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Recently I stumbled over a Homepage which had a sort of tiled design on the homepage consisting of several black/dark rounded boxes positioned next to each other. Similar to stack exchange view all sites, but with just a few boxes of different size above the fold.

However I forgot which site it was, and am now looking for successful implementations of that design in the wild and possibly if there is a name for this other than tiles?

(Tiles seems to be something slightly different, involving functionality)

This is how it looks like:

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The aim here is to replace a slider with something like that.

So basically I am asking if this design has a name, and what well known websites use it on their homepage instead of a slider (news sites don't count).

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    It looks like simply fitting rectangles into a page. What comes to my mind is "newspaper layout" but that's not an established term for a layout style. Can you give us more clues as to what you're after beyond this general idea?
    – obelia
    Commented Mar 16, 2013 at 23:53
  • I need to present several things on the homepage. Marketing msges, webinar, maybe news, etc but I dont want to use a slider. A news homepage has however very specific needs, so I don't want to look at news homepages.
    – user1721135
    Commented Mar 16, 2013 at 23:55
  • Basically im looking for established brochure type websites, who do not use a slider but still have various msges above the fold, and maybe these rectangles have a name as design pattern?
    – user1721135
    Commented Mar 16, 2013 at 23:57
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    It's fairly common to have diverse units of functionality arranged in tight fitting rectangles on a page. I don't think there's a specific style or pattern that applies.
    – obelia
    Commented Mar 17, 2013 at 0:04
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    How are you differentiating between the grid style design (that is often associated with web pages) and the tile style design (that seems to be associated with apps)? I think the real difference is in the interaction and not the layout, and it would probably be impractical for websites to have the Windows 8 style of interaction.
    – Michael Lai ♦
    Commented Mar 17, 2013 at 23:13

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These sites are similar.

  1. http://www.istockphoto.com
  2. http://flipboard.com (used on app but not website)
  3. And jQuery Masonry is the js plugin used to make the "Tiles" Design. They have a showcase of sites using it. http://masonry.desandro.com
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  • masonry seems to be the right idea.
    – user1721135
    Commented Mar 18, 2013 at 15:12
  • Glad to help. Let me know if mine is the best answer.
    – Danger14
    Commented Mar 19, 2013 at 20:07
  • yours is the only answer so far - so it is the best, the worst and everything else as well ;)
    – user1721135
    Commented Mar 20, 2013 at 0:15

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