Targeted Inspiration
by Dave Tufts - March 27, 2008 / 2:11pm
You're sitting at your computer.
Photoshop is open. 1024 pixels of nothingness.
You need inspiration.
There are a million gallery sites that you could visit. There's Smashing Magazine. But my favorite tool is CommandShift3. CommandShift3 describes itself as "Hot or Not", except, instead of clicking on hot babes, you click on hot websites. Users are shown two websites and click on whichever one they think looks better.
I use CommandShift3's tagging system to see a list of well designed sites within a specific industry. If I were about to start working on a museum website, I'd go to:
http://commandshift3.com/tag/museum
Before starting work on a financial services site, I might check out:
http://commandshift3.com/tag/financial
Or maybe something in the health care industry:
http://commandshift3.com/tag/healthcare
You get the point, just type a tag into the url and see what comes up. Bonus feature—if you type in a word that isn't in their tagging database, you get a really cool 404 page.
Photoshop is open. 1024 pixels of nothingness.
You need inspiration.
There are a million gallery sites that you could visit. There's Smashing Magazine. But my favorite tool is CommandShift3. CommandShift3 describes itself as "Hot or Not", except, instead of clicking on hot babes, you click on hot websites. Users are shown two websites and click on whichever one they think looks better.
I use CommandShift3's tagging system to see a list of well designed sites within a specific industry. If I were about to start working on a museum website, I'd go to:
http://commandshift3.com/tag/museum
Before starting work on a financial services site, I might check out:
http://commandshift3.com/tag/financial
Or maybe something in the health care industry:
http://commandshift3.com/tag/healthcare
You get the point, just type a tag into the url and see what comes up. Bonus feature—if you type in a word that isn't in their tagging database, you get a really cool 404 page.
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I've totally been looking for exactly this!
I also forgot to mention, once you're viewing the tag gallery, you can enter a battle for that tag.
For instance, in an 'auto' battle - http://commandshift3.com/tag-battle/auto - you're more apt to see a wider range of sites than in the 'best of' gallery - http://commandshift3.com/tag/auto