Looking at the results of a good website design helps improve and inspires our own designs, getting into the mind of a designer can be invaluable.

There don’t seem to be many design postmortems published these days, but some designer do discuss their designs and the reasoning behind what they did.

Below you’ll find a collection of blog posts from designers discussing their website designs:



Website: Erratic Wisdom

Tom Fadial: http://erraticwisdom.com/2008/01/21/the-new-erratic-wisdom







Website: Monacle

Dan Hill: http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2008/04/monocle-design.html







Website: Coolspotters

Mark Boulton Design: http://www.markboultondesign.com/work/detail/coolspotters/







Website: Problogger.net

Ben Bleikamp: http://www.bleikamp.com/2007/08/11/redesign-of-probloggernet/







Website: Adii

Adii: http://www.adii.co.za/2007/09/03/the-redesign-post-op/







Website: Positive Space

http://www.positivespaceblog.com/archives/the-positive-space-redesign-rationale/







Website: Avalonstar

Bryan Veloso: http://avalonstar.com/blog/2008/mar/30/design-distortion/







Website: Veerle’s Blog

Veerle Pieters: http://veerle.duoh.com/blog/comments/design_phase_of_my_new_blog/







Website: Jeff Croft

Jeff Croft: http://jeffcroft.com/blog/2008/feb/16/more-details-redesign/







Website: Darren Hoyt

Darren Hoyt: http://www.darrenhoyt.com/2008/05/23/a-site-redesign-for-spring2008/







Website: Blog Hearld

Thord Daniel Hedengren: http://www.blogherald.com/2008/08/02/the-blog-herald-relaunches/







Website: MSNBC.com

Mike Davidson: http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2007/11/msnbc-redesigns-taste-the-rainbow







Website: AIGA.org

Jason Santa Maria: http://v3.jasonsantamaria.com/archive//2007/03/01/aiga_redesign.php







Website: ExpressionEngine.com

Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain: http://www.digital-web.com/articles/redesigning_the_expressionengine_site/





If you know any more please post links via the comments.