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LiftKit – UI where "everything derives from the golden ratio"

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Re: LiftKit – UI where "everything derives from the golden ratio"

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Post by lelandfe »

khimaros wrote: post #7
moonlighter wrote: post #3

I tried to find pricing for it (the top "contact sales" is a no-starter; too much initial friction. Just tell me how much it costs?! At the footer is a pricing calculator... I asked for pricing for 10 top-level pages and 5 sub-level pages (they explain the difference)... came out to a whopping $16,500 (you're reading that right... SIXTEEN THOUSAND). No thanks.

this seems to be for custom design services. IANAL but the libraries and design language seems to be open source and free to use.

Indeed; if you look at the top nav this is a site that's an agency first and a design system second.

This design system really deserves its own site.

Re: LiftKit – UI where "everything derives from the golden ratio"

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Post by MomsAVoxell »

nickradford wrote: post #9

I wouldn't trust a UI framework where all of the components are shown as images instead of instances of the actual UI framework...

Yes, I too felt that way as I began to read, it was an immediate disappointment, kind of, that the UI wasn’t on full display, front and center.

I wouldn’t trust a framework that requires me to involve myself with JavaScript, nextJS, and React, also… but I am generally of the opinion that a framework pitching itself as a UI kit, must pretty much not be a plugin for a web browser…

Re: LiftKit – UI where "everything derives from the golden ratio"

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Post by tom_ »

Here's a tip: any time you've got before/after screen grabs, don't do this thing where you've got to drag a line to switch between the two, don't have a fade, don't have a sliding transition, or anything like that. Just have it display one, then have a single button that you click to have it immediately display the other. Then when you click the button again, it goes back to displaying the first one again. Click, click, click - and your eyes do all the work for you.

(Not unrelated: answer from Andrei Herasimchuk at https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Adobe-Photoshop-differentiate...)

Also: I can't work out which image is which. Taking the first image as an example: we've got MATERIAL-STYLE on the left, and LIFTKIT on the right. But what's the left? Does this mean that when you drag the line to the right, revealing the left image, you're looking at MATERIAL-STYLE? Or does this mean you see MATERIAL-STYLE when you drag the line to the left?

(This might seem like pointless quibbling, but this thing bills itself as the The UI Framework for Perfectionists.)

Re: LiftKit – UI where "everything derives from the golden ratio"

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Post by accoil »

tom_ wrote: post #16

Here's a tip: any time you've got before/after screen grabs, don't do this thing where you've got to drag a line to switch between the two, don't have a fade, don't have a sliding transition, or anything like that. Just have it display one, then have a single button that you click to have it immediately display the other. Then when you click the button again, it goes back to displaying the first one again. Click, cli…

I've been wondering that myself. The descriptions seem to indicate that fully dragged to the left is liftkit, but my first assumption was that would be fully dragged to the right.

Re: LiftKit – UI where "everything derives from the golden ratio"

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Post by danielvaughn »

candiddevmike wrote: post #5

I thought this was an unhinged parody of a design site, kinda surprised it's a real thing. Unfortunately the design isn't for me, things look off center and the overall "weight" of components feels off.

I hate to pile on since it's already getting some criticism, but I agree. It's kind of a good example why designers don't purely rely on mathematically consistent designs. Getting things to "look right" often means shifting pixels here and there ever so slightly, so that the math is a bit off but it feels better on the eyes.
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