Dainis Graveris

Dainis Graveris is 21 years old blogger and designer with really strong passion. He usually hangs out in Twitter tweeting design related links regularly. If You use Digg actively he can be great friend there and don't forget add to StumbleUpon too! How about Deviantart? Meet him there as well! If You have any questions feel free to write and add him to Gtalk - it is beautiful way to get contacted directly!

46 responses to “60 Apple Inspired Websites – Why Apple Design Works?”

  1. Smooth Booth

    Clean and easy to navigate, I find it hard to not be inspired by apple given their success. A great example of an ecommerce site.

  2. Irfan

    wow, its so cool..

    thanks!!!
    .-= Irfan´s last blog ..Download Gratis Nero Multimedia Suite 10 + Serial =-.

  3. Siim Esko

    All beautiful minimalist web design. Gorgeous to look at!

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  5. sovi

    basically every creature in this earth both living and non living one has own design…

    very interesting info…. thank you

  6. mathew xiang

    Yes,very good !

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  8. Pedro Assumpção

    Fantastic collection, great!

  9. Krzysztof Kotlarski

    Nice page collection.
    Btw. i don’t think load time is the reason why apple don’t use flash, in fact well designed flash elements can load much faster than set of graphics/videos/javascript

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  12. Mohammad Jeprie

    wrong link, snowtape.com.
    .-= Mohammad Jeprie´s last blog ..Master of Digital Art-Randis Albion =-.

  13. Djoule

    Congratulation !
    The explanation of the Apple design as well as the examples are excellent !

    .-= Djoule´s last blog ..Les outils de l’agent de voyages 2.0 =-.

  14. Tim

    Looks like Dainis doesn’t like the fact that I found a post from over a year ago on another site containing basically the same information and posted it here, so I’ve been censored?
    Hmm. Very nice Dainis. Did you ever think that people might be interested in reading that article on the other site as well?

    1. Saad Bassi

      Well Tim, if you will search for an article “Apple inspired design” you will have 100’s article in the same way written up. You will even find a dedicated gallery which only showcase apple designs. I don’t think so that Dainis didn’t do hard work. Just see how he pointed out basics of apple design. And I think it takes time while you scan a design. Moreover you also need to read the following article by CEO of Mashable for CNN. Read the end. You will find something useful there to change your thinking.
      http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/03/18/cashmore.digg/index.html

      1. Tim

        I submitted a previous link with text as well and that never showed up. So, sorry if the last one was just a link. Posts like this really annoy me, though.
        What’s the point of writing about something when it’s already been written about many many many times? Other than to get search hits.
        You might want to take a “different” approach and tell why Apple’s site is not as good as everyone thinks it is?
        The navigation is terrible. How do I find movie trailers? I used to be able to find them very easily on their old website. They are now hidden away somewhere. How do I download a 10.6.x software update from their site?
        A nice layout means nothing if you can’t find what you’re looking for.

  15. Justin Carroll

    Am I the only one that see’s this as possibly a bad thing? I know people/agencies in our industry that only design like Apple. I mean, really? I know there’s good in drawing from what makes Apple’s design successful, but if we’re honest with ourselves I think there’s a line there and it’s not as blurry as some think.
    .-= Justin Carroll´s last blog ..Fearnet =-.

  16. Patrick

    MetaLab is a joke.

  17. Nastia

    Dear Dainis, I’m sorry for my off-topic message, but don’t you mind to hold an opinion poll about this new effect with image appearance? It is interesting when there are 3-4 images, but when there are more then 10 (and yours collections are always more) each image appearance makes me nervous =)
    But if I’m the only one, it doesn’t matter. I just thought may be I am not )
    .-= Nastia´s last blog ..No name =-.

  18. Squiders

    Love Apple designs although there are a few too many clones out there for my liking.. hell they have it easy when they can use excellent photography of such beautifully designed objects

  19. Hector Miranda

    I like the concept of the article, but you may want to work on your English a bit. Or at least get someone fluent in English to proofread your work before publishing. It was so frustrating to read that I didn’t make it past the first paragraph.

  20. Tim
  21. Bill

    Absolutely agree that the Apple website design is effective and easy to navigate/digest.

    Some of these sites are influenced by Apple’s website, but I gotta say that for the most part it seemed like there was confusion between being influenced by the Apple web design and just being a website that sells OSX software.

    For example the Plex app is just an OSX app, not really any Apple website influence here. Nothing really Apple specific about the design.

  22. Tim

    Your article was fantastic but the shitty thing is that this Chinese site just ripped off all your hard work and content like little pieces of shit and even posted it on Delicious.

    http://www.cnbeta.com/articles/106823.htm

    1. IMH

      sorry for that. cnbeta is a website that anyone can post articles about I.T. anytime in anywhere.
      I think is hard for the administrator to find out which article is free to quote and which one has copyright.

  23. tehkemo

    Its amazing to see how many websites can be inspired by one design. Thanks for this collection.

    Regards,

    Tom.
    .-= tehkemo´s last blog ..Alta Moda Marbella =-.

  24. Preston D Lee

    I actually had a client recently that asked me to “copy apple’s web site without anyone noticing”. I chuckled and then did my best for him.
    .-= Preston D Lee´s last blog ..Make your design career a reality through the power of passion =-.

  25. Noel Wiggins

    There is so much good, you can find in apple it is many times a starting point in my inspirada for my web development. And the beginning of this post shows a lot of reasons why its just so good, I will be referencing this quit a bit in the near future.

    The samples are awesome as well, the only issue I have is the few that is so similar it looks like the only thing that was changed was the name.

    I believe in mimicking a successful website, so you can learn how to make your own designs better but there really isn’t much to learn if you don’t add anything to the design…

    Thanks and Regards

    Noel for Nopun.com
    a graphic design studio
    .-= Noel Wiggins´s last blog ..Website design resources =-.

  26. PelFusion

    help ful collection…thanks for sharing

  27. Kyoji

    Wrong link “16. Symphony CMS”

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  30. Slobodan Kustrimovic

    Great collection. Thanks.
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  32. Richie

    Cool stuff… you beat me into publishing this article….. Great work!!
    I may have to alter mine a bit.. :D
    .-= Richie´s last blog ..50 Photoshop Disasters that will make you say OMG! =-.

  33. Barton

    I suggest to watch the movie Objectified or visit the British Design Museum in London. There’s a Dieter Rams (designer of Braun) exhibition now.. I guess you will find the answer for the success of apple design.

  34. Logobird Designs

    Excellent collection. Huge fan of Apple inspired design.
    Thank you!
    .-= Logobird Designs´s last blog ..Beyond the Brief – Undertanding a Logo Design Client =-.

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