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ui experiments, 2026 edition

Six self-contained pages exploring the design directions worth stealing this year. Each is built fresh — no template, no shared shell. Click in.

bento dashboard

asymmetric grid

Editorial product dashboard built from a 12-column bento grid with sparkline cards, live tickers, and a hero metric.

open demo

aurora command

ai interface

An AI workspace with a floating command palette, streaming answer with citations, and slash-command suggestions.

open demo

spatial cards

glass + depth

Layered frosted-glass surfaces that respond to cursor parallax, in the lineage of Vision OS and macOS Tahoe.

open demo

brutalist press

anti-design

Mono type, raw borders, no rounded corners. An editorial layout that leans into the brutalist revival.

open demo

clay finance

soft 3d

Claymorphism is back — soft inset shadows, candy palette, tactile buttons. A finance dashboard that feels touchable.

open demo
Aa

cinema landing

kinetic + mesh

Oversized kinetic typography over an animated mesh gradient. The big-type editorial trend hitting SaaS landing pages.

open demo

handheld

mobile patterns

Three phones in a fan: a feed, a chat, a profile. Real-world mobile patterns assembled in pure CSS — no screenshots.

open demo

pricing

saas landing

Three-tier pricing with a monthly/annual toggle, comparison logos, and an FAQ accordion. The Lapa-Ninja pattern, done well.

open demo

minimal essay

editorial whitespace

A single-column long read set in serif italics with a drop cap. Quiet design, the Seesaw / Cosmos lineage.

open demo

components kit

primitives

Buttons, inputs, switches, badges, alerts, avatars — every primitive a real product page needs, on one designed page.

open demo
YEARWORKCITY
047 · 2026 · Catalogue Raisonné · RVK
046 · 2026 · A Field of Salt · RVK
045 · 2026 · Programme · RVK
044 · 2025 · Brutus · TYO
043 · 2025 · Lögberg · RVK

studio archive

type-driven index

A small studio's complete catalogue of work, in reverse chronological order. No images, no marketing — only the record.

open demo

est. MMXIX

Saltey

Sourdough · cultured butter ……… 9

Cod · brown crab · kelp ……………… 44

Reindeer · sour cherry ……………… 58

saltey, a kitchen

restaurant menu

Cream, oxblood, italic serif. A small restaurant's nightly menu set the way a printed card would set it.

open demo

The Repertory.

Sat

1:00

6:15

9:00

Sun

1:00

6:15

9:00

Mon

1:00

6:15

9:00

Tue

1:00

6:15

9:00

Wed

1:00

6:15

9:00

Thu

1:00

6:15

9:00

Fri

1:00

6:15

9:00

the repertory

cinema programme

An independent cinema's week. Seven columns of showtimes, a centerpiece restoration, members' notes. Print logic, on a web page.

open demo

Nordmark & Co.№ 09

A letter to
shareholders,
for the year 2026.

Eyvind N.

24·V·MMXXVI

a letter to shareholders

annual report

A founder's letter, set like a printed document. Marginal year navigation, drop caps, footnotes, signature in script.

open demo
Linear

The system for modern
software dev.

linear.app, studied

saas marketing

The canonical product page, rebuilt: mesh-gradient hero, animated issue list with status transitions, feature triptych, customer quote, logo wall.

open demo

read.cv.

A quieter home for your work.

read.cv, studied

professional network

Inter Display on warm off-white, profile grid with skill tags, an editorial 'what is read.cv' essay block, two-tier pricing.

open demo
Anthropic

Making AI systems
you can rely on.

anthropic.com, studied

editorial product

Cream paper, serif italic accents, a Claude-coral mesh, three product cards, three principles, a research index, careers callout in deep ink.

open demo
VOLT04 · MMXXVI

VOLT

M-21540.—

volt instruments

swiss precision

A Zürich modular-synth maker. Strict grid, signal red, vertical type, live filter response, hand-bound catalogue 1968 — present.

open demo

18a
Bienal

SP · MMXXVI

18ª bienal de design

tropical modernism

São Paulo design biennial. Sunset palette, Niemeyer curves, animated marquee, eight program days as colored circles, hibiscus and ocean.

open demo

蓬莱堂

Hōrai-dō

1841 —

京 都

蓬莱堂 · hōrai-dō

ma, negative space

A Kyoto paper shop, est. 1841. Sumi black on bone, vertical kana, 75% whitespace, a single object on a vast page, seasonal closures in four kanji.

open demo

PULSE

SEOUL14·15·16

pulse / 26

kinetic chrome

A 3-night Seoul electronic festival. Holographic conic gradients, chrome-text hero that tracks the cursor, live now-playing waveform, day cards in three weathers.

open demo

№ 14 · Otoño

Bandoneón.

★ Buenos Aires

revista bandoneón

argentine literary

A Buenos Aires literary quarterly. Navy ink, cadmium yellow, italic serif, drop-cap editorial, sumario set as a table of contents, Spanish copy throughout.

open demo
№ 22

Maya.

On living slowly.

२२

maya, monsoon issue

indian editorial

A Bombay design quarterly. Saffron, indigo, maroon. Devanagari accents, dingbats between rules, side-by-side English/Hindi poems, gradient-mosaic photo essay.

open demo

Coyoacán

Casa
Sol.

6 habitaciones

casa sol

barragán architecture

A six-room hotel in Coyoacán. Pink walls, cobalt, terra cotta, ochre. Each room gets its own architectural color band. Reservations in Spanish, with cast shadows.

open demo

★ 自一九八五

王氏百貨

Wong's general goods.

★ SPRING CATALOGUE

王氏百貨 · wong's

hong kong catalogue

A Kowloon department store, est. 1985. Jade, ginger, cinnabar, sky. Mixed Chinese + English type, neon arc, marquee, nine product cards each with a giant carved kanji.

open demo

№ 07 · 2026

Ärla
upplagor.

ärla upplagor

scandinavian quiet

A Stockholm editions house. One designer a year, one chair this year. Warm bone paper, oat, sage, caramel accent. Furniture as careful catalogue.

open demo

BAIT.

بيت

Issue 09 · Spring

bait · بيت

levantine quarterly

A Beirut arts quarterly, set in Arabic and English. Indigo and terracotta, Mediterranean blue, zellij geometry. Bilingual TOC, bidirectional layout.

open demo

⸺ Third edition

AYÒ.

joy, in three days.

ayò festival

yorùbá kinetic

A Lagos festival of music & joy. Yinka Ilori palette (hot pink, ochre, cyan, lime, deep purple), zigzag separators, ÌBẸ̀RẸ̀ day cards, bilingual marquee.

open demo

⸺ Quatre chambres

Riad
Aïn.

riad aïn · رياض عين

moroccan zellij

A four-room riad in Marrakech medina. Majorelle blue, saffron, earth red, bone. SVG zellij tile motifs, trilingual (FR/AR/EN), four chambres each a coloured band.

open demo