Everything the owner puts on the table, with his own words next to it. Threads read this whole file before exploring. Add items at the bottom; never delete one, mark it "dropped" instead.
How to add something:
- Paste a link, an image or a few words in chat; the coordinator files it here with the date and the owner's words.
- Or drop files straight into this folder (design/inspiration/): images, PDFs, screenshots, a text file of links. Name them anything; the coordinator annotates them here.
| # | Date | What | Owner's words | File or link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2026-10-20 | r/webdesign thread "These are my favorite web design inspiration websites, what are yours?" (Feb 2026): 24 galleries and lists, 27 studios named by the thread; scanned by sub-agents into scan-20261020/ (gallery: scan-20261020/index.html) |
"send some sub-agents to scan all the sites mentioned in here for inspiration … they should look at ones that stand out but more recent ones too because they're ai built and agentically designed more than likely" | https://www.reddit.com/r/webdesign/comments/1qwka2y/these_are_my_favorite_web_design_inspiration/ |
| 2 | 2026-10-20 | Google's A2UI announcement (Dec 2025), as a pointer to the generative-UI field; answered by research/genui-landscape.md (ecosystems by vendor, section 3; refresh addendum of 2026-10-20) |
"More recent developments, this is rather old given the pace of everything. I don't know if OpenAI and Google and Claude from Anthropic have different ways and derived ecosystems for doing things like this." | https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-a2ui-an-open-project-for-agent-driven-interfaces/ |
| 3 | 2026-10-20 | Mastra, the TypeScript agent framework, as a candidate for the site's plumbing (guardrails, scope, evals); assessed in research/claude-wiring.md addendum of 2026-10-20, decided at the build round |
"stepping ahead into how to achieve it technically but with something like this Mastra or perhaps a better suited tool … to structure things … add the guardrails … the plumbing so that the site is limited to itself and not used for other things … exactly for the site no more no less and what the site is supposed to provide as far as tool to the end user" | https://mastra.ai/ai-agent-framework |
| 4 | 2026-10-20 | The name of the thing: generative UI (or web UI), the non-standard experience the site offers | "Let's call it a generative UI or web UI." · "That's essentially the idea with the non-standard web experience I want to offer for this event." | — |
| 5 | 2026-10-21 | Y Combinator's Summer 2026 request for startups "Dynamic Software Interfaces" (Ankit Gupta): software ships shared primitives and agents compose the final interface per person; the verbatim text and the ETS27 reading are in yc-rfs-dynamic-software-interfaces.md (the live /rfs page now carries the Fall 2026 edition, so the anchor no longer resolves there; text taken from the Wayback snapshot of 2026-06-10) |
"Although our event involves mostly static information, it's somewhat relatable here." | https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs#dynamic-software-interfaces |
| 6 | 2026-10-21 | Büro's homepage (burocratik.com): the persistent dark pill bar at the bottom (glyph, a rolling "We are Büro" line, the current page as a white chip, a plus that opens the menu upward as a blurred sheet), and the owner's extension of it: the same bar as the place you ask the site; described in bar-stage-drawers.md, screenshots in burocratik/ · teardown: teardowns/burocratik/ |
"I really like the menu at the bottom of the site on this web page, which can also be an input box for chatting with the site too … you could hit the plus to expand it as a standard menu, or you could type in it and ask things like, who's on the agenda today? What are the speakers? What's the venue? … the site could start with something like that perhaps in the center of the site and once you start engaging it or click around the site it'll just move to the bottom and everything will feel like more like an app you're flowing through" | https://www.burocratik.com/ |
| 7 | 2026-10-21 | The interaction model in the owner's words: the stage (most of the viewport) shows what was asked for, details slide up as drawers from the bottom and close back to the thread, the bar is always visible, overlays everything and is where you resume; vocabulary and the mapping to the settled mechanics in bar-stage-drawers.md |
"how things open it like a drawer … someone was asking for speakers and then … the thread reveals all the speakers, they can then click one and it slides out like a drawer from the bottom of the page … close out that and go back to the main thread … the chat box can also always kind of be visible slash menu and overlays everything … as someone's done with the section, they just simply resume from the chat box … the background or stage area of the site, we'll call it, which is the viewport, the majority of the viewport is where the requested information is presented" | — |
| 8 | 2026-10-21 | The team's sketchbook page, "free your mind" in black marker on slightly textured art paper (2026-10-21-free-your-mind-sketchbook.png, the 2000 px copy chat allows; original and a flat scan wanted): the look for the stage and the type, text written out as if by marker, speakers as marker sketches that reveal the photo on hover; notes, first thoughts on loudness and a sample set in sharpie-on-paper.md |
"if you can help me think how loud the concept for the event is … I really, really like how it's done on the paper there … that was our team members coming up with the idea … perhaps the main stage of the site and the font even can be like that … someone's drawing it with a Sharpie on a kind of art paper that's slightly textured … as things are being written out … everything is created in a Sharpie … the speakers … convert them to … a sharpie sketch and when you hover it could reveal the photo … we can review everything and see how it best fit and then start doing a couple samples" | 2026-10-21-free-your-mind-sketchbook.png |
| 9 | 2026-10-21 | A fully custom experience: reactive custom cursors on hover (Büro's outlined pointing hand over its ranking cards, screenshot burocratik/cursor-hand-recognition.png), scroll bars invisible rather than styled, and less scrolling altogether; noted in bar-stage-drawers.md under "Custom all the way" · teardown: teardowns/burocratik/ |
"I want a fully custom experience. I like the custom cursors when you hover over certain things. Reactive custom cursors, also custom scroll bars." · "or rather even invisible scroll bars and less scrolling." | burocratik/cursor-hand-recognition.png |
| 10 | 2026-10-21 | Clever°Franke's homepage: one screen, about eighty flat coloured discs drifting in a slow 3D cloud over white, 282 spheres, one per palette colour of the studio's cases, laid out by a force simulation; it spins on its own and tilts with the pointer, the wheel zooms, dragging does not rotate; "Explore by color" takes three colour picks and reveals the matched case; the owner's reading: the homepage, or all the speakers as a cloud you rotate, zoom and click to expand; note and screenshots in cleverfranke-dot-cloud.md and cleverfranke/ · teardown: teardowns/cleverfranke/ |
"I really like the homepage here how the dots are floating in a cloud kind of thing. That could essentially be something like the homepage or that could be all the speakers or something like that. You could kind of zoom around or rotate it and click on them to expand … it looks very much like a freer mind kind of relaxing and interesting." | https://www.cleverfranke.com/ |
| 11 | 2026-10-21 | Your Majesty's work page: the only navigation is a black capsule at the bottom centre that shrinks to the monogram once you scroll and opens back into "MENU | CONTACT" when the pointer comes near; the owner's extension: the same reveal also opens the ask field; his open question: two experiences, or both always available; the three states of the bar and the coordinator's view are in bar-stage-drawers.md ("The bar at rest"), screenshots in yourmajesty/ · teardown: teardowns/yourmajesty/ |
"I like this really minimal menu at the bottom, which is just the logo. When you scroll it, it becomes just the logo down. And when you hover it, it reveals the word menu and the word contact, which is super. We could just have something like that, except it also revealed the chat box … I'm trying to figure out if we should have two experiences or if it should always be kind of both available … I specifically like the way this menu becomes very minimal unless used. Then it can be like the other menu I shared earlier." | https://yourmajesty.co/work |
| 12 | 2026-10-22 | ED.'s contact block (ed.studio footer): four round buttons and nothing else, a handset, a mail icon drawn as a little open envelope, Instagram, and a round portrait that is a deadpan joke avatar; the owner's crop in edstudio/contact-block-owner-crop.png, the footer and the top of the page in edstudio/; the ETS27 reading (the contact word in the bar opens a row like this, icons in the site's hand, a real Zpryme face on the end) in bar-stage-drawers.md ("Contact, personably") · teardown: teardowns/edstudio/ |
"I like the contact block here especially the mail icon. And the way it's done it looks fun and personable." | https://ed.studio/ |
| 13 | 2026-10-22 | Burn's landing: eleven grey blocks on a dot grid spell BURN and nothing else; a random block shows a project preview every two seconds until the first hover, the hovered block takes over, and a click dismisses the landing (it does not open that project); screenshots in burnstudio/, the ETS27 reading (the theme or the name spelled from cells that are speakers, sessions or themes, as the idle stage) in bar-stage-drawers.md ("The name as the grid") · teardown: teardowns/burnstudio/ |
"Burn Studios are great. Exercise in minimal design. I like how they use the grid on the home page to write their company name. Burn. And it's minimal until you hover or act on it. Perhaps something to borrow from or consider here." | https://burnstudio.co/ |
| 14 | 2026-10-22 | Burn's work page: every thumbnail sits on one cross grid, one column wide at one of three heights, scattered but never off-grid; hovering a thumbnail extends the menu with that project's code and title; a four-arrow handle lets you drag the menu anywhere on the screen; on the phone a foot bar names whatever is nearest the middle as you scroll; screenshots burnstudio/work-*.png, the ETS27 reading (one grid under everything the mind composes, a bar that speaks for the canvas, a bar you can move) in bar-stage-drawers.md · teardown: teardowns/burnstudio/ |
"They stick to that grid where every element is laid out according to the grid even if of various sizes and in random spots on the grid but adheres to the grid … the hover extends the menu and reveals more about what you're hovering over. I like that localized minimalism where information is in one section of the screen … while you hover on stuff that's on the main canvas" · "a little drag icon that appears next to the menu that lets you move the menu anywhere you want on the screen. That is really cool." | https://burnstudio.co/work |
| 15 | 2026-10-22 | Büro's newsletter signup at the foot of every page: two small lines, "Psst Psst. Wanna get Spammm?" in black and "Give me your e-mail." in grey; the grey line is the email input itself with the sentence as its placeholder, the send underline and the privacy line appear only once you type; the owner's crop in burocratik/newsletter-owner-crop.png, the mechanism and the ETS27 version in components-to-copy.md · teardown: teardowns/burocratik/ |
"I really like their newsletter signup, which just looks like two sentences and I want to copy it exactly, or at least for now, I like that idea … It just says the text but the latter text, if you click it, lets you input your email." | https://www.burocratik.com/work |
| 16 | 2026-10-22 | Floema's navigation: four white pills that touch at rest and move apart when the pointer comes near, with the white skin stretching between them like tissue, so the strip reads as one flexible thing (confirmed: drawn SVG metaball bridges, no filter; the site is by Büro); the owner's crop in floema/nav-hover-owner-crop.png; a candidate for the bar's awake state in bar-stage-drawers.md ("Pills with tissue") · teardown: teardowns/floema/ |
"I really like the navigation that when you hover the way the little pills separate but have a little connecting, quote-unquote, tissue between them so they kind of look flexible and are responsive on hover, perhaps tap too. I really like that mechanism." | https://floema.com/en |
| 17 | 2026-10-22 | The site as something people's own assistants can use: an embedded MCP server, a button that launches ChatGPT or Claude on the site, itineraries built by the visitor's assistant and emailed or added to their calendar; three lanes (the mind does it itself, an agent-readable surface, the site as a tool) and the guardrails in agent-friendly.md; a build-round item, pointed to from the decision log |
"websites can have MCP servers so for example we could maybe embed one so people's agents can interact with the website, or rather we could make it agentically friendly … the website can offer a button and they click it, it'll launch their agent or preferred way to interact with AI … they could build their itinerary for the event … a custom agenda basically emailed to them for the sessions they want, and or add it to their calendar directly … just launch ChatGPT or Claude from the website and let their agents start talking to the website" | — |
| 18 | 2026-10-22 | Kōzōwood's site: fluid page transitions where content shifts out of the way and the next page flows in, so you never seem to leave a page; the owner wants the mechanism observed and carried into the ETS27 flow; torn down in teardowns/kozowood/: Nuxt 2 with GSAP hooks on the page transition (the old page pinned and drifting up while the new one rises from below over 1.5 s), Lenis smooth scroll, four Lotties, a menu sheet that drops from the top |
"This website has very fluid page transitioning in very creative ways. Everything moves and shifts as if you are never really leaving a page and going to another. It just continuously flows through content … it feels more like a continuous flow almost as if you're playing a 2D video game than flipping through a website. So whatever libraries and everything we're using, however agents can observe and acknowledge this flow we could hopefully incorporate it into the flow of the ETS 27 website." | https://kozowood.com/en/building-with-kozowood |
| 19 | 2026-10-22 | MultiversX (a Büro site): nine coloured tag pills (NFTs, Blockchain, Metaverse, DeFi, Web3, Crypto, Fiat, Community, #EGLD) drop from the top of the "Ecosystem" section and bounce along the container edge under a physics model, then can be dragged and thrown; the pills are DOM spans (.tags-playground > .physics-tag-container > .physics-tag) moved by a physics engine not yet named; the owner's crop in multiversx/tags-owner-crop.png; queued for the second teardown wave (wave one: teardowns/); the ETS27 reading in bar-stage-drawers.md ("Physics on the stage") |
"I really like this physics part where these things dropped out from the top and then bounced along the edge of the container. The physics model is really good … when someone searches for speakers or opens the speakers page we could have all the speakers drop from the top of the screen and kind of bounce into the screen and then they could drag them around, throw them around or click on them … It's very responsive and feels very natural." | https://multiversx.madebyburo.com/ |