Forget Flat! Here’s some superb 3D website design inspirations

While the design community keep boasting about ‘how great flat design is’, i tend not to over follow the flat design trend. Flat style design was first introduce with Microsoft’s Zune collection. The design of the Zune was clean and simple, with a focus on large lowercase typography, silhouette-style logos, and monochromatic font colors. Overtime it is practice by web designer to make their website simpler, cleaner and fast loading.

Did i mention fast loading? with flat design element, graphical object will be lesser than usual, means your website will load faster and favored by search engine like Google or Yahoo. Hence the question is are you a web designer or SEO designer? because you can’t do both at the same time if you want to create a unique and wonderful website design.

User interactive is important for a website, especially website with eCommerce or community involved. People need to communicate with your website in order to stay longer and you need to grab their attention. Here are some of the best website that use 3D in web design to engage their users.

Element

Very stylish intro and superb 3D animations combined with great looking website.

Gears Of War – Emergence Day

Brilliant peace of art! Massive 3D scene with animations.

Whitevoid

Cool and interactive portfolio 3D views.

Ecodazoo

Very impressive 3D video intro

Hackery, Math and Design

Stunning intro with 3D transition wave

TheAutumnFilm

captivating 3D web element art

Jobmixer

Slight 3D element in search box and header image make a different.

WomantoWoman

Not much but there’s some 3D effect on side panel

Cognigencorp

It’s obvious, i love 3D Menus

SensiSoft

Beautiful work with beautiful 3D scene and animations.

SoftSE

Great combination of 3D and video transition.

Delibarapp

Beautiful 3D graphic and menu design

Planmysite

Attention 3D grabbing on their intro section

Majales

Definitely one of my favorite 3D element in header

The Egg Republic

Its all about the 3D Angle..superb!!!

And So On…

There you go, example of 3D web design in today modern web design. Although Flat design is still favorable by designer, you can’t ignore the creativity of designer that use 3D element or graphic in their web design.