I wanted to improve upon our profile menu at Tato. When I joined, it was a standard shadcn/ui dropdown, the one that ships with the sidebar component. While the original dropdown did its job, I wanted to build something with a bit more flair. Inspired by liquid glass's shifting forms, I wanted to create something that felt fluid and part of a single morphing surface.
I've also been using Base UI (opens in new tab) more frequently over Radix, and I've been loving the interface and the DX improvements the creators have made. In particular, I really love the
render function (opens in new tab) which provides easy access to properties and state of the component.