14 Design Retrospectives

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.