Element seems heavily inspired by Ant Design for React [1], which came out of Ant Financial/Alibaba. It's a project by Ele.me, a Chinese food delivery company.

Element seems heavily inspired by Ant Design for React [1], which came out of Ant Financial/Alibaba. It's a project by Ele.me, a Chinese food delivery company. Alibaba and Ant Financial invested $1.25B in it last year [2]. [1]https://ant.design/docs/react/introduce https://ant.design/docs/react/introduce [2]http://www.wsj.com/articles/alibaba-ant-financial-to-jointly-invest-1-25-billion-in-ele-me-1460545990 http://www.wsj.com/articles/alibaba-ant-financial-to-jointly...