Whether you’re just designing for fun, improving your skills, or bulking up your portfolio—web redesign concepts are a fabulous way to peek into the mind of a designer.

We dug deep into Dribbble for awesome website redesign concepts and collected a handful of favorites to kick off the week with a little inspiration.

Vans website redesign concept by Mykolas Puodžiūnas

“As a Vans junkie I was blown away by outdated design, weird layout choices and some very irritating UX issues.”

Thule website redesign concept by Mykolas Puodžiūnas

“Thule Sweden offers great quality production for active lifestyle. However, it seems to me that their current web design doesn’t live up to its full potential. Here is my attempt to freshen up Thule.com.

GTI website redesign concept by Jared Granger

“Had a little fun this weekend starting a for fun landing page with one of my favorite builds so far for the MK7 GTI—The GTI RS. Photography by Sam Dobbins.”

Skype redesign concept by Charles Patterson

“It’s fun to work on things that are just fun, so I made this Skype concept today. Love what you do!”

Pandora concept by Bryce Thompson

“I really wanted this to be a higher-end experience since as you navigate the market of media players and similar products, there’s a lot of fun-ness going around (Not that that’s a bad thing). I was trying to go for a little different, a little more immersive, etc.”

NYTimes.com redesign concept by Jon Pritzl for Mighty.

“This was an old-ish design challenge to re-imagine the NYTimes homepage. I wanted to leverage its heritage and brand equity, yet push a few ideas on how to create a customizable—and social—news experience.”

Rolling Stone website redesign concept by Jason Kirtley

“Recent concept I worked on for redesign of Rolling Stone website. This is a view of long view article/musician profile. “

IMDb design concept by George Vasyagin for Awesomed

“I think that IMDb needs to be simplified a lot and each section should serve it’s own needs.”

Gmail resdesign by Valentin Salmon

“I devoted myself to remake the Gmail design. I used Gmail identity declining on something newer but while respecting the codes of mailbox Google.”

Facebook redesign by Eyal Zuri

“This is something I did just for fun. “

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