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Magic UI: UI Library for Design Engineers

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Re: Magic UI: UI Library for Design Engineers

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Post by verse »

rmdashrfv wrote: post #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 ori…

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

that's definitely why I got into it years ago, but it seems like it has lost it's meaning and been simplified into "engineer that likes design" or "engineer that wants to be good at design"

Re: Magic UI: UI Library for Design Engineers

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Post by Alifatisk »

troupo wrote: post #46
Alifatisk wrote: post #43

Love the design, I don’t know if Vercel (Zeit) pioneered this or if they even took inspiration themselves but it’s beautiful and minimal. The rendering has some issues though.

> it’s beautiful and minimal. What's minimal about it? Washed out colors, everything white, and grey font do not make something minimal. Come on, even the too lines in their call out slide in with unnecessary animations. Everything on the page is moving, bouncing, animating. If it's .minimalism, it's Michael Bay of minimalisms

The simple layout with barely anything to look at except black and white text and a couple of figures is what I’ve been calling minimalism? But you’re right, it doesn’t actually qualify for the definition of minimalism, Idk what to call this type of design, but I enjoy these a lot!

Re: Magic UI: UI Library for Design Engineers

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Post by rmdashrfv »

verse wrote: post #101
rmdashrfv wrote: post #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 ori…

> isn't the point of design engineering to be capable of coming up with relatively original and innovative UI? that's definitely why I got into it years ago, but it seems like it has lost it's meaning and been simplified into "engineer that likes design" or "engineer that wants to be good at design"

It definitely is sad to see people not want to deviate even a little bit. I've seen at least 3 instances on Twitter where someone launched a product and they had the same landing page as another popular app even where certain components don't make sense.

A classic example is the rotating globe that you can click and drag. That was usually meant for showing sales happening across the world, but now people are just throwing it in a card with the header: "Innovative new features".

Like there's just no thought put into anything and what bothers me is how popular low-effort is becoming in tech. Startling.

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