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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 Garrett_Mack »

Hi everyone, I'm the creator of LiftKit. This project is EXTREMELY early and, as everyone has pointed out, not ready for production use. It's a solo project I work on in my free time. I'm a self-taught, so a lot of the weird choices you're seeing can be attributed to the decisions of someone who had never built something like this before.

LIFTKIT IS FREE AND OPEN SOURCE. The website's just out of date.

https://github.com/Chainlift/liftkit

Most of the feedback folks are providing here was raised about 6 months ago on Reddit and is actively being worked on. You can check it out here: https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1m41arx/i_spent_18_...

KNOWN ISSUES INCLUDE: - Docs are a nightmare, screenshots are ridiculous instead of real components - Components are inaccessible spaghetti

CURRENT PRIORITIES: - Rebuilding with radix primitives - Improving docs

TO LEARN MORE: - This youtube video explains the gist of the system (though it's also a little outdated) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1DANFZYJDw

I'll reply to folks as best I can.

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

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Post by jofzar »

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.

100 agree, I was like "this does look better" then realised I was saying it for the before in every example.

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

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Post by Garrett_Mack »

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…

Hey Tom, I'm the creator. They're actually even worse than what you're describing. On touchscreens, the handle slides up and down as you try to move it left or right. Horrible, isn't it? One of these days, I'll get around to fixing it. The only reason it hasn't been done yet is that, to be perfectly honest, you're the first one to give this feedback. So I appreciate it!

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

#35

Post by Garrett_Mack »

bobbylarrybobby wrote: post #29
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 agree, the x-axis labels are not helpful! Thankfully, the first example is “buttons with corrected icon spacing”, and the image on the right looks much better than the one on the left (a bigger difference in quality than in the other two examples), which is visible when the slider is on the left. Suggestion to devs: put the label “material-style” in the lower left of its image and “liftkit” in the lower right of it…

Thanks for the tip! That actually was the first idea but I didn't end up doing it, for some reason. Thanks for the suggestion.

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

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Post by learyjk »

The creator of this is a friend of mine and just gonna chime in that he’s a fantastic and talented dude. Nice surprise to see his project listed here! I think he’s working on something new called Liftkit Studio too I’m looking forward to.

He has a cool YouTube channel too. Check out “The Secret Science of Perfect Spacing”

https://youtu.be/9ElrcTtAxzA?si=kbAzQDGQSCCqymTO

Party on

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

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Post by Garrett_Mack »

cchance wrote: post #25
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...

If they showed the actual css, people could just ... copy it, and then how could they charge for the secret golden ratio code lol

The CSS is in the github repo here: https://github.com/Chainlift/liftkit

LiftKit's free forever to anyone. It's just early stages and bad.

The idea was that if a company wanted to hire us for direct support, we'd do that. But the problems are: [A] no enterprise in their right minds would use this thing in its current state and [B] "us" is me and I don't have time to do that anymore

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

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Post by Garrett_Mack »

slillibri wrote: post #15
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...

There is that, but I get the impression that you could hire an expert to help.

yeah it's hella pushy about that isn't it? really need to tone it down

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

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Post by Garrett_Mack »

digiown wrote: post #19
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...

And one that drops frames when I scroll through on Firefox.

lord, really? which one?

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

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Post by Garrett_Mack »

MomsAVoxell wrote: post #12
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…

Yeah the docs are like that because I didn't know React well enough to make my own docs and so I stuck with Webflow and realized very quickly I'd made a huge mistake. But I needed to get something out there to buy time while I figure out how to make grownup docs.
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