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The Best Design Post 2016

Design — ui, ux, uidesign, uxdesign, deisgn [Productivity, User Experience, Analytics]
Designest. 2016
→ Redirected
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 24, 2026
Pulse 16.0 · 1/4
16.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
18
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
3
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

The recorded URL now redirects offsite — often an acquisition, rebrand, or wind-down; the destination is recorded in the telemetry below. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days. Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
18 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 24, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 18 probesavg response 2265 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
mockplus.com
edge
direct origin
server
not reported
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

The Best Design Post 2016's listed URL redirected off its original domain (to https://www.mockplus.com/blog/post/best-of-the-best-2016-top-13-uiux-design-posts-for-reference/?utm_source=promote&utm_medium=click&utm_campaign=grace) when we last probed it on Aug 24, 2026 — we mark it redirected, not dead. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 3 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
UI Tips for Web Design Enthusiastsdesignsimilar100%16.00.0→ redirected
Shravan Portfoliodesignsimilar100%40.00.0● live
UX Recipedesignsimilar100%40.0+32.0● live
UX Databasedesignsimilar100%0.0-40.0■ inactive
Material Palettedesignsimilar100%45.80.0● live
Free UX Portfolio Templatedesignsimilar100%16.0+8.0→ redirected
Ecommerce UX Hints & Tipsdesignsimilar100%40.00.0— unverified
Bestfolios 2.0designsimilar100%1.7-40.0■ inactive

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelunknown
Liveness tierunknown
Competitive alternativesnone linked
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-24 14:13Z200goo.gl → mockplus.com1101redirected_offsite
2026-08-17 13:53Z200goo.gl → mockplus.com1894redirected_offsite
2026-08-10 00:18Z200goo.gl → mockplus.com2286redirected_offsite
2026-08-08 04:53Z200goo.gl → mockplus.com2189redirected_offsite
2026-07-31 15:51Z200goo.gl → mockplus.com2460redirected_offsite
2026-07-26 17:45Z200goo.gl → mockplus.com2124redirected_offsite
2026-07-18 14:28Z200goo.gl → mockplus.com4148redirected_offsite
2026-07-14 09:19Z200goo.gl → mockplus.com2126redirected_offsite
2026-07-04 16:23Z200goo.gl → mockplus.com1784redirected_offsite
2026-07-03 01:02Z200goo.gl → mockplus.com2817redirected_offsite
2026-06-24 13:59Z200goo.gl → mockplus.com2234redirected_offsite
2026-06-23 13:09Z200goo.gl → mockplus.com2099redirected_offsite
2026-06-21 21:28Z200goo.gl → mockplus.com2530redirected_offsite
2026-06-20 19:34Z200goo.gl → mockplus.com1919redirected_offsite
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · The Best Design Post 2016 · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/the-best-design-post-2016 · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.