With fierce competition and high demands within the web design industry, many web designers tried their best to express their creativity through their designs, making their work as impressive as possible by coming with the best design for their clients. However, while most of those complicated and intricate web designs make a strong impression to their viewers, some designers took the risk to make things as simple as possible by creating minimalist web designs instead. Most often with the right kind of designs, their gamble and the risk they took is worth it, because sometimes less is more and amidst all the complicated and mind design, the viewers find it refreshing to see something simple that stands out from the crowd.

Generally, those who were first expose to minimalist art normally find the artworks, boring, colorless and lack of design. However, at a closer look one might also find it’s style refreshing, simple and clean. Minimalism is a genre of abstract art; the style of this genre mainly focuses on simplicity by removing superfluous elements in the works. Minimalism allows one to focus more on the structure of an artwork or layout by exposing the underlying theme. For this reason this genre was applied to create a simple web design. In fact, this theme is celebrated in many artistic field, including photography, architecture, music and last but not least web designs. And one of the world’s most celebrated brand, Apple also takes up minimalist web design for their official web page.

For this very topic we have carefully selected a selection of minimalist web designs that we deem inspiring for our readers, in fact some of these simple web designs even have a few hidden kicks. Among many other reasons, due to the lack of style factor and complicated designs, minimalist web design tend to give of a more modern outlook to the web design. The lack of style and the large amount of white space removes all clutter from the design and exposes the essence such as the typography and the arrangement of a web page.

Among our selection of minimalist web design inspiration, one might find a few recurring themes or trend for this particular design genre. Some of the recurring trends to take note of are typography, grid or arrangements and the use of colors in their design. Typography plays a large role in minimalist web designs, seeing that this genre offer little to no graphic designs or effects. Not only that the arrangement or grid for this genre is also just as important to balance up the white space to give of an organized and clean impression to the viewers. However, just because there is little use of colors in this genre, one could use them for subtlety to draw eye attention to a specific area.

All and all, we hope you find this post inspiring seeing that the benefits of operating a minimalist web design page gives one less clutter, less confusion for the viewers and makes this site easier on the design management on codes.

Sideshow Press

A minimal designed site that features both graphic and typography.
Sideshow Press

Mr Simon Collison

A minimal web design template that display itself in grids with interesting clean and simple graphics.
Mr Simon Collison

Sucram

A website of a designer that features his work as an online portfolio.
Sucram

Neue Blanc

A site designed with minimal colors, graphic but carefully arranged.
Neue Blanc

Highway Man

Minimalism with a splash of colors.
Highway Man

52 Weeks of UX

A site that features different articles and topics throughout the year.
52 Weeks of UX

Typographica

A site that features the people’s favourite typeface.
Typographica

François Deladerrière

With only 3 display pics and nothing unnecessary that will cause clutter to a clean and beautiful web design.
François Deladerrière

Pill And Pillow

One of those unusual minimal websites designed with different colors to make things a little more interesting.
Pill And Pillow

We Are Empire

A quirky web designed by displaying only its logo at its main page.
We Are Empire

Nice Device

A minmal theme with subtle graphic touches.
Nice Device

Franklin Gaw

The minimalist theme of the web design almost manage to extend to its photography genre.
Franklin Gaw

BAA

Website of a web development company which was established in 2009.
BAA

Intuition

Each important link will flash in a different color and slides down to reveal more information when you scroll your arrow over it.
Intuition

Helen & Hard

Placing a colored picture in the centre of the page will definitely draw attention from the crowd.
Helen & Hard

Yaron Schoen

The designer left a very personal message to his audience, letting them know in a humorous way on his current profession.
Yaron Schoen

Positively Malancholy

The designer made full use of the white space and the layout for this web design.
Positively Malancholy

Offset Media

Another minimal themed online portfolio but one with a splash of colors.
Offset Media

Aentan

A website laden with subtle graphic finishing.
Aentan

Site Inspire

A site that only uses striking colors on important points such as its logo.
Site Inspire

Ben Hulse

A well balanced white space and organise layout makes the design easy on the eyes.
Ben Hulse

JC Photography

Minimalist theme often run very well with photo web sites.
JC Photography

soup

Not all minimalist theme have to come in dull tones or colors.
soup

Lisi Design

The button design makes the site more interesting and fun despite its minimal themed.
Lisi Design

Terroir

An organised web designed by only using grey scale tones.
Terroir

Marius Roosendaal

A clean and organised webs display in various grid size.
Marius Roosendaal

Antwork Studio

A fine example of a typography minimal theme.
Antwork Studio

Nizo

A minimal themed website that comes incorporated with parallax scrolling.
Nizo

Aker Brygge

A website that displays graphics in grids making its appearance look neater and more organised.
Aker Brygge

Pure

One of the minimally designed theme offered for WordPress.
Pure

Arty Papers

A website that uses a very subtle monochrome colors and pink in its logo.
Arty Papers

Concentric Studio

A simple and clean design for a studio’s website.
Concentric Studio

Amy Levy

A website designed for a public relations company in LA.
Amy Levy

Mediaflex

A website for a media company that specialises in motion picture production.
Mediaflex

Estate Black

A sleek and classic design of a wine web site.
Estate Black