Expressed vs sensory-ui

We stripped away the whiteboard bloat and built the few tools people actually use.

sensory-ui swaps standard shadcn/ui parts for versions that play short synthesized cues on clicks, toggles and dialogs, with no audio files to ship.

About Expressed

We stripped away the whiteboard bloat and built the few tools people actually use. Expressed runs on your side; you share your screen, everyone can participate. Expressed is here for Windows 11 today, and coming to Mac next. I'll get you live and we'll turn what happens into the story. Voice alone couldn't point at a hidden VS Code icon, so John drew on Carlos's live desktop until the next click was obvious.

About sensory-ui

sensory-ui is a React and Next.js component set that adds audio cues to familiar shadcn/ui elements such as buttons, switches, sliders, tabs, toasts and dialogs. Developers install components through the shadcn CLI and turn sound on with a prop. All audio is synthesized in the browser with the Web Audio API, so there are no sound files or network requests, and the library weighs about 28 KB gzipped. It ships 24 components, 17 cues and nine sound packs. The design guidance ties each sound to a meaningful interaction, keeps small actions quiet, honours reduced motion settings and allows muting globally or by category. The project now sits under Shadcn Labs.