J'James 'Dante' Midziindantedecodes.hashnode.dev·4h ago · 4 min readThe Reason I Prefer Opinionated UI LibrariesUnopinionated is treated like a virtue in this industry. Headless, composable, "just primitives, you decide". It sounds like freedom. What it actually is, most of the time, is someone else declining t00
SSSampada Sharmaintechnologyposts.hashnode.dev·1d ago · 7 min readWhy Digital Experiences Fail When They Ignore ContextA customer opens an app to check an order. The company already knows what they bought, when they bought it, where it is, and that they contacted support about the same order yesterday. Yet the custome00
KSKalpick Sharmainkalpicksharma.hashnode.dev·2d ago · 6 min readAgentic UX: Designing Interfaces for Autonomous AI Decision-MakingMost interfaces are designed around one assumption: A human is operating the software. That assumption has shaped decades of UX patterns. Users click buttons, navigate screens, submit forms and review00
J'James 'Dante' Midziindantedecodes.hashnode.dev·Sep 2 · 3 min readWhy I Avoid shadcn/ui: Design Homogenisation & HypeI find it really funny how things become mainstream. Starts off as a tool to 'improve productivity'. Faster than you know it, it has become the de-facto for almost everything. I have found that same p00
Rryanbuildsinaidevstack.hashnode.dev·Aug 27 · 8 min readHow I Built a Polished App UI in 15 Minutes — Without Designing From ScratchBuilding a good app UI usually takes much longer than writing the actual code. You can have the backend ready, your API working, and your components planned out — and still spend hours trying to figur00
VPVed Pandeyinvedpandeydev.hashnode.dev·Aug 19 · 15 min readReact Hooks Masterclass: useState, useEffect, and Custom HooksLet's start with a question. How does React remember information between renders? Every time your component re-renders, the function runs again from top to bottom. So if you have a variable like let c10
DDozoinnawtch.hashnode.dev·Aug 17 · 4 min readI Built a Bowl Builder Tool for Nawtch, and the Save Button Was Harder Than It SoundsWanted a tool anyone could use to build a meal-prep style bowl or plate and get real calorie and macro numbers back, with weight adjustments in ounces or grams depending on what you actually use. If y00
ADAritra Dasinartclick.hashnode.dev·Aug 12 · 8 min readBuild an Animated Multi-Step Progress Tracker Using CSSMulti-step forms and checkout flows almost always need a progress tracker at the top — a row of steps that fills in as the user moves forward. Traditionally, that means adding or removing a .active / 00
RDRussel Dsouzainapplighter-blogs.hashnode.dev·Aug 6 · 3 min readWe Didn't Need Another React Native UI KitIf you've built more than one React Native app, you've probably experienced this. You start with a completely new idea. A fintech app. A social app. An AI product. A marketplace. The idea is different00
ADAritra Dasinartclick.hashnode.dev·Aug 5 · 6 min readBuild a Modern Chat UI with CSS and JavaScriptChat interfaces are everywhere now — support widgets, team tools, AI assistants, in-app messaging. They all share the same underlying patterns, and none of them actually require a framework or a compo00
