Mission

(~30 years)

Our mission is to enable developers, of any level, to build UIs that feel amazing and to build faster.

Why

At MUI, we are builders at heart, we love the craft. We believe UI interfaces are of critical importance to people. More precisely:

• Quality of UX. We see the quality of the interfaces as increasingly becoming a differentiator for businesses.
• Price. We see the demand for developers to be very elastic, meaning a price decrease in the cost for businesses to build UI should lead to a massive increase in demand.
  • Speed to build. We see developers who will always want to get their job done faster, from creating basic websites to complex applications. We see the pace at which businesses need to digitalize & automate processes increase. Frontend is an opportunity for businesses to differentiate.
  • Skill barrier to build. There are 30 million developers worldwide and 1B knowledge workers. We want to empower more business workers to build e.g. the rise of personal software with AI slashing costs by orders of magnitude.

We are frustrated with the current pace of progress, we don't accept the status quo. We feel that we have to push boundaries where no one else is.

At a personal level, our CEO @Olivier Tassinari quickly gets frustrated when the interface of a service he uses is poorly executed, especially when there are avoidable friction points. He gets a lot of satisfaction in helping deliver better product experiences for end-users, in the hope that the next time he uses that service, he will have a great product experience. Working on MUI is about going after the root cause.

How

To achieve it, we need to continuously answer this question:

How can we ship innovative tools for UI development teams so they can differentiate their products with their front-end experience?

One of the great drives we see product engineers joining MUI is when their management prevents them from going the extra mile to build what’s right, and they are frustrated by it.

Purpose

We take a lot of pride in making progress in uniquely solving some of those problems: At MUI, we are builders at heart, we love the craft. We believe UI interfaces are of critical importance to people. More precisely:

10 years vision

Our vision is to deliver a unified UI creation ecosystem for developers.

What does it look like? Imagine an ecosystem like Qt.io but for the web and one that is not perceived/marketed as a big monolith:

• Having a unified ecosystem goes in opposition to having a fragmented one. For example, you can find Tiugo Technologies working on CKEditor, TinyMCE, and Uploadcare, as isolated products, we don’t want this. Instead, we believe that an ecosystem that solves those problems by deeply integrating them is one that better serves the users.