Showcases Worth a Second Look
When every project brief starts to feel familiar, a curated gallery of what others have shipped can reset your perspective. The showcases below cover a broad spectrum — from sustainability-minded builds to playful side projects — and are worth bookmarking for different stages of the design process.
Collections Centered on Craft and Style
For design work rooted in a specific region or aesthetic, a few collections stand out. Design Made In Germany gathers the best output from German agencies and designers, spanning not just web design but also brand identity, print, packaging, logos, posters, and typefaces. If you want to look beyond the Latin alphabet, Responsive Web Design JP offers a journey through Japanese web design, showcasing work with a distinctive lightness and focus, browsable by technique even without Japanese language skills.
For those drawn to a darker palette, Dark Mode Design collects sites that are either exclusively dark or offer a switch, demonstrating that dark mode can be a creative foundation rather than a simple add-on. If restraint is more your style, Httpster, curated by Dominic Whittle and Tom Fitzgerald, focuses on strong typography and effective, unpretentious design — the result of a decade-old habit of sharing links between colleagues that grew into a proper archive.
On the lighter side of the spectrum, The Whimsical Web makes the case that the web should take itself less seriously, showcasing sites with built-in fun and unexpected details. Hoverstat.es goes further into experimental territory, describing itself as "the home of alternative design, code and content on the world wide web" — expect layered 3D previews, unconventional scrollers, and menus that break the mold.
Design With a Conscience and a Single Page
Not all inspiration has to come at the planet's expense. Lowwwcarbon features sustainably built, low-impact websites that prove good design doesn't require heavy JavaScript libraries or unoptimized images. The related Lowww directory is also dedicated to sustainable web design. For a different kind of constraint, One Page Love has been adding single-page websites and resources daily since 2008, ideal for landing pages that promote one thing straight to the point.
Siteinspire offers a broader sweep: nearly 8,000 sites curated by Howells—Studio, running from fun and novel to clean and simple, browsable by style, type, or subject. Personalsit.es is the go-to for refreshing your own corner of the web, packed with examples ranging from minimal to bold. For daily recognition, Awwwards awards its "Site of the Day" based on design, usability, creativity, and content, highlighting specifics like typography and color palette. And in the Inspirational Website Roundups, Manoela Ilic curates a rotating selection of exceptionally designed and crafted sites.
UX, Patterns, and Interaction Libraries
For interaction design in real-world contexts, Waveguide documents UX examples across platforms, from load-more pagination to QR code login, with curator JJ. Ramirez examining each case in detail. If you need a specific UI pattern, UI Garage holds over 6,700 handpicked, categorized patterns for web, mobile, and tablet. Design Vault is another stop for interface inspiration, with a growing collection of designs and patterns pulled from products like Netflix, Pinterest, Medium, and GitHub.
For e-commerce, Baymard Institute's database documents 12,000+ full-page design examples from 2012 to today, organized across 57 page types and covering desktop, mobile web, and mobile apps — each annotated with what works and what could improve from a UX standpoint. Ecomm.design takes a different angle, showcasing more than 3,800 e-commerce websites alongside their tech stacks, browsable by platform, category, technology, or traffic. For a more general look at page layouts, Landbook lets you browse by color, typography, style, and industry, while Landings collects hundreds of landing pages from leading companies, filterable by color and light or dark mode.
Mobile and flow-specific libraries also warrant attention. Mobbin offers a library of over 100,000 searchable mobile and web screenshots organized by app category, screen pattern, and user flow; a login is required, with the free plan covering the week's latest app designs. Page Flows helps with user flow design through more than 3,300 recordings from proven products, covering onboarding, upgrades, and invitations behind a membership. UI Sources captures end-to-end user journeys to help spot trends, with some features requiring a subscription. For SaaS-focused work, SaaS App Design Inspiration collects UI and UX examples from notable SaaS products, with a subscription for full gallery access, while Saas Landing Page Examples offers UI examples from SaaS companies covering everything from pricing to testimonials.
Typography Following You, and a Weekly Digests
For font decisions, Fonts In Use is an independent archive indexing typography by typeface, format, industry, and period — a practical tool for discovering new typefaces and pairings. If you prefer your inspiration delivered, the UIJar newsletter sends design updates, articles, and resources weekly, with an online showcase of handpicked websites and branding, including curated collections on topics like brutalist design and big typography.
