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Shivam
Shivam

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Stop micromanaging pixels | Build UI that understands where it lives.

Most modern UI workflows are still obsessed with primitives:

Button

Card

Modal

Sidebar

Then we duct-tape them together with padding, spacing, radius, colors , hoping it feels cohesive.

But here's the truth:
Good UI isn't built with components. It's built with intent.

You don’t just need a .
You need a “Confirm” button in a modal.
Or a “Back” button in a sidebar.
Or a “CTA” on a landing page.

These aren’t just variants, they are contextual semantics. And no amount of Tailwind classes or design tokens will magically encode that meaning.

I got tired of pixel micromanagement and meaningless abstraction.
So I built a tiny experiment:
👉 semantic-ui-forge.lovable.app

It’s not a product. It’s not even a library.
It’s a design system manifesto, expressed in code.

Think of it as:

A way to see how the same element behaves differently across contexts

A minimal testbed for semantic decisions (e.g. what should a sidebar button look like by default?)

A call to stop building dumb primitives and start encoding intent

If you're a frontend dev who's been feeling this but didn't know how to name it, check it out.

Let’s stop pushing pixels and start communicating purpose.

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