The “Most Loved” One Page Websites from December 2017

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Below are the 4 One Page websites awarded “Most Loved” in December – hope you enjoy!

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SketchCleaner (Download, Landing Page)

Beautifully designed One Pager for SketchCleaner – a Sketch plugin that helps keep your design files as clean as a whistle. Lovely touch with the subtle header background diamond effect (alike the Sketch logo) thats also inverted to a dark scheme in the gorgeous spacious footer.

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Your 2017 Wrapped (Annual Report, Experimental, Music Related)

Lovely, colorful One Pager with vibrant transitions and animations recapping your 2017 year of listening on Spotify. The microsite (on a dedicated domain) creates personalized stats and playlists based on your recent activity. Neat inclusion of a 3-part quiz testing how well you know your taste. Finally it prompts a download of your stats into a perfect social-sharing sized card to boast your listening stats (while spreading the Spotify word!).

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Bachoy (Portfolio)

Impressive dark-schemed One Page portfolio for Ryan Magno. The Single Page website features loads of attention to detail including a command prompt style intro text, spotlight effect background, hover sensitive content items and changing backgrounds to match the current project you are browsing.

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Kaltpresse (Product)

Long-scrolling One Pager with a unique arrangement of beautiful imagery and typography for cold-pressed juicery, Kaltpresse. Neat touch with the winking animation when hovering over the juice range links – each loading up additional scrollable content. When clicking the info icon (bottom-right) note how the new content loads but keeps a peephole of the content you were currently browsing – very impressive. Final shout out to the team section with such charismatic imagery, creating a hearty first impression toward the brand.

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Hope you enjoyed these beautiful One Pagers from December!

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Your Design Ikagai

As a designer, what gets you out of bed in the morning? What really motivates you to do meaningful work?

The Japanese have a great word: ikigai. It has no direct translation into English, but roughly means your level of happiness in life, or your ‘reason for being’.

As you can see in the chart below, you can achieve ikigai—meaning in life—if you can find the right balance of 4 things:

• Passion
• Mission
• Vocation
• Profession

Your design Ikigai

Your ikigai encompasses your career and your personal life. But it’s also a great lens to use when looking for the next step in your design career.

With Ikigai in mind, we can design our own careers, finding a balance between working on the things that we love doing, the things that we’re good at, and the things that add meaning to the world. And yes, we need to be paid for our work too.

Many people spend their lifetime working out their reason for being.

But understanding where you sit on the chart above might help you realise what areas you need to work on to get there. Here are the questions to ask yourself.

Are you in a role that you love?

Nothing makes us happier than working in a job, or at least a project that gets us into flow state.

Ask yourself, “am I truly happy with the work that I do?”. Are there changes that you could make in your current role that could make you truly love your work? Or would a new role get you closer to finding your passion?

And if you haven’t found your passion yet, that’s okay too. Keep looking.

Are you building things that the world needs?

Where’s your moral compass at? Is working ethically important to you? (Hint: it should be). Are you producing work that benefits society?

If you’re not feeling satisfied with your design career, perhaps it’s because there’s not enough meaning in your work.

Are you doing what you are good at?

To be really satisfied with what you do, you need to be doing things that you are good at. And you need to feel empowered to do your best work.

Knowing that we can do something well gives us a sense of accomplishment. And when we’re stuck in jobs and work environments where we can’t achieve our full potential, it sucks.

Are you in a role that pays you fairly?

A good salary is, of course, another consideration to being happy in work.

We all know more money doesn’t make us any happier, so striving for big salaries is not the be all and end all. In some ways, getting paid more can make you less happy. But we do need to get paid enough to make ends meet.

What changes do you need to make to your career to reach your design ikigai? Finding your design ikigai won’t happen overnight, but I hope by next UXmas you’ll be a little closer.

This article was originally published for UXmas – an advent calendar for UX folk. Catch up on all 24 posts at uxmas.com

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