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14 Excellent Flat Design Website Examples [For Inspiration]
Latest Modern Flat Design Websites in the Wild
Flat design has been a very strong trend for the last couple of years and it still manages to keep its position high enough to see other trends come and go. There’ve been predictions about the end of flat design as well as arguments for finally embracing a post-flat world. But instead, the genre survived to this day by adapting and will continue to evolve into much more interesting styles, thanks to creative designer minds. Without further ado, today we’re going to prove that flat isn’t going anywhere soon with a collection of 14 excellent flat design website examples.
All websites in the article are new and live, launched in the past couple of months. So let’s enjoy the creations of great web designers from all over the globe.
1. Cardiac Surgery Guide: Flat Style with Illustrations and UX Animations
This website is a self-manageable audiovisual guide that accompanies a patient from the time he is diagnosed with a heart problem until he is operated on and returns home. It combines flat design with illustrations, interactive UX animations and uses colors to navigate the user throughout the different options. In short, it’s visually appealing, compact, and helpful.
- Subject: Medicine, Surgery Guide
- Design Strengths: Interactive design, seamless micro animations, compact
- Country: Spain
- Designed by: La Negrita
2. Studio 9P: Grand Opening, Animations, and Lots of Memes
A very original concept that conveys a true understanding of internet culture to the deepest parts of the web. Of course, this is expected from a studio that crafts digital adventures and has the web as its playground. Here we have a deep flat design that works well with the wild dynamic experience set by the multiple animations, transitions, and flashy imagery. Another thing that we loved is the copy part that matches the overall design with a cool combination of text and custom green flat emojis.
- Subject: Web Development, Portfolio
- Design Strengths: Dynamic design, smooth transitions, great choice of fonts and custom emojis
- Country: France
- Designed by: Studio 9P
3. Bubble Kush: Combines Cartoons and Real Objects as Elements
You get the feeling that you want a cold sparkling drink the moment you land on the homepage. a simple, yet effective animation of flat shapes imitating bursting bubbles lets you know what this website is all about: selling cola that hits different. In addition, we love the combination of simple flat design with real product photos serving as elements. It makes the design casual, fun, and interesting, without being overwhelming.
- Subject: Food and Beverages, eCommerce
- Design Strengths: Fun loading and header animation, a great combination of cartoon design with real objects as part of the experience
- Country: Canada
- Designed by: Polyform Studio
4. Mila Real Estate Professionals: Clean and Simple, but Very Engaging
Mila is a new French insurance tech company specializing in brokerage, insurance, digital, and real estate within the same team. The website is very clean and stylized, but far from boring. In fact, it makes good use of simple and clean outline animations not overwhelming the code or the design, as well as seamless micro animations and a great contrasting color scheme.
- Subject: Real Estate, Agency
- Design Strengths: Simplicity, clean design, and code, seamless micro animations, and effective illustrations.
- Country: France
- Designed by: AKROLAB
5. La Puce à l’oreille: Beautiful Cartoon Interface and Cool Navigation
La puce à l’oreille creates podcasts for children and teens. The website offers podcasts, collaborations, events, and interactive experiences for different ages, aging from 4 to teens. It has a colorful flat cartoon interface, and amazing navigation, placed in interactive shapes. Definitely worth checking out.
- Subject: Real Estate, Agency
- Design Strengths: Beautiful color scheme, well-designed cartoon interface, interesting navigation
- Country: Canada
- Designed by: Akufen
6. Houses of the Century: Old School Flat Design with Smooth Micro Animations
Doma Veka, “House of the century” is Russian construction and design company specializing in private houses. The website capitalizes on professional looks with clean design, impeccable structure, big high-quality images, and smooth micro animations. Less is more, and here’s a lot of more.
- Subject: Real Estate, Construction, and Design of private houses
- Design Strengths: Professional design, simplicity, good structure, big images, and clean smooth micro animations.
- Country: Russia
- Designed by: Mikael Sagirov
7. Alzavino Wine Tavern: Modern and Classy Web Experience
A modern and immersive digital presence for Alzavino Wine Tavern. The website is minimal, clean, and professional, while the choice of colors and fonts make the modern and luxurious design more familiar and cozy.
- Subject: Bars and Restaurants, Wine Tavern
- Design Strengths: Clean, Minimal, easy to navigate, modern design with big titles, high-quality images, and cozy color scheme, suitable for the brand.
- Country: USA
- Designed by: Gardner Design
8. 2Create: Minimal Flat Design, Typography, and Animations
We couldn’t fail to include the mothership website, especially after having so much fun with the redesign. Here we decided to create a single-page website with a scroll to section navigation. Using the brand’s signature colors and brand font, we took advantage of the simple flat design to focus on a more interactive experience with smooth animations, typography, and making your stay fun. After all, It has to be fun, that’s what it’s all about! <3
- Subject: Web Development, Web Design, Brand Development
- Design Strengths: Clean, Minimal, easy to navigate, single-page, big titles and visuals, smooth micro-animations and has Simon in one of the photos.
- Country: Bulgaria
- Designed by: htmlBurger (Hi! ;))
9. Pablo Farias Portfolio Website: Beautiful Interactive Gallery
A masterfully designed website suitable only for a master craftsman. The website has a beautiful museum look with an interactive gallery where you can enjoy Pablo Farias’ pieces of art violins, violas, and cellos, watch the process, read an interview or get the contacts.
- Subject: Craftsmanship, Creation of Musical Instruments, Portfolio
- Design Strengths: Big bold fonts, museum look, dynamic interactive gallery
- Country: Italy
- Designed by: ET Studio
10. Roger Haus Illustrator Portfolio
The portfolio website of Roger Haus, a Spanish award-winning digital illustrator, offers a fun experience through the author’s works with a fair share of surrealism, just like Roger likes it. We see a flat design website example that mixes brutalist style with minimal, and ads cool cartoon illustrations and hand-drawn elements into the mix.
- Subject: Digital Illustrations, NFTs, Freelancer
- Design Strengths: Originality, Clean design, uses the artist’s illustrations as elements, a touch of surrealism
- Country: Spain
- Designed by: Julia Guseva
11. Online Interview Anni Wang: Creative Interview Format
Website of Anni Wang, a UX Engineer who provides a colorful and interactive way to interview the designer in order to find out if she’ll be a good match for your project. We instantly fell in love with this website for the creative idea of an interview format. You can pick your own interview preferences such as a focus on types of questions (technical, UX related, or personal). The very interview gives you cards with Anni’s statements and you drag the card to the right if you agree, or to the left if you disagree with the statement. Depending on your picks, you’ll know if Anni is a good fit for your work.
Wait, no gallery of featured works made by Anni? No need for that, the website is already the ultimate featured work.
- Subject: UX Design, Freelancer
- Design Strengths: Original concept, excellent execution of design and code, dynamic and interactive.
- Country: USA
- Designed by: Anni Wang
12. Thom Evans Online Coaching: Big Bold Good Ol’ Flat
Online coaching platform for Thom Evans Fitness with huge bold titles, suitable for a fitness coach meant to motivate. The platform promo is a single-page website that offers images and videos to introduce you to the coach. It’s quick to scan, interactive, and looks pretty good.
- Subject: Fitness, Online coaching platform
- Design Strengths: Uses videos instead of text walls, big bold titles, it’s quick to scroll to the end and easy to read.
- Country: Denmark
- Designed by: Filip Felbar
13. TALA: Clean Experience in Dark Mode
An entirely new fruit snack experience in dark mode with somber colors and micro transitions. The website is very smooth, clean, and similar to one of our previous examples, using real pictures of the products as UI elements with nice hover animations.
- Subject: Food and Beverages, eCommerce
- Design Strengths: Clean, well-structured, easy to scan, smooth animations and real product photos as part of the experience with cool hover animations.
- Country: USA
- Designed by: Non-Linear
14. Carlos Molina Portfolio Website: Brutalist Flat Design at its Best
First of all, you have the option to choose the color mode of the portfolio. You either go neck-deep into the brutalist aesthetics with black font on a vivid blue background, or you can save your eyes with the opposite option. The portfolio is a one-pager where you read the giant titles until you reach the underlined “content creation” or “creative development” links when the magic happens. Enjoy.
- Subject: UI/UX Designer, Portfolio, Promotional
- Design Strengths: Great take on the brutalist design trend, flashy animations, interactive experience, fun
- Country: Spain
- Designed by: Carlos Molina
Final Words
Flat design is a minimalist UI design genre that creates a 2D image without the usage of gradients or shadows. It loads fast and offers an interface that is easy to read. This very reason gives designers room for creativity and experimentation which constantly evolves into new sub-genres. In this selection of flat design website examples, we showcased 14 different takes on the flat style genre in different combinations with other trends, all interactive and fun to experience. We hope you enjoyed the web design creations and got inspired to try something new for your website as well.
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