Site of the Day Teardowns
This section covers only the standout Awwwards and FWA Sites of the Day, those scoring 7.60 or higher on Awwwards or 85 points or higher on the FWA. Each report examines the concept, visual design, interaction and front-end build behind the award, with performance and asset data measured in a real browser.
- Reports
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- Awwwards
- 6
- FWA
- 10
- Latest
- 2026.10.12
Heron AI
Heron AI is the website of an AI assistant that checks architects' plans, and its home page makes the visitor play plan checker. The first screen is a house elevation drawn on a drafting sheet, and the cursor becomes the crosshair of a design program. When the visitor drags a box around a red dot on the house, an orange card pops up saying that the building code requires a handrail here. Heron sells an AI assistant that checks architects' models for exactly this kind of violation, and the home page lets visitors do that job by hand before the product offers to do it for them.
Experience FunTech Creativity
Experience FunTech Creativity is the website the Tokyo studio FunTech made for its 2026 showreel film, HELLO, WORLD., and visitors have to play it with their own hands to see the rest. Ten real-time 3D scenes follow one another, and each one leaves the visitor a job to do. The visitor switches the mascot Fun-kun through layer after layer of rendering, calls down lightning, walks between statues of the whole staff and knocks on an old computer's screen until Fun-kun breaks out. Only when one job is done does the site move on to the next scene.
Maria Vasilyeva Portfolio
Maria Vasilyeva Portfolio is the personal portfolio of the designer Maria Vasilyeva, laid out as a musical score with the designer's own handwritten notes on it. When a visitor scrolls, a playhead sweeps across the seven staff lines of the home page, and whichever project it reaches has its pictures jump up off the line into a pile. In the menu, the four words NOTES, MELODY, OVERTURE and JAZZ are each crossed out with a handwritten scribble, with what they really mean written in beside them. One switch turns this handwritten layer off, and when it goes, the seven staff lines go with it.
Lidar Drone Scanning
Lidar Drone Scanning is the official website of a drone that does not exist. The Polish studio Riotters invented a LiDAR inspection drone brand called Aevion, then built its site the way real product sites are built, from the hovering drone and the spec sheet all the way to the data software. The most convincing part comes at the end, a 3D terrain map where a visitor clicks a point, the camera flies to it and a panel with a risk level and a confidence score opens, like a real inspection report.
Night Drive Racing Game
Night Drive Racing Game is a whole open-world racing game that lives in a web page. A visitor who opens the link can drive a sports car anywhere in a rain-soaked neon city full of jobs, street races and dozens of hidden symbols to find. Players can also get out and walk, swap cars in a garage, or send a link that brings up to three friends into the same city. The reflections in the puddles, the raindrops on the bodywork and the water on the lens are all calculated live by the graphics card.
Long Hoang Portfolio
Long Hoang's job-hunting portfolio is a game in which the visitor drives a tank. After the start screen, the visitor steers a small lime green tank from a grassy hill into a cartoon factory, where the author's four projects are loaded into a machine with a screen. When the visitor parks the tank in front of the machine and presses a key, the camera drops to ground level, the screen lights up with a project, and a card shaped like torn paper appears beside it. A visitor with no time to play can press a button at the bottom of the screen, and the tank is delivered directly to the work.
Jesper Landberg
Jesper Landberg's personal portfolio treats the whole web page as a material that can be twisted, pushed up and swallowed. The eight featured projects sit on one curved ribbon, and the faster the visitor scrolls, the more the left end rears toward the camera while the two edges wring in opposite directions. As the cursor moves, it acts like a ball rolling under the page, raising a bulge in the picture wherever it passes before the bulge slowly settles. When the visitor opens the introduction labelled PROFILE in the top right corner, a black hole opens in the middle of the page, and its gravity bends the surrounding picture into a ring of light with coloured edges. The navigation and card titles on the home page are drawn together with the pictures, so when the page bends, the words bend with it.
Léo Parpeix - Portfolio 2026
Léo Parpeix's portfolio is built as a sculpture studio a visitor can walk into, with no wall of thumbnails. A plaster daisy with a face stands on the plinth in the middle of the room, and the design drawing for the same flower hangs on the wall to its right. With the finished piece and its drawing in one frame, a visitor sees both the result and the process behind it the moment they arrive. As the visitor scrolls down, the camera moves on into other rooms, such as a library lined with books.
No Mercy Michel
No Mercy Michel is an arm-wrestling game in which the Paris studio Merci-Michel sets its own staff up as the opponents. After entering a nickname, the visitor first waits online for a human opponent, and if none turns up, a Merci-Michel employee steps in. Each of the 28 employees has an arm with its own skin tone, tattoos and accessories. One of them wears a Rolex, while another has a baguette and a pizza tattooed on. Matches are best of three, and the only thing being tested is who can click faster.
Gil Huybrecht
Gil Huybrecht's portfolio site is normally a wall of screenshots on black, with a home page set in one typeface at one size, yet a switch in its bottom right corner turns the whole site into a Star Wars edition. The switch has two settings, Normal and Star Wars, and when a visitor flips it to Star Wars the site reloads with yellow text, a starfield behind it and a blue lightsaber for a cursor. When a visitor holds F on the profile page, the introduction also becomes the yellow opening crawl of the films, receding into the distance, and nothing on the site ever mentions that key.