study 01 · rebuild study · 2 layers (interface & motion)
their design, my build
Someone else's design, rebuilt to learn how the timing works.
- role
- All of the build. None of the design — the layout, type and art direction are theirs, not mine.
- stack
- React · React Router DOM · Tailwind CSS · Framer Motion · Lenis
- status
- A study, not a product — labelled as one here and on the live page
- see it
- Open the study · Source
The cutaway
2 of 4 layers · no backend or database
layer 01 of 02 · interface
what it is, and whose it is
Reference measurement → Rebuild implementationReact + Tailwind CSS
- what it is
- A rebuild of Spain Collection, an Awwwards-featured site, made to learn scroll choreography from the inside rather than from a tutorial.
- whose design
- The layout, type and art direction are theirs, not mine. It is labelled a study here and on the live page, because that is exactly what it is.
layer 02 of 02 · motion
what actually moves
Scroll-linked progress interpolationFramer Motion + Lenis
- scroll-linked transitions
- Scrolling drives the transitions rather than triggering them.
- section choreography
- How each section hands off to the next.
- what came out of it
- A sense of how much timing work sits behind a page that feels effortless.
Constraints
what the build had to work around
- the design is not mine
- Almost every rebuild is shown as original work. This one cannot be, because the art direction belongs to someone else — so the only honest deliverable is a study, and the only claim it makes is about the build.
- timing is a performance problem first
- Scroll-linked motion has to stay in step with someone who can scroll as fast as they like, which makes it a performance constraint before it is a design one.
Kept in the Studies section because it is honest about where the motion work started — and because the timing problems in it are real ones.
Other cutaways
two more
01short.linkinspect short.link cutaway →A URL shortener where the backend was the hard part — rotating refresh tokens and a deploy that rolls itself back.02NutriGaininspect nutrigain cutaway →A tracker that turns logged volume into charts, on a design system that holds AA contrast in both themes.↖All work & studiesback to the showcase →