waitlist.design
Studying the Page Before the Product
A curated collection of waitlist pages, captured in motion and organized for close inspection.
Ian Gabriel Agujitas
A waitlist page has a compact job: make an unfinished product understandable enough that someone wants to hear from it again. I built waitlist.design as a place to look closely at how different pages do that.
The collection treats motion as part of the reference. A still image can show typography and composition, but it cannot explain an entrance, a hover response, or the pacing of a reveal.
Design process
The interface moves between two modes: scanning the collection and studying a single page. The grid supports the first, with category filters narrowing the field. Opening a study gives a reference more room without losing the sense that it belongs to a larger queue.
Navigation is a small but deliberate decision in the implementation. Moving to the next reference replaces the current study in browser history. Back exits the study instead of forcing a visitor through every item they just inspected. A direct link still has a way back to the collection. That behavior makes browsing feel lightweight while keeping individual references shareable.
Search has its own keyboard entry point, and the surprise action provides another way into the collection when there is no specific query. These are different starting points for the same task: find a page worth spending time with.
Room for the references
The surrounding interface needs enough structure to make comparison easy, but not so much visual weight that it competes with the pages. A responsive grid, consistent preview frames, and a focused study view create that continuity. The captured work supplies the variety.
The project uses React and Vite, deployed through Cloudflare Workers. The cataloguing workflow is separate from the public browsing experience, allowing the collection to be maintained without exposing editing controls to visitors.
This build brings the research process into the product itself: gather a useful reference, preserve how it behaves, and make it easy to return to. The site is a collection of other makers' work; the gallery, navigation, and study experience are my design contribution.
