App UX Library

Explore app designs

A directory of well-known apps by genre — each with a UX and interface breakdown. Plus real product flows, captured, ordered, and annotated so you can study what works.

Recently taken apart

The apps we've captured screen by screen, with notes on the clarity decisions behind them.

Zillow

The map IS the search — listings live as pins, not rows.

2 flows · 6 screens

YouTube

How the logged-out viewer gets pulled toward an account

1 flow · 3 screens

Stripe

Payments infrastructure for the internet.

1 flow · 3 screens

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Every well-known app, organized by what it is — and what its interface does well.

Search Engines

How query boxes, results, and ranking turn intent into answers.

10 apps

Web Browsers

The chrome around the web — tabs, address bars, and the UI you forget is UI.

10 apps

Utilities

Small, fast tools that live a keystroke away.

10 apps

All apps

Every app in the library — filter by category and industry to narrow down the interfaces you want to study.

Adobe Photoshop

The raster editor whose panel-and-layer model defined the genre.

Adobe Premiere Pro

Timeline-based editing with the classic three-panel cut.

Airbnb

Analyzed

Map and list bound together, with price total that arrives too late.

Airtable

Analyzed

A spreadsheet that behaves like a relational database.

Alfred

Keyword-prefixed commands turn a search bar into a scriptable command line.

Alibaba

B2B wholesale UX built around MOQ, tiers, and contact-supplier.

AllTrails

Trail discovery driven by faceted filters over difficulty, length, and features.

Amazon

The product page as an infinite scroll of modules nobody fully reads.

American Airlines

Analyzed

Booking a flight on the largest carrier in the world.

Among Us

A proximity meeting screen and kill-cooldown button drive all the social tension.

Android

A back-home-recents triad and a pull-down notification shade.

Angry Birds

The whole game is one gesture: pull the slingshot, read the trajectory, release.

App Store

Editorial Today tab fronting an algorithmic ranking nobody can read.

Apple

Analyzed

Product pages built to be evaluated, not just read.

Apple Maps

Restraint as a feature: fewer labels, calmer map, system-deep integration.

Apple Music

An editorial-first browse with full-bleed typography over algorithmic shelves.

Apple Pay

Double-click, glance, hold — payment as a hardware gesture, not a screen.

Arc

Tabs moved to a sidebar and made disposable — the URL bar became a command bar.

Attention Insight

Analyzed

AI-predicted attention heatmaps that tell a designer where people will look — before a single real user shows up.

AWS Management Console

Hundreds of services stitched into one inconsistent navigation shell.

Axure

Analyzed

Selling depth in a market that now sells speed

Baidu

A long, card-stacked results page where owned-property answers dominate the top.

Banani

Analyzed

An AI UI generator that turns a plain-language product description into an editable, multi-screen prototype — and then hands it to Figma or to your coding agent.

Baymard

Analyzed

Selling research findings to people who are paid to be skeptical

BeReal

A once-a-day notification gates the entire posting interface.

Bing

A magazine-style results page with a daily photo backdrop and a wide right rail.

Blender

A free 3D suite that fits a whole pipeline in one window.

Booking.com

Analyzed

Urgency messaging turned into a permanent design language.

Box

Enterprise file access governed by visible, granular permissions.

Brave

A per-site shield counter that makes blocked trackers a visible, tappable number.