Deep dive

Expert design research: we search everywhere, capture the best sites at phone and computer sizes, and tell you what works and why.

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The depths and their prices

  • Quick$0.206 sites · about 3 mincaptures and reads each site; no Expert extras
  • Thorough$0.5015 sites · about 8 minmore sites, the same captures and analysis
  • Expert$1.2030 sites · about 18 minplus interactions, accessibility and speed

What a deep dive does

  1. Search every way we have.

    Our research sources, Exchange's web, picture and icon engines, open-source projects on GitHub through Code, design write-ups, and our own rules register and component registry.

  2. Choose the sites worth a look.

    A model ranks them with a reason each; you can add or drop any before Capture (Quick goes straight on).

  3. Capture them properly.

    390 and 1280 px, dark and light where the site supports it, the whole page after a slow scroll so lazy sections load, and the DOM facts:

    • type scale
    • palette
    • spacing
    • radii
    • shadows
    • grid
    • navigation
    • heading outline
    • button and link words
    • components

    Expert adds

    • open menus
    • hover and focus states
    • a transition frame strip
    • axe-core findings
    • LCP/CLS/INP
  4. Read them.

    A vision model reads each screenshot and a text model reads the measured facts and the words: hierarchy, density, what draws the eye, what is good and what fails.

  5. Synthesise.

    The patterns and how many sites use each, a comparison, the best version, what everyone gets wrong, the gap nobody fills, reference tokens as inspiration, do and don't, accessibility and speed, and recommendations checked against OpenVibe's own rules.

  6. Show the evidence.

    Every claim names its site, capture and the date it was read. Screenshots stay private to you and are shown as attributed commentary, never republished.

The price is shown before it starts and held; cancelling stops the spend. No paid screenshot service: our own Chrome, one page budget at a time.

Code and tools

Repositories are cited like any other source: by their GitHub URL, with the date they were read.

A repository is evidence for how a tool is built and how active it is. The rankings and the search are read through Code: trending today, hot by stars gained, new and most starred, or GitHub's own query syntax.

No repository code or README is copied; a card keeps what the repository states about itself and links to it.