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Setting aside the slowness, tho I am not a designer, these all strike me as just visual noise. I think animated borders, animated shiny text, animated meteor ba
by abeppu 2y ago
Setting aside the slowness, tho I am not a designer, these all strike me as just visual noise. I think animated borders, animated shiny text, animated meteor backgrounds today are no better than an early 2000s page with animated elements. It doesn't help communicate, it just attracts the eye until one learns to tune it out. And it kinda tells me that we're not really learning to build better stuff over the decades.
What is the difference between the animated Border Beam in this library and the animated hr in the vintage example of an archived geocities page?
https://magicui.design/docs/components/border-beam https://magicui.design/docs/components/border-beam
https://blog.geocities.institute/archives/3879 https://blog.geocities.institute/archives/3879
- dvaun 2y agoIf this were splashed across technical docs then I’d agree. That said, we’re not the target audience for this aesthetic.
- thomascgalvin 2y agoI agree that a lot of these components are more distracting than useful. I do like the animated border around buttons, though; that would be very useful to draw the eye towards the "default" option on a page, as long as it was the only one.
- cchance 2y agoThis is the thing many of these shouldn't be used just willy nilly, things like the chaser around the border of a container, is awesome as a notification of a change for instance, or the button effect same thing, i'd hate a site that used these nonstop running, but something thats triggered by an event happening is much nicer. That said, WTF is with all these "libraries" thats basically just collections of shit from codepen stacked in 1 place that they thought was cool, shit most of these don't even have cohesion from one to the other really besides... "cool motion"