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What I look at

Real sites, the design systems behind the best of them, breakdowns from the people who made them, and the way I read all of it.

Showing Breakdowns

Great sites taken apart, using their makers’ own write-ups. Each one says what they decided, how they built it, and what I take from it.

Case studies

  1. Bruno Simon’s portfolio: a red off-road car on a pink-lit path between trees and large purple 3D letters
    [01] bruno-simon-folio

    Bruno Simon: a portfolio you drive

    Two open-source three.js portfolios where you steer a small vehicle around a world, from the 2019 cannon.js original to the 2025 WebGPU rebuild.

    read the breakdown →
  2. The Sonner site with three toasts stacked in the bottom-right corner
    [02] emil-sonner

    Sonner: how a toast earns its polish

    Emil Kowalski's own breakdown of the details behind Sonner, the React toast library, from stacking maths to swipe velocity and interruptible motion.

    read the breakdown →
  3. [03] github-globe

    GitHub globe: live data as a WebGL scene

    How GitHub drew a globe of real pull requests from about 12,000 instanced dots, hid its own performance shortcuts inside the design, and degraded gracefully on slow devices.

    read the breakdown →
  4. The Igloo Inc. home screen: a glowing igloo of ice blocks in a snowy mountain landscape
    [04] igloo-inc

    Igloo Inc.: a company site carved out of ice

    How abeto built the Awwwards Site of the Year with procedural ice, compressed volume data and a WebGL interface, all in three.js.

    read the breakdown →
  5. Josh W. Comeau’s blog home page
    [05] josh-comeau

    Josh W. Comeau: whimsy, explained by its maker

    How Josh Comeau builds the playful details on his blog, from randomised sparkles to a rainbow button powered by registered custom properties.

    read the breakdown →
  6. Linear’s homepage in dark mode: a large white headline on near-black above a product screenshot
    [06] linear-redesign

    Linear: redesigning a dense dark UI

    How Linear cut visual noise, rebuilt its themes in LCH from three inputs, and shipped a full UI redesign in about six weeks, from its own write-up.

    read the breakdown →
  7. The Stripe Connect page: a dark headline, faint dashed grid lines and a phone showing a dashboard
    [07] stripe-connect

    Stripe Connect: motion that stays fast

    Stripe's own write-up of its Connect page, with CSS Grid stripes, CSS 3D cubes, a 5KB Web Animations demo and polyfills only for those who need them, plus how its animated mesh gradient works.

    read the breakdown →
  8. The Vercel badge hanging from its lanyard: a black card with a large SHIP graphic
    [08] vercel-3d-badge

    Vercel Ship badge: a lanyard you can grab

    How Vercel turned a conference ticket into a 3D badge on a physics rope, in about 80 lines of React Three Fiber.

    read the breakdown →