Build a bounded dataset of award-gallery references or direct URLs, including design signals and optional measured quality evidence.
Where: Flowgen → Add → Research & Insights → Website Inspiration
Key ideas
- Curated discovery: Search Awwwards, CSS Design Awards, SiteInspire, Godly, and One Page Love from one brief; each reference keeps its gallery provenance.
- Direct URL mode: Wire URLs into Direct URLs to inspect known competitors or references. Clear the source chips when the run should use only those URLs.
- Design plus quality evidence: The collector can extract titles, content, imagery, palettes, and fonts, then attach mobile or desktop PageSpeed scores, Core Web Vitals, and optimization opportunities.
- Website Inspiration card: WebsiteHarvestNode uses the generic shared-card path. Collect a bounded set of curated gallery references or direct URLs with design signals and optional PageSpeed evidence.
- Properties sidebar: researchNodes.tsx
- Opened surfaces: Website thumbnail grid; structured result preview
Steps
- Describe the project, audience, aesthetic, or site category in the brief.
- Choose only the galleries that fit the assignment, set a small number of references per source, and optionally wire direct URLs.
- Leave page scraping on when the live site—not just its gallery card—should inform the work. Turn measured quality on when performance, accessibility, SEO, or implementation decisions matter.
- Run, inspect the visual grid and provenance, then connect Dataset to Website Audit or another research node.
Website Inspiration controls and presets
- Add path: Flowgen → Add → Research & Insights → Website Inspiration.
- Card: WebsiteHarvestNode.
- Properties: researchNodes.tsx.
- Controls: Design brief; Awwwards/CSSDA/SiteInspire/Godly/One Page Love; direct URLs; references per source; page content; mobile/desktop performance; save dataset.
- Opened surfaces: Website thumbnail grid; structured result preview.
Tips
- Start with one to three results per source; broaden only after the brief is returning relevant work.
- Use award-gallery status as creative curation, not proof of accessibility, speed, or conversion quality.
Limitations and important notes
- Gallery availability, outbound links, and public PageSpeed data vary by site; unavailable evidence is reported without discarding the rest of the collection.
- A direct URL is labeled separately and is not represented as an award winner.
Troubleshooting
A gallery reference has no live-site audit
Open the reference to confirm the gallery still exposes a live-site link, or wire the live URL directly and rerun.