Gallery of Minimal Design Websites
I must have a different meaning for the word minimal. I get what this gallery is going for and kudos to the site and lots of the designs, but it ain't showcasing "minimal" in my book. :)
Hey, creator of Minimal Gallery here. Thanks to everyone who's visiting. The word "minimal" doesn't have a lot to do with minimalism in this case. When starting out 10 years ago this was correct, but nowadays I'm just focussing on websites that don't do scroll-hijacking, don't involve a bunch of crazy 3d-animations or in general aren't simply usable. So the only real requirements are "functional" and "usable". Sorry for the confusion - feel free to reach out with feedback. For example I only recently added the jobs section because it was requested many times. If you have any other ideas, don't hesitate to reach out.
Loads of these websites are valid businesses and the “minimal” visual aesthetic serves their purpose.
Yet loads of comments here criticise them because they are not “minimal” in use of resource (defaults), “minimal” in use of information presentation, or “minimal” in structure, as if these are the only true minimal.
All these websites would fail their business intent if they stripped back to these ideals (a branding agency with no css: c’mon), and this gallery would fail, and this gallery wouldn’t have generated the interest to make the front page of hacker news.
I for one appreciate this type of content in the hacker news mix. But the comments can often be blinked engineering drivel.
Where are these? https://thebestmotherfucking.website/
I don't want minimal, I want usable.
Give me Web 1.0 sites of yore, give me Japanese internet. Give me websites that are god damn usable.
How about I just leave this link here?: https://1kb.club
A lot of these aren't technically or graphically minimal
Quite a few are graphically maximalist in fact, like that record one
Edit: holy fuck that Record Label one is the website equivalent of a maximalist Jacob Collier 100 part harmony
How did it even get on this list?
does this site even have anything to do with minimal design other than the name of the site being 'minimal gallery' ? the top of the page says 'Curating beautiful & functional websites' (unrelated to minimalism) and the about page doesn't mention anything about minimalism or 'minimal design'
Not minimal, and looks both dated and low tier, sorry.
You might as well browse dribble if you want newer content-less splash-pages.
The websites are simple, but not minimal.
The word "minimalism" often gets misused, not just in website design.
Pallet.supply is anything but minimal.
Here's one of my favorite minimal sites. It lets you consume a content, buy stuff, and join a mailing list, which are the only 3 things websites do anyways.
Does anyone have an actual list of websites that can be consider minimal?
A lot of creative websites that don't load or function correctly.
These look pretty fat compared to the likes of Berkshire Hathaway https://berkshirehathaway.com/ and McMaster https://www.mcmaster.com/ and Gov.UK https://www.gov.uk/
Most seem to lack content and usefulness. They look like they were made to showcase the design.
A lot of them are not minimal.
If they don't show up right under DilloNG, they can't be minimal.
This is brutalist, not minimal.
Beautiful designs. Definitely not minimal, I dare say.
More like "gallery of ugly sites".