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Magic UI: UI Library for Design Engineers

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Re: Magic UI: UI Library for Design Engineers

#81
I very much dislike the tweet that OP uses on the Magic UI site that's directed at Linear:

"Companies spend $30,000 and several weeks to get designs like this"

Yes. Because being a first or early mover is expensive. You commoditizing their style after they've put in all the brain work to create or build it isn't the same thing.

Also, isn't the point of design engineering to be capable of coming up with relatively original and innovative UI?

Re: Magic UI: UI Library for Design Engineers

#86

I very much dislike the tweet that OP uses on the Magic UI site that's directed at Linear: "Companies spend $30,000 and several weeks to get designs like this" Yes. Because being a first or early mover is expensive. You commoditizing their style after they've put in all the brain work to create or build it isn't the same thing. Also, isn't the point of design engineering to be capable of coming up with relatively ori…

Wow, honestly, I never visited Linear landing but after doing so I see how they copied a lot of ideas / components from them.

Re: Magic UI: UI Library for Design Engineers

#88
Some of these are very nice and not simple for most people to implement (animated button border, for example). But some others are so trivial I wonder why they bothered. For example Linear Gradient: https://magicui.design/docs/components/linear-gradient

It's just passing JS properties to the `linear-gradient()` css function which is already well documented on MDN. I can't see what value Magic UI is providing there ... https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/gradient/li...

Re: Magic UI: UI Library for Design Engineers

#89
post #57

It saddens me nobody builds similar libraries for Angular.

Yeah, for better or worse, the era of framework diversity is over. The industry has almost 100% converged on React.

That sounds false to me. When was this era and what exactly did it look like? React has been dominant for around a decade, but Angular and Vue still see wide usage and Svelte is somewhat on the rise. (Although retention/interest in Angular has been going down.)[1]

Highly anticipating State of JS 2023 data though...

[1] https://2022.stateofjs.com/en-US/libraries/front-end-framewo...

Re: Magic UI: UI Library for Design Engineers

#90
post #86

I very much dislike the tweet that OP uses on the Magic UI site that's directed at Linear: "Companies spend $30,000 and several weeks to get designs like this" Yes. Because being a first or early mover is expensive. You commoditizing their style after they've put in all the brain work to create or build it isn't the same thing. Also, isn't the point of design engineering to be capable of coming up with relatively ori…

Wow, honestly, I never visited Linear landing but after doing so I see how they copied a lot of ideas / components from them.

https://www.linears.art/
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