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Saturated color, chunky rounded forms, springy motion, jokes in the copy. Interfaces that feel like objects you want to poke. Read it as a style sheet →

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Excalidraw — a first sketch

Playful / Toy-like · product UI flow

Source: pending · Classification: pending

Steal · component patternmodel draft
Selecting a tool opens its properties as a narrow left column (stroke, fill, width, roundness). The panel exists only while a tool is in hand, so the empty canvas stays empty.
Steal · texture/materialmodel draft
Shapes are drawn with a deliberate hand wobble. The roughness says 'draft', which makes people willing to put half an idea down.

Fonts: Assistant

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Original: Creator not recorded. Source verification: pending review.

Recorded rights label: private-reference-only. Original work and reproduction rights belong to their owners. A note license does not grant rights to copy a screenshot, trademark or design.

Trova notes: apply the principles in your own work, including commercial projects. Bulk republication or resale is not permitted. Usage terms.

Captured: 2026-10-10. Capture does not establish source verification.

Squoosh — codec switched to WebP

Playful / Toy-like · product UI flow

Source: pending · Classification: pending

Steal · motion/interactionmodel draft
Changing the codec recompresses in place and the saving badge updates. There is no apply button; the preview is the confirmation.
Steal · component patternmodel draft
Options grow with the codec. WebP adds lossless, effort and quality controls under the same header, and the rarely-touched ones stay folded under 'Advanced settings'.

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Original: Creator not recorded. Source verification: pending review.

Recorded rights label: private-reference-only. Original work and reproduction rights belong to their owners. A note license does not grant rights to copy a screenshot, trademark or design.

Trova notes: apply the principles in your own work, including commercial projects. Bulk republication or resale is not permitted. Usage terms.

Captured: 2026-10-10. Capture does not establish source verification.

Squoosh — editor, before/after split

Playful / Toy-like · product UI flow

Source: pending · Classification: pending

Steal · component patternmodel draft
The editor opens on a full-bleed split: original left, compressed right, one draggable divider. The comparison is the screen, not a preview inside a form.
Steal · grid/layoutmodel draft
Each half gets its own floating settings card in its own corner, so the two sides read as two jobs set against each other.
Steal · copywritingmodel draft
The result sits in the bottom corner as a number before any setting is touched: the size and a percentage saved. The first thing shown is what you get.

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Original: Creator not recorded. Source verification: pending review.

Recorded rights label: private-reference-only. Original work and reproduction rights belong to their owners. A note license does not grant rights to copy a screenshot, trademark or design.

Trova notes: apply the principles in your own work, including commercial projects. Bulk republication or resale is not permitted. Usage terms.

Captured: 2026-10-10. Capture does not establish source verification.

Squoosh — start screen

Playful / Toy-like · product UI flow

Source: pending · Classification: pending

Steal · component patternmodel draft
The first screen is one drop target: three overlapping pink blob shapes centered under the logo, an add-image icon, and "Drop OR Paste" with "Paste" underlined as a link. Steal a single oversized drop zone with paste offered as the second input, for a tool whose only first step is supplying a file.
Steal · grid/layoutmodel draft
Below a wave-edged blue band, "Or try one of these:" leads to four circular sample-image thumbnails. Steal sample inputs placed directly under the upload target, so the tool can be tried by someone with no file at hand.
Steal · texture/materialmodel draft
The ground is a pale grey-and-white checkerboard, the image editor's transparency convention, so the page reads as an empty image canvas; a "Ready to work offline" toast with "DISMISS" sits at the bottom edge. Steal the medium's own background convention as the app ground, and announce offline readiness in a dismissible toast.

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Original: Creator not recorded. Source verification: pending review.

Recorded rights label: private-reference-only. Original work and reproduction rights belong to their owners. A note license does not grant rights to copy a screenshot, trademark or design.

Trova notes: apply the principles in your own work, including commercial projects. Bulk republication or resale is not permitted. Usage terms.

Captured: 2026-10-10. Capture does not establish source verification.

Excalidraw — empty canvas

Playful / Toy-like · product UI flow

Source: pending · Classification: pending

Steal · component patternmodel draft
The empty canvas is annotated with handwritten hints and hand-drawn arrows pointing at real controls: "Export, preferences, languages, ..." at the menu, "Pick a tool & Start drawing!" at the toolbar, "Shortcuts & help" at the help button. Steal onboarding drawn in the product's own medium and aimed at the actual controls.
Steal · component patternmodel draft
The top-center toolbar holds twelve tools, ten with a single-letter shortcut set small at the icon's lower right (V, R, D, O, A, L, P, T, N, E), and a grey line below explains panning with keycaps for "Scroll wheel" and "Space". Steal the shortcut letter printed on each toolbar button, which teaches the keyboard while the mouse is in use.
Steal · copywritingmodel draft
The center block puts the logo over a three-line warning ("Your drawings are saved in your browser's storage. Browser storage can be cleared unexpectedly. Save your work to a file regularly to avoid losing it.") and then a short menu: Open (Ctrl+O), Help (?), Live collaboration..., Sign up. Steal an empty state that says where the data is stored before the first stroke, followed by the few actions with their shortcuts.

Fonts: Assistant

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Original: Creator not recorded. Source verification: pending review.

Recorded rights label: private-reference-only. Original work and reproduction rights belong to their owners. A note license does not grant rights to copy a screenshot, trademark or design.

Trova notes: apply the principles in your own work, including commercial projects. Bulk republication or resale is not permitted. Usage terms.

Captured: 2026-10-10. Capture does not establish source verification.

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