Whether you found it on a recommendation from others or on your own, we’ve likely encountered small corners online that delight us. One person or small team blogs that are surprisingly insightful, web apps or games that have been go-to’s for ages, showcases and exhibits on a specific yet curious niche, striking art pieces.
Do you have any favorite websites that loosely fall in this grouping? What about it is delightful to you?
I’ll give a couple personal examples that come to mind to get things started:
- The Vidya Interweb Playlist: A relatively well-designed music player that exclusively plays music from a load of videogames. I can’t remember how exactly I found this, but I have some good memories of it being a sizeable part of my soundtrack to my middle school years.
- The Web Design Museum: A showcase of how various websites have evolved over the years. I think it’s cool to see how things have developed with changing tech and changing tastes.
Ian’s Shoelace Site. His secure knot is a little tricky to learn (at least it was for me) but this and his fast knot are now my favorite ways to tie my boots. I especially love his detailed analysis of the various knots and lacing methods.
These are all great.
- A website that I found primarily for its watercolour pigments section, but which goes off in other directions is http://www.handprint.com/
- On the same theme is https://www.artiscreation.com/ which is a pigment database.
- Finally categorising pigments by when they were used in history is https://colourlex.com/
Ubuweb has a huge archive of video, music, and poetry from mostly the 20th century avant garde. It’s a great site to just aimlessly explore. In some ways this website isn’t narrow at all, but I think it probably appeals to a pretty narrow group of people. https://www.ubu.com/index.html
Rainwave.cc is kinda like the link you posted but for remixes of gamemusic, mostly from Overclocked Remix, which I’ve been on since like, 2004 or something haha. I use it all the time!
Oh hey, thanks for listening. :)
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The Laws of UX: A website which catalogs principles, laws, razors -etc- which are relevant to consider for designers. Each concept has its description, the main takeaways, and sources for further reading.
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The Arrowverse: A page which only focus is to catalog in chronological order every single episode from CW’s “Arrowverse” TV shows, like Arrow, Flash, etc. Very helpful for those looking to join in since cross-overs between shows are fairly common, so watching in order makes more sense story-wise
Thanks for the laws of UX! I totally need to share that at work. It’s a really well done site with good info.
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Nicky Case’s website. Nicky makes very interesting interactive content that can help visualize concepts like vicious cycles, anxiety, trust and much more. Author of cool stuff that you may have seen on youtube before, like Evolution of Trust.
Nicky is fucking awesome!
https://tasvideos.org/ It’s a website that publishes Tool Assisted Speedrun videos and a community that makes the same. I’ve been part of this website for nearly 20 years at this point.
Related: https://gdqvods.com/ which covers Awesome Games Done Quick / Summer Games Done Quick and related events. Recommended if you like TAS with audience participation and commentary.
