The websites of 8 popular brands: then and now
How often do you change the design of your website? According to some studies, a vast majority of web professionals and businesses are re-designing their sites once in 1-2 years. For most of users a poor design is the main reason to mistrust a website.
To visualize the evolution of website design of some popular brands, Jacinthe Busson created a nice little resource called UX Timeline. It illustrates the websites of well known brands and their change over time. It uses the Wayback Machine service to extract snapshots of web pages at certain moments of time. You can also preview the mobile app design evolution for respective Android and iOS apps.
Browsing these examples we can notice how web design trends changed over time, now embracing simpler, colorful, flat and mobile friendly layouts. Let’s have a look:
MailChimp
Year: 2005
Year: 2008
Year: 2009
Year: 2011
Year: 2014
Vimeo
Year: 2005
Year: 2007
Year: 2009
Year: 2012
Year: 2014
Spotify
Year: 2008
Year: 2010
Year: 2011
Year: 2014
Year: 2015
AirBnB
Year: 2008
Year: 2011
Year: 2013
Year: 2014
Year: 2015
To preview all examples please go to UX Timeline website. The resource will be updated, so keep an eye on it and let us know if you know more awesome layouts.