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Well designed websites according to Henri.

Henri's favorite examples of beautiful web design, with his notes. Click any card to visit the real site. C'est la vie.

Apple website screenshot

Apple →

The product page as theatre. Every scroll is a drumroll. Copy them, but politely.

Notion website screenshot

Notion →

A blank page that does not frighten you. That is the hardest trick in design.

Teehan+Lax website screenshot, archived

Teehan+Lax →

Gone but not forgotten. They made software feel human before it was fashionable.

Stripe website screenshot

Stripe →

Documentation so beautiful developers read it for fun. The gradient masters.

Linear website screenshot

Linear →

Speed as a design feature. Every pixel earns its place. Dark mode, done properly.

Figma website screenshot

Figma →

Practices what it preaches: clarity, all the way down. A tool site that feels like play.

Airbnb website screenshot

Airbnb →

They sell belonging, not rooms. So simple your grandmother books in minutes.

Teenage Engineering website screenshot

Teenage Engineering →

Brutalist, playful, precise. Proof that rules are for breaking beautifully.

Arc website screenshot

Arc →

The internet like a desk, not a slot machine. Finally, some manners.

Raycast website screenshot

Raycast →

Your launcher, but make it fashion. Speed you can actually feel.

Framer website screenshot

Framer →

Design that ships itself. The canvas is the website now.

Pitch website screenshot

Pitch →

Decks without the death-by-PowerPoint. Presentations with a pulse.

Attio website screenshot

Attio →

A CRM that does not look like punishment. Clean data, clean lines.

Tailwind CSS website screenshot

Tailwind →

Utility-first everything. The docs alone are a design lesson.

Ramp website screenshot

Ramp →

Corporate cards, minus the corporate. Finance with good taste.

Mercury website screenshot

Mercury →

Banking that looks designed this decade. Because it was.

Superhuman website screenshot

Superhuman →

Email at the speed of thought. The fastest inbox, dressed well.

Supabase website screenshot

Supabase →

The open-source Firebase. Postgres with a designer haircut.

Aimé Leon Dore website screenshot

Aimé Leon Dore →

Queens luxury with a record collection. The site feels like the inside of their Mulberry Street store.

The Row website screenshot

The Row →

Whisper-quiet luxury. Barely a word on the page, and somehow that says everything.

Teenage Engineering website screenshot

Teenage Engineering →

Swedish chaos, beautifully engineered. A website that looks the way their synths sound.

Collins website screenshot

Collins →

Brand designers who treat their own site like a client project. It shows.

Koto website screenshot

Koto →

Big type, bigger confidence. A portfolio that never asks permission.

Lemaire website screenshot

Lemaire →

Parisian restraint. Soft light, softer tailoring, zero shouting.

Stüssy website screenshot

Stüssy →

Streetwear's elder statesman. Cool for forty years and still not trying.

Pentagram website screenshot

Pentagram →

The design world's design firm. Understated to the point of smugness, and they have earned it.