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20 · Ecosystem Index
Multiple discovery surfaces — featured / latest / by category / by people. The platform's value is emergence and browsing, not declaration.
- Heading: brief positioning paragraph; no display.
- Body: several horizontal rails or grids — each surfacing a different cut of the platform's content.
- Divider: rail-titled bands.
- Button: "See more →" at each rail's edge; rarely a global CTA.
- Image: thumbnails everywhere; the page is dense imagery.
- Reveal: none.
Reach for it for community platforms, content marketplaces, design-asset stores, any UGC/curated catalogue front page.
Avoid for single-product pages. Ecosystem needs multiple things to surface.
Reference: Are.na, Figma Community, Behance.
Sample opening lines (imitate the specificity — Ecosystem Index openings are surface labels, dated, with a count):
"Featured · Latest · By category." — three discovery surfaces named, divided "What's on this week · Editor's pick · The whole catalogue." — names cadence, curation, breadth "A toolkit for assembling new worlds from the scraps of the old." — are.na — second-position copy that breaks template