With 2019 in its final throes, it’s time for the traditional round-up of the best web designs.
If you want to know how things stand in the world of web design, don’t miss the 10 picks I’ve chosen for this list of the best web designs of 2019-2020.
Fasten your seatbelts — the flight is about to take off.
Best web designs of 2019 2020
Yuto Takahashi
We open our walk through the top ten reference web designs for 2020 with the website of maker and web designer, photographer, retoucher and fashion producer Yuto Takahashi.
A highly visual site that gives us the best in web design and some of the web design trends we’ll be seeing on the best sites on the internet during 2020.
What stands out most here is, on the one hand, the «raw» feel of the whole site, and on the other the use of type as another design element.
What’s more, the user experience is fantastic, since we can move through the site dynamically with a custom cursor that’s very much on trend.
I recommend visiting this site so you can spot these and other things that make it worthy of a place among the reference web designs for 2020.
Flavinsky
Flavien Guilbaud is a freelance art director and graphic designer with more than 6 years of experience, based in Paris and Amsterdam.
They specialise in:
- Interactive design
- Web design focused on user experience
- Fashion brands
With all that, it isn’t hard to see why this web design belongs on this list of the best web designs of 2020: it has everything you need to become one of the sites of the year.
- Large-format type.
- A custom cursor.
- Very dynamic navigation.
- Stunning design.
- Extreme typefaces.
- Cutting-edge design.
Rogue Studio
What stands out in this web design is the brutal, wild use of type and a custom cursor that lets us move quickly and dynamically through the whole site, where the copy is pared right back and yet, as is the trend in web design, nothing essential or necessary is lost.
Designs like this are a clear example of the web design trends of 2020; over the coming year we’ll see more and more sites using this kind of communicative format.
Vlnc Studio
The Paris design studio Vlnc specialises in creating digital experiences for its clients, in producing social media content, in conceptualising interactive projects, advertising and brand creation.
Through their website they set out to show us all the potential their studio holds.
A wild design that goes straight at you with no graphic squeamishness whatsoever, showing us exactly why it belongs on this list of the best web designs of 2020.
Take a look at their site to enjoy web design with big type, dynamic transitions and a very pleasing user experience — you’ll come away feeling refreshed.
Precision Run
Putting together this year’s list of the best web designs of 2020, we realised how few companies have dared to build a web design that’s genuinely cutting-edge, bold and mindful of the web design trends for 2020.
But here we have one of those exceptions: this site’s web design meets every requirement for a place on this list.
- Big type.
- Vintage feel.
- Distressed images.
- Strong desaturated colours.
- App-like menu
Through a large side menu that opens on click we can jump straight between the sections that make up this site’s design and, if we prefer, we can navigate by scrolling vertically with the mouse — a convenience that’s very much a trend in web development and user experience.
Digital Marketing Conference
This web design sits at the very top of this list of the best web designs for 2020, since it combines almost every web design trend for the coming year.
A 360-VR web design built to blow your mind while you get at the information about this digital marketing conference.
It’s genuinely remarkable to see how they’ve managed to combine so many strong points without any of them overshadowing or trampling the others.
We have:
- Dynamic navigation.
- Big type.
- A retro-futuristic feel.
- Strong, elegant colours in an urban future style.
Of course, don’t just take my word for it — judge for yourself by clicking the link and visiting this excellent site, deserving of a place among the best web designs of 2020.
We Cargo
Continuing with picks that aren’t a professional showcase of a web design and development studio’s talent, here’s this one.
It’s a site whose purpose is to promote an industrial transport event, a kind of gathering of speakers from the sector.
Putting together this round-up of the best web designs for 2020, I noticed that the events sector keeps its web design very current in order to attract its audience, and I imagine that’s a purely commercial matter.
Events and conferences are about the future, and it would make no sense to try to attract an audience with an outdated, charmless look.
This pick caught our eye for its technological feel, its big type and the dynamic transitions we come across as we move through the site’s design.
DEMO Festival
The web design for the DEMO festival, devoted to motion design, is another that deserves a place among the best web designs of 2020, since it brings together several of the web design trends for the coming year.
Full-screen type with motion, plenty of motion — as you’d expect.
Vladimir Gruev
Returning to work by professionals showing us what they know and can do, we have the web design and development of Vladimir Gruev.
A very on-trend design that underlines their ability to satisfy even the most demanding user.
What stands out is how they’ve captured our attention through a design with 100% usability and astonishing simplicity.
We predict
To round off this walk through our top ten best web designs of 2020, here’s a treat: the site Redcollar devoted to 8 of the web and graphic design trends that are going to be everywhere in 2020.
Here nothing is left to chance — everything, absolutely everything, is perfectly oiled in this web design which, of course, belongs among the best web designs of 2020.
How we judged them:
Having seen all the material, it’s time to explain how we assessed it.
- Originality
- Web design trends
- Use of new technologies
- Impact
