Current Style in Modern Web Design

In this article I try to sum up the current state-of-the-art in graphic design for web pages (late 2006, but still highly relevant today), and identify the distinctive features that make a modern web page look fresh, appealing and easy to use.

The key feature of modern web design is simplicity.

I’m glad to say that web design is better today than ever – and it’s continuing to improve. That’s not just because there are more web sites out there, so more good stuff to look at. There’s still an awful lot of crud too. I just think that more web designers know more about how to design than ever before.
The examples below (which I’ll roll over time) show excellent modern graphic design technique. They all look good, and are clear and easy to use.

Hotties

I’m not saying these are the very best sites out there, just that they’re typical of today’s best design.

» Ash Web Studio

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» Macaroon Design

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» The Startup Business School

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» The Alternative Energy Store

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» Forecast Advisor

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» iconbuffet.com

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» Really Wild Flowers

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» Save Longstone Edge

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» iomega.com

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» linkedin.com

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» mozilla.org

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» plaxo.com

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» Prolotize

Who is "ME" in Social Media?

10 Revealing Infographics about the Web

The use of graphics as a tool for educating viewers is a great approach to sharing information. It’s an effective way of composing otherwise boring information and data into an easy-to-consume and fascinating way.

In this article, you’ll discover a variety of infographics and visualizations associated with the internet. You might just learn a thing or two about the web by looking at these awesome artworks!

Click on the image to go to the larger version of each graphic.
1. Web Trend Map is a graphical representation of the top domains and personalities on the web. It maps websites and notable persons onto the Tokyo subway system as train stations with their popularity and success represented by their position and size.




2. Who Participates and What People Are Doing Online is an infographic by BusinessWeek that shows who’s online and what they’re doing. The graphic reveals that the most popular demographic on the internet include persons between the ages of 18-26.

3. Internet Traffic shows the sources of internet activity in 2008. It illustrates that China, constituting 17% of the world’s web users, is the largest source of traffic, with the United States as the second (this may change in 2012 based on growth projections).

Collection of Social media Info

Storytelling is becoming increasingly important as I continue to evangelize social media at Cisco. And like most corporations we use PowerPoint to tell that story. I’ve been working on some fancy PowerPoint’s lately and have been searching for the right graphics to help tell that story. Which has lead me to this collection of great social media infographics:

Collection of Social Media Infographics

Collection of Social Media Infographics

Sources:

• 25 Mind Blowing Social Media Infographics aggregated by WebDoctus 
• Understanding the Power of Social Media with Infographics aggregated by Design Reviver
• Social Media Infographics aggregated by Oscar Berg

If you have any cool, new infographics to share, by all means – share!