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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 re-thc »

Garrett_Mack wrote: post #31

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 The website's just out of date.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…

> Rebuilding with radix primitives

Check out Base UI (or React Aria) instead.

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

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Post by jheriko »

Garrett_Mack wrote: post #63
stevage wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1.618 is complete nonsense that people hang on to because they want it to be true. It doesn't stack up, neither in ancient Greek times, nor in the renaissance, nor today. It's a dumb idea that needs to die.

but nautilus shells pretty

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

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Post by Garrett_Mack »

learyjk wrote: post #36

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

hi fren

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

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Post by redanddead »

gmurphy wrote: post #70

When we designed Chrome, since minimalism was our thing and screens used to be small, A LOT of time was spent on the total vertical space - thin titlebar, slightly bigger tabstrip, and a large toolbar. Lots of discussion, lots of questions Telling people the height ratios between them followed the golden ratio was a very convenient way to shortcut the bikeshedding and get to "aha, very nice" The trick was it didn't f…

maybe the golden ratio was the friends we made along the way

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

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Post by redanddead »

Garrett_Mack wrote: post #67
rablackburn wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi Garrett, I love the project -- even if I agree with a lot of the critique in this thread. Critique that is very high quality, professional feedback that you should take as a very big compliment. I think every Front End developer or designer dreams of this idea(+) at some point, but you're the madlad who actually did it. It feels like you've posted an implementation of everyone's baby and tugged at our heart-string…

Aw. Got me emotional over here. Thank you for the support! Definitely won't give up. And definitely do take the feedback as a compliment!

Yeah seriously, clearly seeing the heart that went into this

To the moon Macky boy!

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

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Post by Garrett_Mack »

re-thc wrote: post #81
Garrett_Mack wrote: post #31

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…

> Rebuilding with radix primitives Check out Base UI (or React Aria) instead.

Unfortunately I've already ported in all the radix primitives. I actually found out about Base literally the exact day I finished it. Then I saw shadcn just upgraded to Base. So it looks like shad once again proves the gary oak in the completely one-sided rivalry that lives entirely in my own head. except instead of Ash I'm like youngster joey with a copilot subscription

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

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Post by pjmlp »

chrismorgan wrote: post #76
gmurphy wrote: post #70

When we designed Chrome, since minimalism was our thing and screens used to be small, A LOT of time was spent on the total vertical space - thin titlebar, slightly bigger tabstrip, and a large toolbar. Lots of discussion, lots of questions Telling people the height ratios between them followed the golden ratio was a very convenient way to shortcut the bikeshedding and get to "aha, very nice" The trick was it didn't f…

Ah, explanations that are treated as justifications without actually justifying anything. “Vertical rhythm” in website layout. Utter nonsense. Valuable in print layout (for adjacent columns or double-sided paper), completely useless in digital (unless you have side-by-side columns with headings or pictures mixed in, but this is seldom seen outside print, partly because the web doesn’t support it well). “Modular scale…

You only have to watch the WWDC videos from the designers regarding Liquid Glass, and appreciate how much "improved" the macOS with Tahoe experience feels like in practice.

Same applies to sessions on Fluent or Material designs, and how they end up on the respective OSes.

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

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Post by Garrett_Mack »

esperent wrote: post #77
Garrett_Mack wrote: post #31

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…

For the ui comparisons, making the shadcn/materialui elements darker/low contrast is highly dishonest. Compare like with like, not a badly colored and low contrast version of the competition against yours.

But my versions are the lower contrast ones.

edit: wait are you on light mode or dark mode? I work in light mode where mine are lower contrast but i swapped to dark and now it's reversed.

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