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gooey.jakubantalik.com

Liquid Gooey

Liquid UI effects for React.

beautifului.dev

Beautiful UI

A small library of extremely crafted, copy-paste components for chat agents, thinking states, human-in-the-loop approvals, and everything agents need.

yeseniaperezcruz.substack.com

The plateau of sad gray icons

Everyone wants to teach AI agents good taste. I just want them to stop filling every surface with icons in soft gray containers.

hudsandguis.com

Jurassic World Rebirth UI

A collection of interfaces that help sell the plausibility of this fictional world.

rauno.me

Rauno Freiberg's field note #2

How grid density, context menus, and custom widgets alter information architecture.

karlkoch.me

On layout choreography

Layout animation keeps spatial memory intact when lists reorder, panels expand, and items enter or leave.

parakeet.co

The shape of apps

How mandating rounded square app icons is downright heartbreaking to long-time Mac OS X users.

loading-ui.com

Loading UI

Free and open source CSS and React loaders, spinners, and animations to create polished, accessible loading states for modern web apps.

namethatui.com

What is this UI element called?

See the UI element, learn its real name and API symbol, and copy a precise prompt for your coding agent.

weblog.rogueamoeba.com

Free the icons

Apple should end their prohibition on shapes in MacOS app icons.

dotmatrix.zzzzshawn.cloud

Dot Matrix

A React component library of dot matrix loaders—expressive loading primitives you install via the shadcn registry and own as local code.

rexa-developer.github.io

tiks

Procedural UI sounds. Zero audio files. Pure synthesis.

blog.jim-nielsen.com

Consistency, but in excellence not appearance

How strict visual systems prioritize automated rules over contextual quality.

extend.ai

Extend UI

Open source UI kit for modern document apps. React components for PDF, DOCX, XLSX, and CSV viewers, file upload, e-signing, and more.

boneyard.vercel.app

Boneyard: skeleton screens for your UI

Pixel-perfect skeleton loading screens auto-extracted from your real DOM. Zero configuration, zero layout shift.

aave.com

Building glass for the web

How we built a cross-browser glass effect for the web, and how it shapes a family of components.

ui-skills.com

UI skills for design engineers

Discover curated UI Skills for design engineers, including accessibility, motion, frontend craft, and interface quality guides.

vorpus.github.io

performative-ui

Components that signal how oversubscribed your funding round is.

poyo.co

Two LLM UI patterns that aren’t chat

Structures that manage context and data retrieval more effectively for complex, non-linear tasks.

blog.mozilla.ai

The interface is no longer the product

The deck, doc, or dashboard becomes the output, not the source of truth.