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Another factor with UI is it's inherently about appearance and what's in fashion... bootstrap, material etc..

A single unifying framework can never dominate, because everyone wants a unique looking website

open-ui is not proposing to make components look the same, it's proposing the exact opposite: to make the common components customizable enough that each design system / UI toolkit can use them rather than rolling their own.

> it's proposing the exact opposite: to make the common components customizable enough that each design system / UI toolkit can use them rather than rolling their own.

Honestly, that just sounds like re-implementation with extra steps and an extra layer of wrapper/bridge nonsense. If I am going to completely redesign and customize the provided controls, I might as well roll my own. It would be way quicker and easy to maintain than a mountain of hacks on top of each other.

There is also no need for a central standard. My company just took an existing CSS framework (it doesn't matter which framework) and then slapped their own customization on top of it and then reused it in dozens of applications. Not much time was actually wasted on the design itself.

Fair enough, but I'm having trouble understanding the point of the abstraction. Open-UI sounds like it wants to be an overarching standard that all design systems should work to. So they can inter-operate. Which in my opinion is a flawed idea.

Like a button that supports thousand styles and carries megabytes of styles?

No, not like that. Why would it?

Bootstrap and material have made half of the web to look the same.

It's not a great thing.

I disagree, As an end user I want websites to all look and function the same - standards matter for usability so if half the web is using the same approach to me that is a very good thing.

> I want websites to all look and function the same

Really? That would be really terrible wouldn't it? Did you imagine that world? (Maybe I misunderstand you.)

Which currently existing website would you most want all websites to look and function like, if you had to choose?

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