Every page we tried for DEPO, one post each: what it is, how it was built, how it looks.
65 demos
The DEPO Connect page as cinema screens — a letterboxed banner, partners as 16:10 crops with the magazine name set huge across each card, wide FREE cards and a two-row People rail; the wheel scrolls the row under the cursor and the centred card is brighter.
The DEPO Connect page as feature + rail: every section is a large feature panel beside a horizontal rail; hovering or focusing a card crossfades it into the panel. Partners in one row, free magazines in two, people as portraits.
The Connect page as a newsstand at night: all 220 partner issues on a two-row shelf grouped by magazine, free titles in two rows, people in one. The wheel scrolls the row under the cursor; quiet controls sit inside each row.
The cleanest, product version of the DEPO Connect page and the reference rail engine — every section is one row (3:4 partner covers, smaller FREE cards, portraits); the wheel scrolls the row under the cursor, with quiet glass edge zones and a thin "03–06 / 56" progress line inside each row.
The Connect page as a premium kiosk at dusk: one lamp-lit walnut shelf per partner magazine with its issues fanned on it and leaning toward the cursor, free titles on an open rack, people as paper contact cards. All wrapping grids, no sideways scrolling.
The DEPO Connect page as a precise bento grid — the featured partner as a 2×2 tile with its next issues, mixed tall, wide and square tiles with glass captions, FREE as a dense six-column grid and People as a portrait bento.
The DEPO Connect page as a stack of cards: each partner magazine is a near-full-screen card that sticks and is covered by the next one, scaling down and dimming as it goes; free magazines and people follow as quiet grids.
The DEPO Connect page as a wall of all 220 partner issues in four columns that drift at different speeds as you scroll, with a sticky index of the 56 magazines beside it. Free titles follow as a quiet mosaic and the people as a staggered portrait grid.
The DEPO Connect page as a typographic index — one ruled row per partner magazine with its name set huge in a light serif and city, genre, year and issues in small caps; hover a row and its cover floats by the cursor while the rest dim. FREE and People are calm four-column grids.
Sign-up as a conversation: one big question per screen, Enter to go on, quick sign-up after the password, every profile question skippable, in DEPO's order of importance; a complete profile earns 7 days of full access.
Sign-up beside a magazine cover that builds itself as you type: your @username, name, roles and city become the cover lines. Two fields for a quick start; fill the whole cover for 7 days of full access.
The fastest DEPO sign-up in the live site's look: a username and a password, the three required boxes, Quick sign-up into the limited version — or the full profile on the same page in DEPO's order, with 7 days of full access for a complete one.
A shared DEPO sticker library — SVG, PNG, GIF, WebP and WebM, still and moving. Emoji and words call each sticker up in a chat picker; likes, a shared trash that is never emptied, packs downloaded as ZIP. Open API and MCP server.
Locals by day or by night: demo27's glowing speciality lights and glow layer, demo25's side panel with chips, people in view and the card, and a light and a dark theme for every base map — OpenStreetMap, Google, Topo, Satellite. Remembered; follows the system theme until you choose.
5762 numbered DEPO components in a database — 2183 buttons (own, every button of the owner's generator files), 300 paginations and arrows, 3279 icons — with votes, a top, a shared trash, an editor that reads even raw code and saves new pieces, and an import for AI-made buttons.
A nebula to breathe with: seven huge colour fields — azure, amethyst, violet, amber, blue haze — drift on slow sine curves, swell and fade on near-black, blurred so far that only colour remains, under a fine noise veil. No text, no controls.
Locals as a magazine index: an editorial banner (switchable), a numbered contents list of the 14 specialities with counts beside a Google hybrid map of photo stamps; pointing at an entry dims the rest; a person opens as a spread.
Locals at night: a cinematic duotone banner (switchable), a dark map where every person is a light in the colour of their speciality over a soft glow layer, and a frequency panel — one bar per speciality, as long as its share of the people in view.
Locals on Google Maps: a rounded banner card inside the page width (switchable), then the map with a search pill, a dock of the 14 specialities with live count badges and a carousel of the people in view; a person opens as a popup.
The live /locals page as a map: the site banner with four portraits per slide, switchable, then a map that fills the screen with a dark glass panel — speciality chips with live counts, the people in view and a card. OpenStreetMap (grey, colour, night) and Google Maps.
