Selected Screens
A design reference is more useful when its source, context and visual evidence stay attached. Selected Screens turns a deliberately small archive into something people and search systems can inspect.
- Period
- 2026–now
- Role
- Founder, editor + design engineer
- Website
- selectedscreens.com
- Stack
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- Why this technology Astro Canonical archive, collection and research pages ship as finished HTML.
- Why this technology Cloudflare The static archive runs globally at the edge with controlled discovery caching.
- Why this technology Image analysis Published pixels support repeatable palette, surface and contrast measurements.
- ES Editorial systems
- TS Technical SEO
- AS AI search
Challenge
Strong interface work is scattered across social feeds, portfolios and launch posts. Those places are good at creating a first impression but poor at preserving attribution, grouping comparable decisions or explaining why a screen is worth revisiting.
Approach
I built a curated archive around canonical project pages, credited sources and a restrained filing system. Editorial classifications sit apart from measurements derived from the screenshots. The same evidence powers collection pages, a public dataset, a reproducible methodology and an original research report instead of being rewritten into disconnected SEO pages.
Outcome
The August 2026 snapshot contains 53 projects, 222 screenshots and 40 credited maker labels across 88 canonical URLs. Twenty-three evidence-backed collections expose useful comparisons, while the interface design index publishes sample sizes, limitations and downloadable JSON and CSV records.
Impact
- Every project keeps its maker, original source, editorial note and screenshot evidence together.
- Palette, surface, contrast and colour-family findings are generated from the published pixels.
- The research report is eligible for Dataset interpretation and provides an explicit citation format.
- Search engines and AI retrieval systems receive the same canonical entities, caveats and evidence links.
Credits
Product, curation, design, research, and development by Frank Spin