We CAN have nice Shiny apps: What's new in Shiny's UI & UX

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Shows concrete UI changes: a refreshed color system shipped as a bootswatch theme, new components (sliders, cards, full‑screen value boxes) and a components gallery with live code samples; layout work adds fillable containers, sidebars and accordions to keep apps usable as they scale; accessibility target is WCAG AA contrast; R uses bslib while Python gets these features built in; includes Shiny Templates with sample data and live demos so you can clone working boilerplate immediately.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 2:50Shinys UI
3. 6:22Shiny Components
4. 9:05Layouts
5. 12:30Dashboards
6. 14:50Templates

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