April 20th, 2025
This week at 120.dev, we focused on improving text styling and refining the new conversation experience in the 120 AI Chat app. These enhancements, while subtle, contribute meaningfully to both visual clarity and interaction within the native application.
We updated the new conversation screen in 120 AI Chat to offer a more streamlined experience. A new prompt, What can I help with?, now guides users to initiate conversations with clear intent. The redesigned interface provides organized access to essential features such as model selection, quick prompts, configurable settings, web search toggle, file attachments, and voice input.
Each element has been thoughtfully arranged to ensure everything is accessible and configurable before starting a conversation, resulting in a more intuitive and focused workflow.
We introduced a smooth animation that shifts the conversation input from the center of the screen to the bottom of the chat window when a new conversation begins. This visual transition provides users with a clear indication of the interface state change.
The animation enhances both usability and presentation, reinforcing the shift from initiating to continuing a conversation.
We implemented advanced color styling for text components across the app. This provides greater control over typography while maintaining consistency and legibility in all contexts.
These improvements enable more effective syntax highlighting in code blocks, helping users distinguish variables, functions, and keywords more easily. Whether displaying AI-generated responses or technical content, the updated text styling improves scannability and clarity.
Text elements can now be styled with backgrounds, improving contrast and emphasis across the interface. This feature is especially useful for highlighting key content or drawing attention to specific elements within larger sections of text.
To maintain performance in text-heavy interfaces, we optimized background rendering using a line-based method, which reduces the number of GPU-rendered fragments compared to character-level processing.
This approach also lays the groundwork for more advanced enhancements within code blocks and structured content areas.
We also support using text color and background styling together. This allows for a broader range of visual expression, from subtle emphasis to high-contrast highlights, while preserving readability and accessibility.
Next, we’re expanding our component library with additional text styling options and a customizable Checkbox component that includes various sizes, variants, and color themes. We're also developing a settings window with a sidebar layout, designed to support future mobile adaptations and ensure scalability through scrollable content regions.
Thank you for following our progress. More updates are coming soon as we continue improving the experience across 120.dev.