Just been browsing Awwwards about websites: https://www.awwwards.com/websites/
All of that is unusable crap and achieves "clean" design mostly by not having functionality. The trick seems to be a useless fat image and tucking away functionality as small as possible. This is design wankery.

your anti design slur disgusts me! go to http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/... and be happy because with narrow minded people like you the internet would still look like the first webpage.

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Coincidentally I've recently been browsing that website as well.. there are some good ones like the one with the little game (gives some variety to the Chrome dino, right) but yeah overall it seems quite shitty. That said, is it really important to overdesign your 404 page over making sure that your visitors never get there? Meh, efficiency peeves I guess.

@Condor I just make my 404 page with the same design as the rest including navigation so that a visitor knows he's on the right website and can go on with other shit. No overdesign. :-)

@heyheni to be fair, it's fully responsive ;)

On a more hones note: I love https://tympanus.net/codrops/ and actually got to implement a few of the proposed concepts at a previous place where I worked. There are some really nice interactions in there!

All assuming I have a huge screen but don't want any content on it.

@Wack Holy cannoli, it's a 404!