Zhihuang Lin, known as oil-oil, builds AI products and frontend tools. His projects include Oil Motion, which prepares generated animation for interactive pages, and Oil UI, a design workflow for coding agents.[1][2]
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Career
His portfolio describes moving from frontend development into AI product management. It lists earlier work with API7.ai, SuperMagic and OpenCreator and current work on MuseOn, alongside independently published tools. That combination puts product decisions and the frontend mechanisms used to express them within the same body of work.[2]
Contributions
Prepare the motion before the interaction
Oil Motion confirms key images, generates the transitions between them, checks the frames and prepares compressed browser assets. Scrolling, pointer movement, dragging or device orientation can control the resulting timeline. The browser plays prepared frames rather than asking a model to generate a new image for each movement.[3]
Choose an asset format for the actual display
The workflow distinguishes a rendered scene from reusable transparent material, and considers display size, random access and device memory when choosing a video or image atlas. It calls for a small pilot in the actual page before bulk generation. Frame problems such as changed anatomy or product structure require new source material; compression cannot repair an incorrect action.[3]
Ideas
Oil UI begins with a product, audience and references, then makes explicit choices about typography, spacing and color. When several directions are requested, it asks for differences in composition rather than superficial recoloring. Its process uses desktop and mobile screenshots to inspect the result and asks the user to choose a direction before further refinement.[4]
Tools, writing & talks
Tools
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Oil UI
github.comA design workflow that turns product references into visual directions and screenshot-based refinement.
Read the design process and give the agent a concrete product, audience and references. The skill needs a compatible coding agent; visual judgment and review remain part of the work.
Creator and repository owner[4]- Oil Motion
github.comGenerated and processed motion assets mapped to browser interactions.
Creator and repository owner[3]Original source
Writing, research & talks
- Professional portfoliooiloil.org
Product and frontend projects, with an account of his move into AI product work.
Author[2]