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If I were younger I would love this. nowadays I spend most of the time tweaking websites to remove this stuff using local stylesheets...or using dark + read mode... how times have changed.

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I like the fact that it gives animated feedback to emphasize what is happening/being altered. Native components don't always do that very well. Animations are not just artsy fluff, they have real UX value (if done right, of course).

I don't know. At the point in which you have to reinforce visual context with animations, I feel like you've already failed at the part of UX that actually matters. Like there's already been a cascade of structural failure, and now you're trying to put bandaids over it.

The animations, in this case, are not helpful. They distract from what you're trying to do. And components that don't give feedback are bad. It's trivial to have different color palettes for over, click, release, etc.

Honestly same, I was less interested in the styling and just interested in the immediacy of response which is ironically missing in a lot of modern ui

I think the trick to using libraries like this is to not go all in on them. Applying these effects to every element would be garish.

But for a single like button, an effect slider, or magic search bar? It would be be a lovely touch.

I flip back and forth every year or so between wanting more fun in my software, and wanting it to get the hell out of my way.

"There's a time and place for everything, but not now!"

I think now that llms make it super easy to add anything that its important not to add everything.

I have enabled "reduced motion", so this site doesnt work for me.

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