The shade
Every tray tile is read off the capture itself, so this compartment holds the sites where the shade genuinely carries the page — not the ones that merely claim it.
7 catches in this compartment
Playdate is Panic's pocket-sized yellow game console with a hand crank, shipping games in surprise seasonal batches from indie developers. The whole project — hardware, distribution, website — runs on the premise that fun is a legitimate spec.
Mercury provides banking and finance software to startups, and has spent years arguing that financial software deserves real design attention. Much of the industry's current taste in fintech interfaces traces back to this company's output.
The Pudding publishes visual essays that argue cultural questions with data — rap vocabularies, laugh tracks, the geometry of jeans pockets. Each story ships as its own bespoke piece of interactive journalism, built by a small studio of journalist-engineers.
Neal.fun is Neal Agarwal's one-person arcade of interactive toys — scroll the depths of the ocean, spend Bill Gates' fortune, survive password purgatory. Several of its games rank among the most-shared pages on the modern web.
Headspace turned guided meditation into a mainstream subscription app, with mental-health coaching and sleep content folded in since. Its round-headed characters and sunrise palette made calm itself into a recognizable visual brand.
Monocle is Tyler Brûlé's magazine of global affairs, business and soft power, published on paper first since 2007 with a radio station on the side. Its website behaves like a broadsheet that happens to load in a browser.
The Rijksmuseum is the Netherlands' national museum of art and history, home of The Night Watch and The Milkmaid. It was an early mover in giving away ultra-high-resolution scans of its own masterpieces for anyone to download and reuse.
