Experimental website design inspiration

Experimental web design is an aesthetic direction defined by its own conventions for layout, type and colour. The gallery above collects real, live examples — the fastest way to understand the experimental look is to study the highest-voted sites here.

The sites at the top of this page are the most-upvoted experimental examples right now, re-ranked as the community votes. Each links out to the live site and shows its design score and tech stack.

Done well, yes — the experimental examples that rank highest here keep content readable, performance fast and structure clear, which is exactly what both users and search engines reward. The ones that sacrifice usability for style score lower.