examined, exported, or embedded elsewhere.
I get the idea but these feel like those demoscene things people make for really old 8-bit computers.
What I am looking for is inspiration for presenting some actual content, for example, stories with a beginning, middle and end, with meaningful call to action forms and text that is designed to be read rather than 'shapes on a page'.
I am not dismissing what goes on here, or even the demoscene, it is great to see. However, I think that people are struggling to read these days, so lots of text, no matter how well presented, is just not what people read. How do you get people totally absorbed without it being video or a game?
I understand the UX of the UK government websites where information is presented very clearly and is engaging (if you need to do something to do with health, taxes and whatnot). But this super-clear approach doesn't convey that an immense amount of effort has been spent on presentation.
I am also bored of normal Wordpress style websites with the tedious carousels and whatnot, Squarespace fits this 'yawn' style too.
Although I did not find a website to be deeply engaged in with loadmo.re, I am inspired and impressed. There is much to borrow from here and many 'experiments' that are trying to do things new. Props to the site maintainer for doing the research to find these 'diamonds (in the rough)'.
Oh it's unconventional alright. When I see a link formatted as https://www.example.com/ and click it, the last thing I expect is for it to vanish and become "Copy Link | Visit website". Boggles my mind.
All this amazing art and stuff on this site and all you could do was find something nitpicky to complain about? Sure says a lot…
It says that UX matters even when doing art.
This is not unconventional-- this is the conventional web I want. I want the internet to be a groovy place again.
Rave on ravers.
Not sure if I'm with you on this one. I see what you mean but I also have a hard time to understand what's going on on these sites. So in my eyes these are quite exactly what the author called it. Unconventional. However I like the idea of getting these concepts shown and shared just to see what could might work or what causes a lot of attention.
reminds me of early Flash days where everyone was so excited about not having to use tables/frames/etc and started making "organic" sites instead of structured sites. so usability was neat and interesting, others were outright confusing. weird styles have their place, but people like to follow trends and use weird styles when it is not appropriate. these tend to feel like square pegs in a round hole.
It does feel a lot like the Flash era.
Girbaud, which was once a cool clothing brand, had an all-Flash site for years. It looked like a 3D stack of cubes, and if you clicked on the cubes, interesting things happened. Short videos and pictures would pop up, audio clips would play, and then they'd fold back into their cubes. Very cute.
But it was really hard to order stuff. Just finding out where the items for sale were was tough.
Their site today is totally vanilla. They have product pages and "Add to Cart" buttons, like everybody else.[1]
[1] https://www.girbaud.com/en
It is neat, but personally I'm not wild about it. Most of these examples are terrible for accessibility needs, and otherwise a frustration if you visited to find specific information. I do appreciate the novelty though.
Found this on there, which is really neat: https://slingshot.trudy.computer/
It took me a while to figure out what this is even supposed to be. Visiting from a computer with no webcam displays a confusing site.
That's Trudy! https://www.trudy.computer/
thank u for playing!
I found https://gizmo.party/ via your site, which I am also very much enjoying! Very fun use of vibe-coding, which I’ve been overall pretty resistant to.
Although I do wish it wasn’t such a black box — I wish the code for the gizmos could be examined, exported, or embedded elsewhere.
Respect to the people making these and some are really cool but damn these sites make me appreciate conventional web design.
Does anyone have an aggregate of websites like these? I love this type of content (I am a shit designer and want to get better).
Try this https://www.are.na/trudy-painter/cool-websites-yj6tfjbuhp8 From there, you either find single websites, or other people's lists of websites they like.
It is random walk down a rabbit hole, but quite entertaining (and inspiring).
omg thanks!! <3
a few more sites (rather than aggregators):
- https://cargo.site/templates/samples-specimens and https://cargo.site/templates in general (scroll down and then scroll horizontally to see a lot more)
- https://html.energy/html-day/2025/index.html
- a few inspiring friends and friends of friends: https://julipode.net/ , https://katarinamazur.com/ , https://kotc.life/ , https://suneinyneeenan.github.io/Enhydrax/
You mean an aggregate of aggregation websites?
Yes. :)
Makes me think of all the higher-order awesome lists on GitHub
Awesome list of awesome lists. https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome
Don’t forget Wikipedia! :D
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists
Someone should make a list of these types of lists!
"'LoLoL' redirects here."
Yes... yes it does. LOL
How I miss Kaliber 10000 (aka k10k), Design Is Kinky, Pixel Surgeon etc.
https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/kaliber10000-2003
How do I submit https://taylor.town/?
I get the idea but these feel like those demoscene things people make for really old 8-bit computers.
What I am looking for is inspiration for presenting some actual content, for example, stories with a beginning, middle and end, with meaningful call to action forms and text that is designed to be read rather than 'shapes on a page'.
I am not dismissing what goes on here, or even the demoscene, it is great to see. However, I think that people are struggling to read these days, so lots of text, no matter how well presented, is just not what people read. How do you get people totally absorbed without it being video or a game?
I understand the UX of the UK government websites where information is presented very clearly and is engaging (if you need to do something to do with health, taxes and whatnot). But this super-clear approach doesn't convey that an immense amount of effort has been spent on presentation.
I am also bored of normal Wordpress style websites with the tedious carousels and whatnot, Squarespace fits this 'yawn' style too.
Although I did not find a website to be deeply engaged in with loadmo.re, I am inspired and impressed. There is much to borrow from here and many 'experiments' that are trying to do things new. Props to the site maintainer for doing the research to find these 'diamonds (in the rough)'.
ironic that I can't get to the bottom of the home page to read the about/subscribe/submit, because it keeps loading more sites in
especially considering they actually have inputs for suggesting a website and signing up for their newsletter (that can't be filled out)
A pretty unconventional way to prevent more than 1000 submissions, I guess.
Good for the site engagement metrics
Wow every preview is screen recored on iPhone