- Barely There UI
- A hyper-minimalist visual style characterized by extreme white space, single font families, stripped palettes, and abundant data graphs — associated with AI company branding from OpenAI and Perplexity onward.
- Wabi-sabi
- A Japanese aesthetic philosophy centered on finding beauty in imperfection and incompleteness, applied in web design through hand-drawn elements, unpolished photos, and organic textures.
- Anti UX
- A design stance that intentionally introduces non-intuitive or unconventional interface elements as a creative statement against the obsession with frictionless usability.
- WebGL
- A web technology that renders 3D graphics and interactive visuals in a browser without plugins — previously requiring specialist JavaScript developers, now approximated by tools like Spline and Rive.
- Spline
- A browser-based 3D design tool that lets non-developers create interactive and animated 3D objects embeddable in websites.
- Unicorn Studio
- A no-code tool for creating WebGL-style animated visual effects for websites without writing shader or JavaScript code.
- Rive
- An animation tool for creating interactive, state-machine-driven animations that run in browsers and apps without heavy JavaScript.
- Monospace
- A typeface category where every character occupies the same horizontal width, historically used in coding terminals and instruction manuals — now deployed decoratively to signal technical credibility.
- Tech bro gradient
- An informal name for the purple-to-blue-to-teal soft gradient with optional neon glow that has become the default visual identity for SaaS products, AI startups, and developer tools.