Web Design Inspiration – Where to find it

Where can you find web design inspiration?

So you’ve found a good web design agency and are keen to get down to the business of designing your website. You then find yourselves a little bit stuck for web design inspiration. You want your web design to be exciting, innovative and great to use, but you’re unsure of what you actually want it to look like. Where can you go for web design inspiration? This article looks at some of the place that a web design agency and their clients can go to find web design inspiration.

Company branding

One popular place to look for your web design inspiration is your own company branding. This can be a good way to get an idea of the sort of design and colour that they have used before, and it can give you a good idea how this might translate into a web design.

It is possible to use things such as the logo and any other graphics that might already exist as the foundation for the rest of the web design. After all, those graphics will probably need to be incorporated into the website, so it can be very helpful to get a feel for them first. Even if you are planning to create a new logo and graphics to go with the site, anything that might have been designed already can still offer a useful starting point.

Other websites

The internet is an increasingly competitive place. The vast majority of businesses have a website these days, and there are hundreds of millions more sites out there. At first, this can seem a little daunting, especially if you are a small business looking for a web design agency to create your first ever website, but the web can also be a fantastic source of inspiration.

You could do some market research and look at the websites of your competitors, and businesses that represent what you would like your own business to be one day. You can see what they have done with their own designs, see what works and what you might like to do differently to reflect your own business and design aims.

As well as looking at competitor sites, you can also find inspiration from any number of sites on the internet. Most of us browse the web on a regular basis and doing so, we can get a good feel for what we like and what we don’t, what we think works and what we’d rather avoid. Even if, as a client, you are only able to give an overview of what you’re looking for, any inspiration you are able to find will be a help. A good place to start is Smashing Magazine, one of our personal favourites!

Design blogs and tutorials

Another online source of web design inspiration can come in the form of blogs and tutorials. These can be a great place to find out about the latest techniques and see what other developers are doing with websites, this is something that a web design agency looking for inspiration might find particularly useful, but there is also nothing to stop clients from having a look themselves.

Blogs and tutorials can be informative and educational, giving you an overview of how to turn your inspiration into reality, so they can have a valuable practical purpose as well as a visual one.

The sky’s the limit

Finally, whether you are a web design agency or a client, don’t limit yourself when it comes to looking for web design inspiration. Keep an open mind; it’s something of a cliche, but you never know when you will find your inspiration. You might be inspired by a picture in a magazine, a view while you’re out walking or something you read in a book. The internet is a wonderful place to look for web design inspiration, but don’t forget that there is also a whole world out there that can also be fantastic and provide us with that last push we need to really get stuck into a project.