An introduction to Prototyper UI

Prototyper UI is an open source library of beautiful and accessible React components. Prototyper UI is based on React Aria Components and the components are styled with Tailwind CSS. The Prototyper UI theme variables are fully compatible with existing shadcn/ui themes.

Design Philosophy

Prototyper UI focuses on natural and dimensional principles:

1. Dimensionality - Use of subtle shadows, layering, and depth to create hierarchy, moving away from purely flat UI.

2. Textures - Components use textures based on light without falling into skeuomorphic extremes.

3. Intuitive - Components provide clear visual feedback, making human-computer interactions feel more natural and playful.

4. Helpful Color & Light - Use color and lighting, intentionally, to create depth and guide the user's attention, inspired by how we perceive objects in the real world.

5. Accessible Design - Use React Aria so that your components are accessible.

Using Prototyper UI

Components can be copied and pasted directly into your projects. You can view it as a beginning for your UI library. It is not a UI library that you install using NPM. The advantage of this structure is that you build precisely what you need.

Specs

• Uses React Aria Components for accessibility
• Styled using Tailwind CSS
• Fully compatible with existing shadcn/ui components and themes

Why use React Aria Components?

That's a good question. We've listed the main reasons below:

1. It provides great unstyled, accessible React components out of the box.
2. It offers better support for mobile screen readers compared to other libraries.
3. React Aria comes with extensive documentation.

If you want to learn more about React Aria Components, read their documentation.

Getting started

To use Prototyper UI in your project, you'll need to set up Tailwind CSS. Follow the shadcn/ui installation guide to configure your Tailwind setup correctly.

Once you have Tailwind configured, you can start copying and pasting Prototyper UI components into your project and customizing them to fit your needs.