Today, more and more UX/UI designers are incorporating interactive/animation elements (such as mouse hover state, audio or video media, scrolling interactions, and so on) into their website designs. On the one hand, this can make the website itself more colorful and interesting, attract more visitors, and also inspire visitors to pay more attention to and read its website content. This is why interactive web design has become a fashion for designers to jump on the bandwagon.
However, the interactive design of the website is not as easy as imagined, how to combine the common interactive or animation elements, to create a high quality and cool interactive website?
Here are 10 examples of the latest and best interactive websites to inspire your website design:
1.APPS
APPS is an excellent interactive website designed by VGNC Creative for wine brands. While it’s not easy for a designer to create an online wine site, APPS shows off its main product, APPLE CINDER (a classic cider), in an interesting and intuitive way. So how does it do this?
The answer is simple. First, the designer designed a visual interactive motion simulator for the site, which simply and vividly introduces the process of making cider. Site visitors can click a simple step by step to understand its processing process, intuitive and easy to understand. Moreover, its simple and clean product page design can also make visitors better focus on product features and increase product sales.
2.Webflow
Webflow is an interactive web site with all kinds of animations, and an online tool that helps designers and developers create all kinds of responsive and visual websites easily and efficiently.
Generally speaking, some common online websites, in order to attract more visitors to download and use their products or tools, often adopt the way of “simple product feature introduction + download link or button” on their home page, but Webflow chooses a completely different way: “page history introduction + start using button”. To put it simply, Webflow first introduces the history of the website with a variety of interesting animations and interactive elements (introducing its products from the side). While striking a chord with visitors, Webflow also intersperses some product download buttons so that interested visitors can continue to understand and use its products. Visitors can easily scroll through the history of the site. It was like a movie. The visuals were really good.
3.Polish Christmas Guide
Polish Christmas Guide Polish Christmas Guide is an interactive website that helps visitors learn about Polish Christmas traditions. Its cute cartoon appearance is perfect for children.
After opening the site, visitors can go on a sleigh ride with Santa Claus to collect Christmas presents. While collecting gifts, some information about Polish Christmas traditions will pop up, which is very interesting.
And, as an illustration site with audio media, the Polish Christmas Guide’s gift collection tour is more like an online game where visitors can collect gifts with a simple mouse swipe or click. All in all, this kind of site design that adds up to a little bit of a mini-game is a great way to get your visitors interested, and it’s worth learning from.
In addition, the pop-up information displayed at the end of the site about protecting and supporting abused children is very meaningful and impressive for helping and protecting this group of people.
4.Cyclemon
Cyclemon is an interactive website about all kinds of bicycles. The whole site uses colorful illustration style. As a cycling enthusiast, simply swipe through the website to see illustrations of different bikes and pick your favorite. Its colour collocation is also very comfortable and fashionable.
5.Climber
Climber is an online Interactive site introducing a creative studio — Interactive Production Company — with a clean, friendly interface and distinct, unique forest theme. A variety of interactive and animation design, easy to click and slide visitors to see their studio design work and related information. So, if you’re thinking about designing and creating a similar feature studio site, look at some of the interactions on this site.
6.Alex Buga
Alex Buga is an excellent interactive online portfolio site that features all aspects of a designer, such as personal albums, web design work, favorite songs and blogs.
Different from the general online portfolio site, which lists and presents various design works mechanically, the designer designed the whole site into a modern personal room. And all sorts of design works and content that stylist adds, be like room adornment general put inside the room. Site visitors simple click, you can freely and easily view the relevant information, cool and interesting.
Also, its specially added “My Music” module is a great place for you to relax and get to know the designers.
7.Timothee Roussilhe
Timothee Roussilhe is a simple and creative interactive resume site. Many creative and fun interactive elements have been added to provide a more enjoyable experience for visitors to the site.
For example, when you open the site, you see a row of designer names in white letters (Timothee Roussilhe). And this group of white letters is an interesting little game in itself. You can drag any one of the letters and break up the rest, just like you would with a bowling ball. Of course, you can simply click “Do not press this!” Break up all the letters at once.
Also, when you move your mouse over the web icon in the upper right corner, it turns into a stick figure emoji, which changes with each click.
So it was an interesting experience for me to find out each of the interactive designs that designers had added.
So, if you’re interested, check out the site and see what happens when you hover your mouse over a designer’s personal image.
8.Pieces
Pieces is a featured interactive site featuring 30 endangered species. The designer skillfully uses thirty pieces of paper of various colors to combine them into a variety of endangered species. Meanwhile, he also adds animations for these creatures like Chinese paper cuttings. They are sometimes charming, sometimes clever, sometimes shy and lovely, which are very lively and interesting. With a simple click and swipe, you can freely view information about the endangered animals, such as the date of discovery, history and relevant videos.
In addition, the color scheme, background switch and other details are well worth emulating.
9.Abbey Road Studio
Abbey Road Studio uses 3D technology to provide visitors with an online tour of one of the UK’s leading recording studios. Follow its website guide, you can easily experience and feel every corner of the studio. Also explore and discover stories, images, videos and music related to the studio.
In addition, the site combines various sound media, 3D technology, embedded video technology and other advanced web technologies to provide visitors with a more realistic experience. When you swipe through the site, you feel like you’re in Abbey Road Studio and exploring.
10.Chekhov
Chekhov is an interactive site with a unique style of illustration. Visitors to the site can simply complete a quiz (answering seven related questions) to see which Chekhov character they resemble. And this one design idea is very distinctive.
conclusion
These are our 10 latest and greatest examples of interactive websites. Many of their ideas for online interactive web design, such as adding interactive mini-games, using cute illustrations/cartoons, inserting animated images or ICONS, etc., are very useful. Hopefully they will inspire you to design and create a fun/cool/unique/quality interactive website. (Click here for 12 must-see mobile Interactive Design examples)