Design inspirations
Where to find design inspiration — the galleries and reference boards worth pointing at, and the 2026 twist: point your agent at the gallery, let it pick the inspo and apply it, review the result (zan’s workflow, captured: “point your agent to that and let it do the rest — review as always”). The sibling note Personal websites inspiration holds individual sites worth stealing from; this one holds the sources to browse.
SEESAW — web UI inspiration, hand-picked
seesaw.website — “The best web design inspiration. Browse the best of the internet. Hand-picked and updated daily.” A Next.js gallery of curated sites, each entry = favicon + name + one-line pitch, organized as /websites/ pages (e.g. Foundation, Grok Bot, personal sites of design engineers). Verified from the live page: current curation skews product landing pages and designer personal sites — exactly the lane for landing-page work. USER NOTE, verbatim: “Great resource for design inspiration.”
Appllama — mobile design reference boards
appllama.io — mobile-app design reference boards (“Design Reference Apps, 41 items, Public” — verified live). Zan’s pairing rule: confused about the best UI for your next mobile app → start from a reference board, not a blank canvas. (original tweet, captured)
The workflow: agent + gallery, human review
The pattern across both zan tweets — galleries are becoming agent-consumable design context:
- Pick the gallery matching the surface (web → SEESAW, mobile → Appllama board).
- Point the agent at it; let it find the inspo for the thing being built and apply it.
- Review as always — “review to make sure it fits your need.” Taste (What matters in AI world) is the review layer, not the browsing layer.
Kin: Personal websites inspiration (individual sites), Concepts visualization (the diagram variant of reference-driven design: +200 example SVGs as few-shot corpus).