ui experiments, 2026 edition

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.