In the past there was plenty of these websites i.e. Design is Kinky, etc.

I also remember the early css reboots. But I'm going into nostalgia now. :)

https://www.on-running.com/ https://www.mammut.com/uk/en https://www.patagonia.com/home/

1. I'm not even presented with filters until after I click a "show filters" button – they default to hiding useful elements just so that the page looks more minimal when initially displayed 2. every time I add a new filter, the page reloads and the filters scroll back up to the top, and I have to scroll down the iframey-type interface on the left to get down to where I was in the list of filters

Mammut doesn't put its filter UI inside of a separate tiny scrolling box at least, though it does annoyingly scroll to the top every time I add another filter. Also, after browsing shoes for a minute, it interrupts me by greying out the screen and popping up some advertisement.

https://www.lingscars.com/

Loads ultra fast, comprehensive filtering and specification for every class of product, excellently categorised.

It's a website so good I wish I worked in metalworking and lived in North America, just so I could have a use for it.

I've yet to find any sites with actual real world UX examples, sites with actual content, actual text, without miles and miles of scroll, enormous whitespace or huge font with one single word.

Examples that don't show how to elegantly present at least 5+ elements, or communicate clearly a product in one single viewport without scrolling is useless for actual business, or even just for presenting a few things in a portfolio.

If you are doing work for a company you need to put lots actual content on the screen while following art direction, and that is the hard part all of these examples skip.

I suppose this is the TailwindUI value proposition.

I get the art style is overused but wow, that community is blowing my mind. I can’t imagine being offended by something so innocuous.

Who has time to browse those?

* Auditional: Powerful Audition Tracking Made Simple

* piefi: One App to Run Your Money

* Peerlist: The Professional Network You've Been Waiting for

* Arrows: Collaborative Customer Onboarding Plans for Teams Using Hubspot

Some of these could use some work, but they are front and center?

You're the x I've been waiting for? Great, why?

You're x made simple? Great, how?

etc.

* automatic bullshit generators were available online even before the current "AI" religion.

Bookmarked.

But let’s be real: they’re way too marketing-y for the HN crowd. Don’t they know we like 10px text and as few margins as possible? Information density, people!

It is clearly a company doesn't want to be lumped together with Typeform, Surveymonkey or Google Forms, so it's positioning itself as a "employee engagement, performance and development tools". They want to sell tooling that is specific to HRs and other people that might have the desire for those specific tools.

I get the desire for boxing things in 10 or 20 neat categories, but companies (and especially those that have a sales team) are often looking to differentiate themselves.

Whether they are able to execute this well remains to be seen, naturally.

I struggled with what you describe and art/design more generally. I started photography as a tech person and naturally gravitated to being a gear head. Now I still shoot with my ancient Canon EOS 7d and it's much more relaxing. I only got there by doing everything by making hard break from looking at the technical aspects, avoiding certain forums, finding photo walks without gearheads, etc.

With time I started to appreciate other elements of design and be able to put things together without the feelings that existed before. I'm not sure if there is a particular psychological description of this. There is definitely an element of my anxiety at play though.

The 10px and margins get to me too. I'm probably better at articulating my views now with designers that results in productive outcomes. If designers only have the ear of the CEO though it's a lost cause.

Also, even if you're an information density nerd you need tactical whitespace that helps you quickly jump to the right text box.

FFS it's 2024, we're supposed to be thinking mobile-first, and focusing on experiences for the majority of visitors (i.e., mobile), and yet "inspiration" remains "look at these desktop designs"?

When does such irresponsibility become negligence?

/rant

If it's mobile—and for most consumer businesses it will be—then design mobile-first. We're an enterprise SaaS company. I tell our designers that we should design responsively, but to design desktop-first, because 90% of our users are using a desktop.

But it's not just this site, is it? FE developers and FE engineers think mobile-first, and yet the designers' default is still desktop (when it's often the minority, and fading). What could go wrong?

Used to be the place for web design inspiration. The granddaddy of all web galleries with a focus on design and styling elements. Really well curated, but picky and exclusive as heck. Then came Dribbble, derived directly from it. Followed by the flood of web galleries, design awards and what not. All stemmed from the Tap.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20080725032756/patterntap.com

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20130328040241/patterntap.com

Already found a few products/topics of interest while browsing web designs :)

This reminds me of many other gallery sites, but one of the best right now is https://httpster.net/. Lots of inspiring, minimalist, but beautiful websites.