sensory-ui

js applications, focusing on enhancing user interfaces with meaningful sound cues. It is designed specifically for use with shadcn/ui, enabling developers to add audio feedback to UI components through a single prop. The tool addresses the absence of a native, framework-integrated approach to procedural sound feedback in modern web development, aiming to make interfaces more informative and engaging by leveraging the auditory channel.

The library offers 17 semantic sound roles distributed across 24 components, organized into five categories: interaction, overlay, navigation, notification, and hero moments. These roles correspond to a range of user interface events, such as button taps, toggles, confirmations, overlay state changes, navigation actions, system notifications, and celebratory milestones. Each sound is procedurally generated in real time using the Web Audio API, eliminating the need for bundled audio files and minimizing latency. This approach keeps the library lightweight, with a gzipped size of approximately 26 KB.

sensory-ui emphasizes accessibility and user comfort. It respects the user's system preferences for reduced motion, provides a global kill-switch, and allows per-category toggles for sound. Every audio cue is paired with a visual equivalent, ensuring that sound enhances rather than replaces visual feedback. The sounds are crafted to be informative, matching the significance of the interaction—gentle for errors, subtle for minor actions, and richer for major milestones. The tool's philosophy is to use sound intentionally, avoiding unnecessary or decorative audio.

js projects quickly, following a straightforward installation and configuration process. The tool is open source under the MIT License, and its resources, including documentation and examples, are available online. sensory-ui is built by Satyam and aims to fill the gap for a clean, framework-native solution for semantic audio feedback in web interfaces.