Lovely. These React components are the new spam mail.
Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes
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#162The funny thing is, the techniques shown here are the ones that were once considered something only advanced front-end developers or publishers could do. Seeing that a former symbol of skill has now become a subject of satire makes me think that what we call 'high-level' ultimately comes from what others can't do. I personally never even thought about how to implement ASCII art animation.
Such is everything: at first, painstakingly crafted; later, mass produced.
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#163I love how this is both hilarious and extremely well made. Great job! And I'm gonna be honest, I kind of want to use a few of these components for real (the ASCII art is fantastic).
Agreed. I am impressed by both the satire of this, and the very high-quality implementation. It is so well executed, that it is hard to laugh at the absurdity of the lemmings-like patterns modern AI start-ups have fallen into.
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#164Great work! It sounds to me like something a startup would use to vibe code a UI.
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#165I've worked on several projects where people looked at the site, which was simple and straight to the point, and people would straight up tell me they didn't take it seriously because it didn't have these performative UI things on it. It's like when a Youtuber's audience complains about how they're constantly asking you to subscribe. The reason it happens is because the statistics say it works.
It really comes down to first impression. Your website design is your company’s first impression. If the design is clean, people will believe the product is clean and robust as well. Similar to how people think things that cost more and probably high quality and better overall. As for this website, the best component is the ASCII animation in the hero and you can’t even copy that component. In fact, that nice ASCII h…
Also on the HN homepage: https://cognition.ai/blog/frontier-code Not quite ASCII but pretty close!
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#166Well done. I don't know what others say, I liked it being a non UX person.
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#167The purple colors look very sloppy, pls not the purplish tint
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#168Needs more WebGL spinning rubik's cube
Well...what about a as well? For gramps.
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#169I like the concept. It would indeed be good to have a modern component library with AI design tropes as I think the old components libs haven't caught up. But in this particular case I must say, a lot of the components here just look plain ugly.
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#170I've worked on several projects where people looked at the site, which was simple and straight to the point, and people would straight up tell me they didn't take it seriously because it didn't have these performative UI things on it. It's like when a Youtuber's audience complains about how they're constantly asking you to subscribe. The reason it happens is because the statistics say it works.
My colleague vibe coded a website that looks exactly like this one. Everyone on the meeting loved it - they thought it was cool. These were IT people.