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Friday Focus 02/03/12: Scrolling & Sliding for Good

Happy February Friday Focus! Our featured websites of the week highlight informative, for-good topics in a vertical storytelling format.

Friday Focus 01/06/12: Look Alive!

Our first Friday Focus for the New Year is all about animated designs, a bit on the subtle side but sure to pique your interest nonetheless.

Friday Focus 12/23/11: Happy Holidays!

It’s that time of the year once more, so let’s soak up some Christmas cheer with these designs. Happy Christmas Friday Focus!

Friday Focus 12/09/11: Hello, My Name Is

This week’s featured designs business card websites, some of them looking literally like cards containing contact information of their owners. That means very minimal layouts but still all compelling experiences.

Friday Focus 11/25/11: Diamonds

Hope everyone had a lovely Thanksgiving! This week’s (black) Friday Focus shines the spotlight on sites that use diamonds (or rhombuses) as a major graphic element in their designs.

Friday Focus 11/18/11: Moustaches for Movember

Last week we celebrated 11/11/11; this Friday Focus we’re looking at inspiring moustache-themed designs in celebration of Movember or men’s health awareness month.

Friday Focus 11/04/11: Side Scrolling

Like the parallax effect, horizontal scrolling is a popular technique to grab people’s attentions and making a website stand out. It also challenges the usual top to bottom browsing we are accustomed to, so it should always be used with caution. Let’s see if this week’s featured designs are on point. Happy Friday Focus!

Friday Focus 10/07/11: All Mapped Out

This week’s Friday Focus features designs revolving around maps, both as embellishment and a tool.

Friday Focus 09/30/11: Traveling Clouds

Clouds are one of the most popular graphic elements on websites and designers have upped the ante by making them move across visitors’ screens. Let’s see how this week’s featured sites did it.

Friday Focus 09/23/11: The Dip

Happy Friday Focus! Today we’re looking at designs with a bit of a “dip” in them—one content area leading into another with a nice little curve. Can you spot them? Read on!

Friday Focus 09/02/11: Over the Moon

This week’s Friday Focus features designs that incorporate the moon in them.

Friday Focus 05/13/11: Isometric Buildings

This week’s designs feature illustrations with the isometric perspective in them, giving the sites an interesting birds-eye view.