Open Source2026In Progress

FORGE.ui

An open-source component playground for building polished, opinionated UI components with a premium aesthetic.

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Open Source
Overview

FORGE.ui is an open-source component library designed around a simple principle: beautiful, production-ready UI components that developers can own completely. Rather than shipping a runtime dependency, FORGE.ui generates component files directly into your project - making everything visible, editable, and yours.

Challenge & Context

Most component libraries create invisible dependencies. Teams install a package, use it, and eventually discover that the library's decisions about API design, styling approach, or component behaviour conflict with their own. FORGE.ui was built to explore a different model: zero abstraction, full ownership, premium defaults.

Creative Direction

Every component is designed to a premium standard by default - with considered animation states, accessible colour systems, and typographic precision. The aesthetic is clean and editorial, designed to work across a wide range of product types without requiring visual overrides.

Build & Technology
Next.jsTypeScriptTailwind CSSOpen Source Architecture
Outcome & Recognition

An actively developed open source library within the FORGE ecosystem, accessible through the FORGE.labs platform.

Key Learnings
  • 01

    Ownership as a design principle changes how you think about APIs, dependencies, and defaults.

  • 02

    Open source work requires the same quality standards as client work - public code is also public portfolio.

  • 03

    Component libraries are design systems. Every token, every spacing value, every default state is a design decision.

Visual Records

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Let's work together

Have a project in mind?

I work with founders, small businesses and teams who need premium websites, product interfaces, design systems and frontend builds.

Also available on Contra for freelance engagements.