Design Shack showcases inspiring web design, alongside resources and tutorials for you to succeed in the same way. It is carefully curated and edited by Josh Johnson and David Appleyard.
Here’s to the design minimalists. Here’s to focusing on functionality, simplicity and basic design principles. Kick the tires all you want on these sites today – you’re still going to love using them tomorrow.
This is our roundup of 35 stunningly simple, marvelously minimal web designs. Enjoy!



































Have some favorite minimal sites you don’t see on the list? Comment and let us know about them.
some very good examples i never heard of before, thanks for the post!
Although i have already seen most of them in css galeries, still a great list for inspiration
Great list with some unseen designs for inspiration.
Thanks for your work
Nice collection. There are quite a few more minimal sites over at siteInspire too…
http://siteinspire.net/showcase/category/style/minimal
If you’re looking for some great websites design, please take a look at my flickr webdesign inspiration set :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/evasion/sets/72157613205486839/
Just reached 1200 sites, and still growing ! All pages are tagged for better search…
Cheers,
site inspire is great!
evasion: really nice set
Thanks for sharing this info
Thank you for the share
Great share! I really like the Ned one. There’s another – Minimal Photoshop actions site
There is something so relaxing about minimalist sites. This modern world is so crazy & out of control that clean simple design lets our spirit stop and take a deep breath.
By the way, don’t look to my site for such… images, maybe music though.
I have always loved minimalist sites…! They just have a different x-factor in them :P
Nice post! Very useful :)
Please check this link:
http://kpobuddy.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/top-class-100-blogs-for-website-designers-and-web-developers/
Mine! Mine! :)
See my tweet from today: @wschumac I love minimalist websites. Look at 35 great sites here: http://tinyurl.com/m36ydw
good working
With all due respect, these selections have been used and re-used on a thousand different minimalist web design lists. If you have been following design at all – and I mean even slightly – you probably have seen these sites too many times already – not to say they aren’t great sites – they certainly are. But if I see “subtraction” in one more list I’m going to go crazy with boredom. No offense, but I would have thought a gallery of this stature would have more to choose from than these sites offered in this particular list.
Not to be a kill joy but “Subtraction” is using a free wordpress template. There are lots of sites that look exactly the same.
Very nice list