I love the simplicity of the thoughtbot website design. The interactions on the home page portfolio images is really smartly done. The hierarchy is kept simple and gets more dense with content as you scroll down the page, with very minimal copy until after you see the work. The responsive design is also well executed.

Looks as if Happy Cog just rolled out a new design for fonts.com. Here’s a super detailed blog post about it.

I like a lot of this new design. My particular favorite is the main image slideshow and how the main site colors change out as you experience it. Good hierarchy and minimal color and craziness make this a really solid design update IMHO.

Really great interaction design on this portfolio website. I love the hexagons and how they grow a bit when you mouse over them. The way the headers load when you hit a new page is a nice little surprise too. Lovely bold yet minimal color palette. Really enjoyed checking this site out.

Cool Dribbble post on it too. Where Julien explains in more detail the thinking that went into the design:

Of course the first thing I wanted people to see is my work. A sneak peak of my latest work displayed in an original way. Once you click on it you see full size screenshots. Below, I wanted to answer questions that clients usually asked me… like “what’s your story?”, “What is your specialty?”. I answered those questions using the power of infographics! I love them!
So that’s for the homepage.

Really nice scrolling, single-page website design. I really like how the elements slide into view as you scroll down the page. The diagonal movement is very dynamic compared to most parallax technique sites like these. Lovely.

This site is definitely a strong rival to Heroku in terms of presenting complex information in a beautiful manner, not to mention showing off some pretty impressive features. A beautiful constructed and varied layout coupled with eye-catching infographics makes for an enlightening and fun user experience. The ‘Architecture’ and ‘Pricing’ pages themselves are worthy of individual entries!

jQuery Nuts Bolts & Bling

Doug and Giovanni discuss his jQuery talk from last year’s Front-End Conference in St. Petersburg Florida. There’s a full video of Doug’s talk on his website if you want the details. They go into what Doug does for appendTo on a daily basis and where he fits into their flow.

Learning jQuery

The company Doug works for appendTo has created a free jQuery learning resource at learn.appendto.com. It’s explained as the following:

Learn jQuery & JAVASCRIPT for free
Level up your skills with our on demand, pragmatic training solution. No signup required. No catch. No kidding.

So check that out & don’t miss out on The Front-End Design Conference 2012!

About: Doug Neiner

Doug Neiner is a front-end web developer with a love for semantic markup, powerful CSS, and efficient, reusable jQuery/JavaScript. With over 12 years of web development experience, Doug works to combine his love for design with his passion for new technology as a Senior Designer at appendTo, LLC.

Follow Doug on Twitter: @dougneiner

The new(ish) rdio.com design is beautiful. I love the visual engagement that the design drives you into as you make your way down the hierarchy of the page. From light to dark, from sparse to dense it’s very well put together. I think the colors get so much better and interesting as you scroll down, the blue and orange on the topmost section are a little blah, but overall as a whole the site design is just classic. Well done indeed!

The pulpfingers.com site is simple gorgeous. I love the orange/red and brown/black coloring, it’s unique looking and along with the stark graphic illustrations gives it a nice sense of rememberability. There are some neat little visuals here and there on this site that sets a nice fun tone for this group.

Holy wow, Eephus League Magazine: eephusleague.com/magazine/(via this @dribbble drbl.in/ecEd)

— Dan Cederholm (@simplebits) May 21, 2012

Re: the previous tweet, now that’s how you publish a magazine on the web. Embrace the vertical scroll (which is the web’s natural interface)

— Dan Cederholm (@simplebits) May 21, 2012

Absolutely beautiful implementation/design of an online magazine. I can’t get enough of this!

Lore previously known as coursekit (this subsite is a beautiful experience in it’s own right – check it.) is a simple looking layout, but is very well balanced and packs a punch impact wise. It’s both subtle and complex at the same time wich just makes me smile.