Comment by jauntywundrkind
1 hour ago
These new experiences are built atop layers and layers of bedrock libraries that we, generally, don't reinvent. Or we reinvent one or two.
What's notable to me is that ux doesn't so far generally have this behavior. That as per this post people just build a new app, a new experience.
I want to believe over time we'll have better composable & malleable ux experiences atop broader platforms for us. That over time the "go it alone" path has other worth ways to innovate that use a more substantial shared base. It's dangerous to go it alone, and doing so equipped with just our wooden sword and some courage and perhaps an LLM wisp is an amazing adventure, but I think the survival rate & impact would be much better if we had more general ux systems that supported better innovation atop them, and if less people did the pure "why not build your own" path.
I understand you take. And I definitely agree that we could use a lot better ux tools than we have right now. Maybe one of these prototypes will lead to that though. I'll look at it more as creative engineering. Not everything is meant to be distributed or consumed. But that doesn't mean that it's not worthwhile to try and prototype different flows and options. I have seen hundreds of harnesses, I've only used a couple-- but they've inspired me to build something that fits me better and works for me. If somebody comes out with something that helps unify the UX experience and provides better building blocks for me to work with, I'll definitely switch to that and rebuild my experience on top of that. But for now this is what we have. Admittedly this reflects my level of experience and my expertise too. I don't have a lot of experience working with building UX frameworks, so I adapt what I can.
People are using the UX systems though, just that it's the agent that is gluing them together now. Under the hood, it's still React plus component libraries like shadcn, lucide, tailwind, axios and so on.
The agents are so good at this, there's literally no point in not doing it that way.