Riccardo Marconato

Journal

Short notes on design work I rate, and why. A new pick most days.

Figma Motion product page: headline reading Create precise, production-ready animations right on the canvas, with a design file open and a Motion panel on the right

Tools

Figma Motion puts the timeline where the design already lives

A minimal white webpage with large black text reading 'Nano Banana Pro x PORTO ROCHA' and small YOYOYO and INTRO navigation pills at the top.

Industry

Porto Rocha made a working yo-yo with Nano Banana Pro, and left the prompts on the page

Artemii Lebedev's homepage: a white monospace index card top-left over a dark screen showing a Ponder AI software mockup, with a project list, a live CEST clock, a location line, and 'PRESS ESC FOR EFFECTS' pinned at the bottom.

Inspiration

The console layout: Artemii Lebedev runs his portfolio like software

Six dark metallic Ciao Energy cans floating in a black studio void between two turntable discs, a purple Double Litchi can facing front, rainbow progress bar below

Top Picks

Ciao Energy spins its whole range on a single turntable

Collection home page: white background with a black heraldic crest in the centre, the serif wordmark COLLECTION at the top, and a giant display headline reading THE CREATIVES' whose bottom edge fades out.

Websites

Collection puts the punchline where the client name usually goes

Mattia Saggiomo homepage: a warm dark video plays behind a monospace index of five projects, each with client, title, role and year

Inspiration

The credits-index layout: Mattia Saggiomo lists his reel like film end-credits

Izanami homepage: a near-black screen with fog drifting through the middle, a small serif line reading Remember who you are, a square carved IZANAMI seal top left, and two live clocks for Dubai and Tokyo in the footer

Top Picks

Izanami lets one carved seal hold up an almost empty hero

Serotoninn homepage hero: a model whose photo is torn down the middle, colour on the left with red sunglasses and black-and-white on the right, with the wordmark SEROTONINN and the tagline WHERE GLAM MEETS GRUNGE in heavy condensed type.

Inspiration

Bracketed labels: Serotoninn runs its whole shop like a spec sheet

Koto's Stack Overflow case study hero: a black page titled Stack Overflow, Always in Build, TECH 2026, with an orange-framed video showing the words Always in on a yellow block, above the heading A legacy recoded

Industry

Stack Overflow rebranded around the answer an LLM can't scrape

Jeton home page: a stack of translucent chips fanning out on a warm pink-to-orange gradient, with the headline One app for all needs

Websites

Jeton named itself after a chip, then built the whole site out of chips

The Normal is Boring home page on a warm off-white background, a grotesque headline ending in the italic serif word ordinario, with a photo of a minimalist oak-and-limestone interior on the right

Top Picks

Normal is Boring saves the italic serif for the word that matters

Coca-Cola media centre press release dated 20 July 2026, headline reading One Iconic Brand. One Iconic Look., with a red can below it

Industry

Coca-Cola shipped one visual system, and the rulebook now compiles

Webflow's Custom Fonts in Libraries release page, with the Designer's Libraries panel showing a Library called Doggo listing 35 components, 103 variables and 5 fonts above a blue Share updates button

Tools

Webflow started counting fonts the way it counts components

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