14 Design Retrospectives

Posted in InspiringAug 04, 08 | 11:28 pm

Mubashar Iqbal

Looking at the results of a good website design helps improve and inspires our own designs, getting into the mind of a designer can be invaluable.

There don’t seem to be many design postmortems published these days, but some designer do discuss their designs and the reasoning behind what they did.

Below you’ll find a collection of blog posts from designers discussing their website designs:

Website: Erratic Wisdom
Tom Fadial: http://erraticwisdom.com/2008/01/21/the-new-erratic-wisdom

Website: Monacle
Dan Hill: http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2008/04/monocle-design.html

Website: Coolspotters
Mark Boulton Design: http://www.markboultondesign.com/work/detail/coolspotters/

Website: Problogger.net
Ben Bleikamp: http://www.bleikamp.com/2007/08/11/redesign-of-probloggernet/

Website: Adii
Adii: http://www.adii.co.za/2007/09/03/the-redesign-post-op/

Website: Positive Space
http://www.positivespaceblog.com/archives/the-positive-space-redesign-rationale/

Website: Avalonstar
Bryan Veloso: http://avalonstar.com/blog/2008/mar/30/design-distortion/

Website: Veerle’s Blog
Veerle Pieters: http://veerle.duoh.com/blog/comments/design_phase_of_my_new_blog/

Website: Jeff Croft
Jeff Croft: http://jeffcroft.com/blog/2008/feb/16/more-details-redesign/

Website: Darren Hoyt
Darren Hoyt: http://www.darrenhoyt.com/2008/05/23/a-site-redesign-for-spring2008/

Website: Blog Hearld
Thord Daniel Hedengren: http://www.blogherald.com/2008/08/02/the-blog-herald-relaunches/

Website: MSNBC.com
Mike Davidson: http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2007/11/msnbc-redesigns-taste-the-rainbow

Website: AIGA.org
Jason Santa Maria: http://v3.jasonsantamaria.com/archive//2007/03/01/aiga_redesign.php

Website: ExpressionEngine.com
Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain: http://www.digital-web.com/articles/redesigning_the_expressionengine_site/

If you know any more please post links via the comments.

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Author: Mubashar Iqbal
Mubashar Iqbal is the creator of Most Inspired, a web designer and developer, who has been building websites for over 13 years. You can read his blog at Mubashar Iqbal

inspiring commentary

August 5th, 2008 at 8:32 amTy (tzmedia)

Hey thanks Mubs!
I really appreciate a good design retrospective.
I’m sure I’ve seen a few other recent ones, and didn’t realize how much I enjoy reading these.
It is something to watch and maybe we can post a follow-up list, so let us know if you’ve spotted any website design retrospects lately.