Design references for coding agents
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Vast-Quiet Cinematic
Open referenceIgloo Inc
The move · motion/interaction
Camera dolly through 3D ice responds to scroll velocity, not position — fast scrolls feel like skidding. Inertia as a material property.
Source correspondence pending.Original source ↗
- Claude Code
- Codex
- Cursor
- Copilot
- Grok
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- Windsurf
- Cline
- Gemini CLI
- OpenCode
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Every entry answers three questions
Where is it from?
Provenance, always: the source gallery, the live URL, the day it was caught. Taste without receipts is just vibes.
What family is it?
A family describes a design direction. Classification and source correspondence are being checked before collections are promoted as reviewed.
What would you steal?
The forcing function, and the whole reason this is a library rather than a folder. Nothing gets filed without a steal-note that names the move. The curator writes them; when a model drafts one, the card says so, in the open.
The note · steal type: motion/interaction · Notes by Will
Camera dolly through 3D ice responds to scroll velocity, not position — fast scrolls feel like skidding. Inertia as a material property.
- Entry
- Igloo Inc
- Family
- Vast-Quiet Cinematic
- Via
- Awwwards
- Filed
- July 25, 2026
Inspect the output, including the failures.
Daybreak FM is a fictional radio-player brief. These saved runs used the same task and the grok-4 alias (provider-reported grok-4.3) on 9 September 2026. They compare guidance and revision, not a controlled with/without-Trova experiment. No improved conversion or universal quality benefit is claimed.
The next test
Trova, Impeccable, and a clean baseline.
Same task, same model, same resource limits. Three tasks, three repetitions, three approaches: 27 planned outcomes, including failures. Desktop and phone results belong side by side.
This controlled comparison has not been run. The harness has been tested with fixtures; those fixtures are not product evidence. No superiority claim is supported yet. The saved experiments below remain exploratory.
The interaction structure changed, but selected-state contrast and mobile overlap still failed. More context did not establish better composition.
Inspect inputs & checks
Inspect inputs & checks
Reproduction: use the published task and note context with the recorded model, then render the supplied output and assess required content, keyboard behavior, contrast, overflow and composition. Revisions additionally use the preceding output and screenshots. Duration metadata records generation time; a fixed total time budget was not imposed. Provider changes and stochastic output prevent pixel-identical replay. These are generated evaluation images, not reproductions of the original reference works.
The vault talks to your agent
“Make it feel like mine” finally means something.
Trova ships an MCP server — MCP is the open protocol coding agents use to call outside tools. Mid-build, your agent pulls steal-notes, palettes, and font pairings straight from the vault, so its suggestions argue from a point of view instead of the internet’s average.
One command in Claude Code, a few lines of config in Codex, Cursor, or VS Code. The field guide covers the setup.
> build the hero section for a developer-tools landing page
I'll start by pulling the design direction from the Trova vault, as the project instructions require.
● list_families() · 8 families
● design_context(family: "print-tech", section: "hero")
● search_steals(q: "monospace spec sheet annotation callout")
The vault is unambiguous on fit here: Print-Tech Paper — “software presented like a beautifully printed manual” — is the family for a developer tool. I'm honoring its steal-notes literally:
· Datasheet as brand voice → the hero carries a real spec block, part number, revision code
· Commerce as engineering paperwork → the CTA is an order form with [x] checkboxes, not two buttons
· Clearspace with measurement callouts → dimension lines bracket the headline
● Write(hero.tsx) · 366 lines
A real session, verbatim — nine turns, one 366-line file.
And the same server, right now
→ search_steals(q: "hero")
[grid/layout] Replace the standard SaaS marketing hero with a full-viewport desktop surface (`100vw × 100vh`) featuring a left-hand column of 64×64px double-clickable desktop icons (`Product OS`, `Pricing.calc`, `Docs.md`) and a persistent top menu bar. — from "PostHog Website OS — Draggable Multi-Window Product Workspace & Dock" (Virtual Desktop / In-Browser OS) Editorial review: source pending; classification pending; 0 note(s) approved. Unreviewed fallback; verify the source before applying these notes. Authorship and image permissions are separate. [texture/material] [model draft] The hero combines a blue sky field with torn-paper edges and notebook-like fragments around the product preview. The material references relate to note-taking rather than functioning as unrelated decoration. — from "Craft — tactile collage around a product preview" (Playful / Toy-like) Editorial review: source pending; classification pending; 0 note(s) approved. Unreviewed fallback; verify the source before applying these notes. Authorship and image permissions are separate.
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