Inspo drop: 2 sites that blew up my Figma

_{Day 136/100}

Hey—It's Tim. 

Happy Friday everyone.

Spotify on “flow”, Chrome running hotter than my GPU.

It felt like the right moment to bring back an inspo edition - the kind that makes you close this tab, open Webflow / VS Code / Thrive Themes, and start fiddling with z-index values till 2 a.m.

My personal front-end reality check

A few weeks ago I tried to shoe-horn parallax scroll into a Thrive Themes landing page.
I broke the header, turned my CTA button invisible, and somehow introduced a flicker that only appeared on my tablet.

Moral: I might write about content, but the front end still slaps me around for fun.

So today I’m bowing to the masters.

Micro

The SaaS formerly known as “an inbox”… but built like a theme-park.

• Self-organising narrative. 
  The hero copy literally tells you to relax: “Organized. So you don’t have to be.”
  

• Micro-interactions everywhere. 
  Buttons swell, cards tilt, cursor morphs — tiny dopamine pumps that whisper “we thought of that.”
  

• One-scroll story arc. 
  The page rhythm feels like: hook → benefit → proof → enlist. By the time you hit the “Join the Waitlist” button you’ve subconsciously agreed that brute-force productivity is medieval.

If your product promises to remove chaos, the UI must prove it before the copy does.

(I’m reverse-engineering their sections in Figma tonight. If Thrive eats it… pray for me.)

Montfort

Interactive oil-&-gas juggernaut site… yet somehow zen.

• 3D scene transitions. 
  Whole pages slide like shipping containers in zero-G. Every scroll feels expensive.
  

• Muted two-colour palette. 
  Deep nautical blue (#29648E) plus off-white keeps the spectacle classy, not carnival.

Corporate doesn’t mean boring. Swap stock photos for motion and you turn compliance talk into cinema.

Why this matters to content marketers

1. Design = Trust. 
   Before anyone reads your 2,000-word teardown, their reptile brain decides if you look credible.
   

2. Micro-copy loves micro-interactions. 
   A one-word label on a playful hover state is more memorable than a 40-word paragraph.
   

3. Distribution cheat-code. 
   That Awwwards winner badge could mean a lot of juicy backlinks. Jus’ sayin’

I’m off to wrestle Thrive Themes until it lets me animate a single div without combusting.

Send caffeine.

✌️ Tim "CSS Confetti" Hanson
CMO @Penfriend.ai

Same brain, different platforms: X, Threads, LinkedIn.

P.S. Send me your favourite sites you’ve come across recently. I’d love to see them.

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