I have recently was on the journey to learn react-native. And was starting to compare few rn ui kits. I haven't test tamagui so don't know how good it is regarding tech but some small things that turn me off:
- the landing page of tamagui is just throwing me off. Too much noise and pollution: too much colorful, too much gradients, colors changes when scrolling, too much animation, not consistent choice of fonts (good mixed with retro style). overall it feels like a big advertising banner screaming for my attention or old web 1.0 websites that abused animations and styles.
- they recently released paid one starter kit that I was about to buy. It's good that they provided many screenshots but please (message to anyone making such 'developer elevator pitch'/'test drive experience') provide both:
a) some online gallery app / kitchen sink that shows your product
b) the same app that I can just install with no fuss on mobile using expo go so that I can see how smooth it behaves on native devices (even better if there is demo app in appstore)
This is just maybe my OCD but (again message to some creators reading this and selling some dev tools). We developers even if we like your product still have to onboard other team members or even worse our supervisors who are design leaders. Make my work of 'selling' your product to supervisors smooth. If my eyes hurt even though I'm trying to be still understanding - my design lead supervisor eyes' will bleed and potentially kill any respect when sharing your product demo.
- the landing page of tamagui is just throwing me off. Too much noise and pollution: too much colorful, too much gradients, colors changes when scrolling, too much animation, not consistent choice of fonts (good mixed with retro style). overall it feels like a big advertising banner screaming for my attention or old web 1.0 websites that abused animations and styles.
- they recently released paid one starter kit that I was about to buy. It's good that they provided many screenshots but please (message to anyone making such 'developer elevator pitch'/'test drive experience') provide both:
a) some online gallery app / kitchen sink that shows your product
b) the same app that I can just install with no fuss on mobile using expo go so that I can see how smooth it behaves on native devices (even better if there is demo app in appstore)
This is just maybe my OCD but (again message to some creators reading this and selling some dev tools). We developers even if we like your product still have to onboard other team members or even worse our supervisors who are design leaders. Make my work of 'selling' your product to supervisors smooth. If my eyes hurt even though I'm trying to be still understanding - my design lead supervisor eyes' will bleed and potentially kill any respect when sharing your product demo.