This week’s crop features designs that literally break out of the box. Time for this week’s Friday Focus!

This week on Friday Focus: designs that tilt to one side and keep the perpendicular lines away.

This week on Friday Focus: designs that prominently feature user-submitted content, particularly images. How do you prevent monotony and preserve quality on these sites? Let’s find out.

Let’s celebrate the new season with stunning designs that display the best nature has to offer. Happy Friday Focus!

Here’s an old-school pattern that hasn’t gone the way of the dodo: left-aligned designs. Symmetry is great, but asymmetry? Even better. Welcome to this week’s Friday Focus!

Going dirty has never looked this good! It’s grungy websites this week on Friday Focus.

Just because monitors have gotten bigger doesn’t mean we should jump into wide layouts all the time. See how these designs make use of narrower widths effectively.

This week on Friday Focus: excellent websites that happen to have fixed elements in them.

At one point in our internet lives, we learned to avoid typing in all caps, because it meant we were yelling. At another point, we became attachmented to typing in lowercase, because it looked and felt cool. We see a lot of designs going lowercase in many portions of text, but nowadays, going uppercase is is all the rage. These designs seem to pull that off quite well.

Who’s in the mood for some red designs this week? Let’s start the show!

Welcome to the first Friday Focus of the year and the new decade! Here are some fantastically designed websites that should inspire you to be more daring and adventurous than ever starting right now. Ready?

Here’s another interesting look that’s being used in websites lately: blueprints. See how they’re translated into this week’s featured websites on Friday Focus.