But people here, and myself, are going to tell you that those are not well designed sites. Well designed sites are mostly text, good typography, follow all accessibility guidelines, etc.
I'm a minimalist but I don't think that well designed necessitates "mostly text."
The main concepts that I look for are:
- Speed / performance - does the website load and finish rendering quickly?
- Focus - does the website guide my eye & attention to the most important/relevant information first? Or does it instead distract me with superfluous information.
- Accessibility - This is a broad topic that doesn't just only mean "friendly for screen-readers." It includes things like: is the website easy to read and navigate? Does it not interfere with native browser functionality (websites that prevent the right-click context menu or do not play nicely with the back button are not accessible IMO). This is all in addition to being accessible for special needs users.
- Intent - similar to focus but more specific to message and communication: do I immediately understand the purpose of this website and what value it offers me? A lot of marketing websites, IMO, completely fail on this point for me.
There's probably more, but I think the above describes the general categories. As I try to think through other examples they tend to fit nicely as a sub-point/example of one of the above.
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If you are looking for web sites that look fancy like apple.com
https://godly.website/
But people here, and myself, are going to tell you that those are not well designed sites. Well designed sites are mostly text, good typography, follow all accessibility guidelines, etc.
I'm a minimalist but I don't think that well designed necessitates "mostly text."
The main concepts that I look for are:
- Speed / performance - does the website load and finish rendering quickly?
- Focus - does the website guide my eye & attention to the most important/relevant information first? Or does it instead distract me with superfluous information.
- Accessibility - This is a broad topic that doesn't just only mean "friendly for screen-readers." It includes things like: is the website easy to read and navigate? Does it not interfere with native browser functionality (websites that prevent the right-click context menu or do not play nicely with the back button are not accessible IMO). This is all in addition to being accessible for special needs users.
- Intent - similar to focus but more specific to message and communication: do I immediately understand the purpose of this website and what value it offers me? A lot of marketing websites, IMO, completely fail on this point for me.
There's probably more, but I think the above describes the general categories. As I try to think through other examples they tend to fit nicely as a sub-point/example of one of the above.