Visualizing the Problem
In B2B marketing, the most powerful story you can tell is "Before vs. After." For the AI SaaS Template, we wanted to make this story interactive. We didn't just want to say our tool solves infrastructure chaos; we wanted the user to feel it.
Enter the Split Screen component.
The Concept
The component is a window into two parallel realities:
- The Legacy World (Chaos): A red-tinted, glitchy terminal showing server crashes and latency spikes.
- The Nexusia World (Clarity): A clean, green-lit workflow where data flows smoothly.
The user controls the boundary between these worlds with a draggable slider.
Technical Implementation
1. The Layered Approach
We use absolute positioning to stack the two worlds on top of each other.
- Layer 1 (Bottom): The "Clarity" view. It's always fully rendered.
- Layer 2 (Top): The "Chaos" view. It sits on top but is clipped.
2. The Clip-Path Magic
Instead of resizing the top container (which would squash the content), we use the CSS clip-path property. This acts like a digital scissor, cutting away the part of the "Chaos" layer that the user has revealed.
<div
className="absolute inset-0 z-20"
style={{ clipPath: `inset(0 ${100 - sliderPosition}% 0 0)` }}
>
{/* Chaos Content */}
</div>3. The Scrolling Terminal
To sell the "Chaos" effect, we built a ScrollingTerminal component. It uses framer-motion to infinitely scroll a list of error logs (Network unreachable, OOM Kill). We added a mix-blend-screen mode to make the text look like it's glowing on a CRT monitor.
4. Synchronized Layouts
title: "Engineering the 'Chaos vs Clarity' Split Screen" description: "How we built the signature interactive slider component that defines the AI SaaS template's narrative." date: "2025-11-24" image: "/images/blog/split-screen-cover.jpg" authors: ["Artifact UI Team"]
Visualizing the Problem
In B2B marketing, the most powerful story you can tell is "Before vs. After." For the AI SaaS Template, we wanted to make this story interactive. We didn't just want to say our tool solves infrastructure chaos; we wanted the user to feel it.
Enter the Split Screen component.
The Concept
The component is a window into two parallel realities:
- The Legacy World (Chaos): A red-tinted, glitchy terminal showing server crashes and latency spikes.
- The Nexusia World (Clarity): A clean, green-lit workflow where data flows smoothly.
The user controls the boundary between these worlds with a draggable slider.
Technical Implementation
1. The Layered Approach
We use absolute positioning to stack the two worlds on top of each other.
- Layer 1 (Bottom): The "Clarity" view. It's always fully rendered.
- Layer 2 (Top): The "Chaos" view. It sits on top but is clipped.
2. The Clip-Path Magic
Instead of resizing the top container (which would squash the content), we use the CSS clip-path property. This acts like a digital scissor, cutting away the part of the "Chaos" layer that the user has revealed.
<div
className="absolute inset-0 z-20"
style={{ clipPath: `inset(0 ${100 - sliderPosition}% 0 0)` }}
>
{/* Chaos Content */}
</div>3. The Scrolling Terminal
To sell the "Chaos" effect, we built a ScrollingTerminal component. It uses framer-motion to infinitely scroll a list of error logs (Network unreachable, OOM Kill). We added a mix-blend-screen mode to make the text look like it's glowing on a CRT monitor.
4. Synchronized Layouts
The trickiest part was ensuring the "Broken Workflow" on the left perfectly aligned with the "Fixed Workflow" on the right. We used identical grid layouts for both, but applied different styles (grayscale/blur for chaos, bright/sharp for clarity) to the individual nodes.
Why It Works
This component does heavy lifting for your conversion rate. It gamifies the value proposition. Users spend an average of 3-4 seconds just playing with the slider—that's 3-4 seconds they are internalizing your core message: We fix the mess.
Check out the AI SaaS Template to see the code.