UI Builds Itself Piece by Piece — effect skill for UI walkthroughs

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Grey skeleton blocks pulse once, then real cards, charts and text fill in with a stagger.

What it does

Built on Skeleton Reveal by HeyGen (HyperFrames), Apache-2.0. The write-up and recipes below are varg's.

Layout appears as soft placeholders, then each block cross-fades to real content top-left to bottom-right.

When: Show that a product generates or loads something (AI output, a report, a dashboard).

Watch out: Do not stagger 30 tiny elements individually; group into 4–8 blocks.

Timing: Skeleton pulse 0.6 s, then blocks 0.3 s each, 60–100 ms stagger.

Also called: skeleton to content, UI build-up, staggered UI

In HyperFrames

npx hyperframes add skeleton-reveal
npx hyperframes add stagger-lattice

Use stagger:{each:0.08,from:"start",grid:"auto"} on the block elements.

In Remotion

// npx shadcn@latest add @remocn/skeleton
const loaded = frame > 20 + i*3;

In CapCut

Two versions of the screenshot (blank wireframe and final); cross-fade with Mask → Linear keyframed diagonally.

Ready-made components

Where this comes from

Use when

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Install

Example output

https://s3.varg.ai/how-to/previews/7e416a75a48d/take-ui-builds-itself.mp4 — The Skeleton Reveal component used as its header comment describes, with demo copy (credit: Rendered by varg · HyperFrames Skeleton Reveal, https://hyperframes.heygen.com/catalog/components/skeleton-reveal)

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