30 Desktop and Office Themed Website Designs

Great list!

Hey, Thanks for the feature!

Those a pretty nice, really into the wood look in the background. Have that on my portfolio site @ Frosty Web Designs

One more to add! http://www.thebrewmag.com/

I think what makes them so popular, is it’s an easy way to break out of the typical square website box and get away with some great background image designs. It brings a very comfortable non-techy feel to a website, and gives limitless possibilities to supporting graphics such as hand drawn buttons, torn notebook paper forms, etc.

I really enjoyed your picks for the list. I see this concept a lot, but these are all really creative and you can see each designer’s personality come through in their layouts. They each take the “desktop” concept and give it a different look or evolve into something completely different. As with any trend, I think it’s really important that the designer make it their own and try to use elements that differentiate their designs from the rest.

I love this list, going straight into the bookmarks! The ABI Blog is amazing! I plan to design my own in this style for my personal site, but now it will look terrible compared to some of these. Quality list though mate!

I just LOVE these designs

These are fantastic, extremely talented designers.

Truly excellent list, I see this style attempted quite a bit but not everyone is able to pull it off. It clearly takes a lot of time and attention to detail, great job in putting together some of the best. Thanks for the inspiration!

simple art. simply the best.

Really love the tactile feeling these sites create. Found another one too, http://www.3dsetco.com

Really great post, bookmarked it for reference later! WDD is churning out some really great stuff recently!

Excellent, certains are amazing !

This is a great list of themes!

Cool, I like those.
But one problem of some of these in my opinion is sometime you can’t find information or links very quickly.

hi there! great list + thanks for the listing

tobi (we-design, creator of nuevo-aurich.de)

… and it’s that tasty

nice sites thanks..

I might as well pimp my own “desktop” site.

What’s with trend of taping stuff on a desk, leaving coffee stains, and showing torn notes?

I guess I prefer my virtual desktop to be clean and tidy.

nice collection of beautiful websites, thumbs up!

http://kpanke.com

I really like the Simple Art site. It’s been around for a while and seems like it has inspired many other designers. My favorite that wasn’t listed above is Emailfuture.com

That’s a really nice list; a lot of inspiration there.

All of the sites look great but it just illustrates that this style has been done to death

here’s another: http://www.talentsurge.com

Very nice and full of creativity. I love the table full of Spanish cuisine. Looks tasty and is overall appealing.

Sweet collection!

Here is another that has a lot of gadgets on it
http://www.ccwkeepaccount.com/

ABI blog is the best one to me.

Great list! Inspirative! Thanks!

Thank you for featuring my design!
I think this sort of design is so popular, because it is naturally. The people like organic shapes and a bit disorder.

Thank you for including RespiroMedia.com in this list. Much appreciated!

nice collection .. out of the box

yeah i like this list… Totally Her amazing work

I liked simple art website a lot. the theme really puts brings out the brand.

regards
TJ

Inspiring gotta go digg!!!

YAY~ that was amazing ! ^^ I’ll definitely make my own “desktop” theme or magazine themed in my blog. :]

One more to add to the list Tijuana Flats Restaurant. Not a desktop, but in the same vein as Restaurant Nuevo Aurich.

i like thid design is very nice.

this stile is good.

http://www.cpskub.ru “desktop” nice or bad?

Great list! Inspirative! Thanks!

Very nice collection. Desktop themed designs seem to be very popular at the moment. And I do see why – they really look great. By the way: I just published a collection of tutorials on how to create such layouts in my own blog yesterday (in German).

Here’s another one…

http://endrup.dk/

Here is a really nice one (I know the designer so I biased), the animation for the menu button is done with Javascript, so no Flash! at all…It’s in Hebrew but still looks like a lot of work has been put into it…

http://www.kesset.co.il/

The contact page is also cool:
http://www.kesset.co.il/index.asp?page=contactPage&from=extDeskBlog

and if you press the bottom button on the menu, the menu slides out…

too much over-design.

bring back minimalism.

how about a thread on minimalist websites?

I really like these website designs. Very creative and impressive!!!!

I love these designs. Great collection! My mouth is watering from the Restaurant Nuevo Aurich’s Website and I also like Simple Art’s Website.

Nice designs

Awesome collection, but I’m really surprised you didn’t include http://www.workawesome.com. Perhaps it’s a little to cleanly laid out, but I’ve always admired it.