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TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool

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Re: TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool

#151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep, my fans started revving as soon as I loaded it. Animations are out of control on the normal web as it is, but genAI sites take it to another level.

That, too, though I'm sure that particular problem is mainly because of the textual animation in the background.

Yeah it was. I've been hoping to get the time to write a userscript to identify and stop animations like that, but I haven't been able to understand the whole requestAnimationFrame thing enough yet.

Re: TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool

#154
post #16

This is nonsensical, there is nothing textual about the UIs being shown here. It doesn't stop being a GUI if you have a 1:1 representation of the concept within character cells. The UX actually matters, and TUIs are generally built for effectiveness and power (lazygit being an excellent example). But once you start adding mouse clickable tabs, buttons, checkboxes etc. you left the UX for TUIs behind and applied the U…

Reddit moment!

Re: TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool

#156

Vibe-coded trash, even says so in the Readme. Not sure why this gets voted to the frontpage.

Better get ready for almost all software to use AI assistance in its creation. You can build great things using AI agents, and you can build trash. Your ideological opposition to that is not shared by as wide a percentage of developers as you may think based on some highly self selected online corners.

theres a difference between AI-assistance and vibe coding. One of them requires you to know what you're doing and make good design choices

Re: TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool

#159
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I really don't want my TUI's to look like GUI's rendered in low res. The appeal to me of a TUI is that it is built specifically to be a TUI, and that means eschewing complexity and detail , and favouring compact text.

> GUI's rendered in low res

That's literally what TUI's looked like starting from the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s... You have a pointing device, might as well make use of it to enhance discoverability.

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