A branded desktop where windows are the cast: dashboards, a deploy log, a chart. They pile up, spread out Exposé-style and genie into the dock, while the camera auto-zooms after the pointer. Acme Pulse is the small utility window that is always on top — and a coral thread ties the deploy to the drop across windows.
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Checkout funnel
Signups · daily
p95 latency
Error rate
Tab 38 of 38 — untitled note
How many dashboards did you check today?
1 · HOOK0:00–0:08
Windows cascade in from the top-left one per beat (y −40→0, scale .96→1, power3.out 0.3 s), each landing on the kick; the fifth, front-most note window arrives on bar 2 with the question typed into it.
Checkout funnel
Signups
p95 latency
Error rate
Deploy log
+32 more
UTILITYALWAYS ON TOP
Acme Pulse
2 · REVEAL0:08 (drop)
On the drop every window FLIPs from the pile into an Exposé grid (0.6 s expo.out, 0.04 s stagger, centre-out) and dims to 70 %; the teal-rimmed Pulse utility window drops into the gap from above and lands on the downbeat, the only window at full brightness.
Deploy log
09:38 #2230✓ live 09:41 #2231 checkout-v3 09:41 #2231✓ shipped 09:42 health 200 OK 09:44 …
Checkout conversion
ACME PULSE09:44
Checkout conversion −18%
since 09:42 · after deploy #2231
Roll backAcknowledge
3 · PROOF MOMENT0:12–0:32
The camera auto-zooms 1.8× onto the deploy log as #2231 highlights, then a coral thread draws left→right across windows to the drop (stroke-dashoffset 0.5 s, one beat); the Pulse utility window slides up from the bottom on the snare and the pointer's click ring pops on Roll back on the downbeat.
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4 · CTA0:36–0:45
The dashboard windows genie into the dock — each sliced into 12 strips that scaleX/skew toward it with a delay gradient (0.5 s, one per beat) — leaving one window; the Pulse icon lands in the dock with a bounce on the last downbeat.
COMPONENT KIT
Branded window chrome — warm title bars with a coral close dot; each window is an actor.
Pulse utility window — small, teal-rimmed, always on top: the agent.
Exposé spread — the overview beat: “you have 38 of these”.
Cross-window thread — coral bezier tying deploy #2231 to the drop.
Pointer + click ring — the human's decision, with auto-zoom following it.
Genie minimize + dock — closing the noise; Pulse is the one icon left running.
MOTION · MUSIC
Exposé spread — FLIP from stacked to grid, 0.6 s expo.out, 0.04 s stagger from the centre out, landing on the drop.
Auto-zoom follow — camera scales to 1.8× on each click and eases back, 0.7 s power2.inOut with light motion blur; clicks are on beats, zoom-outs on the “and”.
Genie — each window sliced into 12 strips, scaleX + skew toward the dock with a 0.02 s delay gradient; one window per beat.
WHY / RISK · ADAPT IT
Why: “too many windows” is the pain everyone recognises, and a single always-on-top utility is an instant picture of a quiet background agent. The cross-window thread shows the agent connecting sources a human would have to alt-tab between. Risk: copying a real OS too literally feels generic — keep the chrome branded and the wallpaper in your palette.
Adapt to your product: the windows become the tools your customers juggle today; your product is the one utility window that stays on top and the only icon left in the dock.
UTILITYALWAYS ON TOP