Micka

Introducing Fluid Functionalism, open source ui components where every hover, transition, and animation serves a purpose. Built on top of shadcn/ui and radix. One CLI command to install. Link ↓

@ben_issen 🪸❤️🪸

the age of designers

@joshpuckett @0xnichy That’s a shame. Agree, would love to hear more from you!

@0xnichy my spicy takes are better reserved for intimate gatherings haha

I'm hosting a private tour of the Matisse exhibit at SFMOMA on Tuesday, June 23rd. I hope it'll be an inspiring way to kick off Config week in San Francisco! Spots are limited; apply here: joshpuckett.me/sfmoma

@akinayoUI @base_ui @colmtuite Thanks man!

@micka_design @base_ui @colmtuite Love this

FluidFunctionalism.com now runs on Radix or @base_ui. your call. I build a page to show you what changes: nothing. And that's beautiful. 👋 @colmtuite

Thanks man! AskUserQuestions is not fully ready, still some fixes I want to make 🟡 Shadows work in light mode. In dark mode you need to lighten up the surface to make it stand out. Shadows are not enough. There are a few examples in my timeline where you can see these issues (Notion / Linear). Probably need to be a bit more exhaustive on the problem section. Lmk if that clarifies!

@micka_design @base_ui @colmtuite Love this! And the new AskUserQuestions component🔥. One of my favorite libraries! Was looking at the surfaces page, it looks very good... but I am confused about the point of "surfaces" vs "shadows" - can you clarify why layered components with shadows don't work for elevation?

@jasonsbmoc 👋🏻

hello — are you a freelance design engineer? web designer? motion designer? brand systems thinker? want to build cool brand tools, templates, and other fun things with me at Medium? if not, do you know someone that might? drop portfolio links below please

@JacobyBrandon thanks for the discovery! Great related video youtube.com/watch?v=FXVjZ8…

Deeply inspired by Étienne-Louis Boullée He believed that structures should emotionally embody their purpose “To make architecture speak, one must employ all the means capable of making it expressive.”

@Riyvir If you can bring some same.energy feeling to the algorithm and randomness every time you connect that would be lovely. Is it already available?

what's your ideal inspiration process? you know i love cosmos, are.na, and pinterest. but i have problems with all of them. pinterest has a great discovery algo. but it's tuned for engagement, so once it starts feeding you a certain type of image you end up in a spiral that's hard to escape. cosmos is great when culture-drive curation is the goal. but heavy curation has a cost: you end up seeing the same references everyone else does. are.na is a wild child. no notes on that. but as much as i love quirky human curation, i also love an algorithm that feels like it understands how i think. i've tried mymind and i respect their commitment to no collaboration but i need collaborative features since i think the real unlocks happen when you combine personal thought, collaborative though, and algorithmic discovery. so this is why i'm building memio. memio is a local-first, creative memory companion. i've been tuning a similarity algorithm that’s been really fun to use. it's looser than pinterest and cosmos, which means it surfaces unexpected connections instead of just showing you more of what you already clicked on. the goal is for it to feel like a little like human curation. here's where memio is going: multi-modal. right now it handles images. text, links, video, and audio are all in the works. cli, mcp, and all the other acronyms too. private by default. your library lives on your computer or in your own cloud storage. the core algorithm runs entirely on-device, so you can do a lot without ever hitting an external api. collaborative when you want. you'll be able to choose which boards you share with other people and llms and that will extend what you can do in the base version. capture whatever. find connections you couldn't find any other way. make cool shit. i'm building this for all of us so tell me what you want from a tool like this!

@hey__sakamoto Nice! Don’t hesitate if you want more components / systems pages

Thanks for sharing 👏

New newsletter article drop next week: We’re reviewing the wrong artifact: PRs show code. PRDs show intent. Neither shows behavior. open.substack.com/pub/micka/p/we…

@felipedotdesign @aave @alexvanderzon @jordanborth @lochieaxon Congrats man! 🙌

excited to share that i’m joining @aave to help shape the future of defi grateful for the opportunity to work with @alexvanderzon, @jordanborth, @lochieaxon, and team to new beginnings

@ijcarson So glad to hear! What would you like me to design next?

@micka_design My agent is refactoring all the components on my site to properly respect surfaces, rather than just the initial few i grabbed to try out. Excellent work my man!

Analytics review of fluidfunctionalism.com 3 months after the inception of the idea. - 19 components, 1 system page - 358 stars and 16 forks on Github - 9k visitors and 50k page view in the last 30 days

@ben_issen Big word for a small project!

@micka_design Stellar 🙇‍♂️

@bedesqui Hahaha wdym for iPad’s cursor?

@micka_design oh my god this feels like how everything should work scratches the itch of the ipad’s cursor 😭😭

@peduarte 20y anniversary + Gen AI playlist released a few months ago makes a lot of sense to me.

when i first saw spotify's new app icon, my immediate gut reaction was: wow that's pretty cool then some dude with a few thousand followers and said it sucked and in a blink of an eye everyone started hating on it i still think it's pretty cool

The 2 columns split can be distracting. Asking user to complete information on the left at first and then on the right and then back on the left is not ideal IMO. Chat should be primary where you can do everything. Right panel should be complementary / optional / delightful to the main flow.

Day 5: introducing agent birthing find me a better agent creation UX and I will buy you coffee

@buburdin Very cool

i guess it’s one of those days in san francisco.