Irsyad A. Panjaitan

Irsyad A. Panjaitan is a design engineer from Indonesia who creates Intent UI, an open-source set of accessible React components built on React Aria Components and Tailwind CSS. The library was originally released under the name justd and was later renamed Intent UI; its components are meant to be copied into a project and customized rather than installed as a locked dependency.

The main Intent UI repository on GitHub has around 2,000 stars, and the project has grown into a small ecosystem: an icon library (formerly Justd Icons), starter kits for Next.js and for Laravel with Inertia and React, and Intent UI Design, which sells premium templates, patterns and UI blocks. The open-source side is funded in part through GitHub Sponsors, and Irsyad now describes working full time on Intent UI and its ecosystem.

Before and alongside Intent UI, Irsyad has written about modern web development for Parsinta, an Indonesian learning platform for PHP, Laravel, JavaScript and React, including a book on building a cashier and point-of-sale app. Irsyad is also building a new product called Aurelie.