# Family Values

Essay by Benji Taylor (https://benji.org)

What makes Family, Family.

Topics: Craft
Source: https://benji.org/family-values

## For agents

Nothing to install. This is a reference: cite it, or fetch the source when
the reasoning matters.

Read it at: https://benji.org/family-values

The full text is not reproduced here. It belongs to its author. What is
above is the author's own summary and the topics it covers.

Skills in this library that act on the same ground:

- emil-design-eng (https://www.stackskills.dev/md/emil-design-eng): The design-engineering house style behind Sonner and Vaul.
- prototype (https://www.stackskills.dev/md/prototype): Builds several genuinely different UI variants behind a live picker.
- apple-design (https://www.stackskills.dev/md/apple-design): Apple's interface and motion principles, translated for the web.
- better-ui (https://www.stackskills.dev/md/better-ui): Concentric radius, optical alignment, surface depth, hit areas.
- better-interface (https://www.stackskills.dev/md/better-interface): Every better-* skill as a single review pass.

## The short version

Family is a self-custody iOS wallet whose components people keep recreating, which is what prompted Benji to write down the sensibility behind them. This is not a tutorial and there is no animation code in it. The team settled on three principles: simplicity, fluidity and delight. Simplicity means the fundamentals are at hand and everything else appears when it becomes relevant, which matters most in flows like onboarding where the paths multiply. Fluidity keeps the experience continuous and delight builds a connection. Taken together they are a way of respecting the user's time and intelligence.

## Verification

- Source link: Resolved (HTTP 200) (pass)
- Reading copy: Plain markdown for agents at /md/family-values (pass)
- Attribution: Credited to Benji Taylor (pass)

Full page: https://www.stackskills.dev/library/family-values