Every interface you use is built on a quiet but crucial choice: vertical or horizontal cards. This hidden decision shapes how we see, scroll, and interact with content every day.
Curious to hear what approaches people are taking, what the bottlenecks are, and whether anyone here is pushing toward the goal of "AI that understands you, the first time."I've been diving into the gap between benchmark ASR performance and real-world speech. Models like Whisper and Deepgram show impressive >95% accuracy in ideal conditions. But in the wild — accents, noisy environments, emotional speech, code-switching, overlapping speakers — accuracy often drops sharply, ofte
Hey HN,I feel like there is a gap in personal finance apps: local-first options typically have less polished UIs, while those with great design like Monarch Money are not local-first. This app fills the gap by providing a modern UI like Monarch/Monzo along with a database that you can hack around with outside of the app. File > app!- Local-first: transactions are stored in an encrypted SQLite database on your Mac, so you can read/write to it with Claude Code or your favourite DB cli
Hey HN, I’m the solo builder behind LogiCart.I recently refactored my frontend to use a Generative UI pattern (inspired by Google's new A2UI framework) because I realized a static chat interface fails for complex shopping intents.The Problem: A user buying a single item needs a completely different UX than a user planning a complex project. A standard "list of cards" doesn't work for both.The Solution: I built an Intent-to-UI engine where the LLM decides the interface structu
in the first week of 2026 i ended up using cursor and google antigravity back to back, not by plan but because i burned through two cursor ultra subscriptions faster than expected and decided to try antigravity on the free tier.my normal usage is ~$60–100/month. within a few days it jumped to $500+, with the dashboard projecting ~$1.6k/month. max mode was off, and the ui consistently showed a 200k context window.what i eventually pieced together is that cursor maintains a large hidden
Hello HN!We, a team of 2, built Subatix after one of us spent almost 6 years in big consulting and at certain point came to a thought like «90% of what consulting is usually data-analysis related, why not make smth so any business get same level of insights without externals and 6-figure+ checks and fast?!». Based the experience during every project everyone wants - fast answers from their data, but real ops/business data is messy, sensitive, and hard to outsource to generic AI tools due to
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Discuss children’s preference on avatar designImage created by AI tool ElevenLabsAs a developer in a children’s hospital, I’ve designed some playful VR simulations for young patients. We try to avoid serious medical settings because there are still concerns about using VR in serious clinical contexts. Instead, we use VR in two main ways: making tedious treatments more engaging through gamification, and providing distraction during painful moments. It’s become pretty common, and it’s effective.Bu
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How chatbot-first thinking makes products harder for usersWe’ve lived with AI long enough to witness some groundbreaking changes in how we live, work, and design. But we’ve also lived with it long enough for misconceptions to emerge — before best practices have really had a chance to settle.The pace of disruption remains wild. However, 2026 is already being described as the year of AI fatigue.For product leaders, this creates a new challenge: we need to define ways to approach UX for AI without
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Vibe coding is the buzzword of the moment, and for good reason , AI tools have given product designers a massive new superpower. They have turned us all into “makers.” In this article, I’ll show how I vibe coded two different projects: a floating UI cooking app and an XR basketball game.While Figma put vibe coding on the map for designers, this approach goes far beyond just one tool. There is an army of incredible tools serving different purposes: design-focused tools like Stitch; prototyping en
Starting with the base condition, one or more people are working on something, and there is a situation you deem a problem. For some reason, you wish it were moving differently. You can consider that situation in terms of its primary attribute: stagnant, maladapted, or adriftStagnant situations: the team is pointed in a useful direction and equipped to handle the work, but they aren't moving the situation forward or seeing progress. Maladapted situations: the team is making progress in a re
Have you ever set z-index: 99999 on an element in your CSS, and it doesn’t come out on top of other elements? A value that large should easily place that element visually on top of anything else, assuming all the different elements are set at either a lower value or not set at all.A webpage is usually represented in a two-dimensional space; however, by applying specific CSS properties, an imaginary z-axis plane is introduced to convey depth. This plane is perpendicular to the screen, and from it
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We’re consuming more content than ever, and remembering less of it. Here’s what the research says about our shrinking focus — and what’s fuelling the problem.Image by Pixelshunter on FreepikYou settle in for a quick scroll through your feed, maybe just to unwind for a minute or two. But somewhere between a cooking hack and a clip you’ve already forgotten, forty minutes vanished. It’s all a blur. Welcome to the era of infinite content and finite attention, where our brains are working overtime ju
Modern UI design is torn between two opposing forces: clarity and density. Minimalism promised calm, but often hides complexity—while dense interfaces like Figma or Notion prove chaos can be "beautifully organized". This piece dives into the uncomfortable truth every designer faces: when does clarity stop helping and start dumbing things down?
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.“This is simply a mismatch between how UI is generated in AI tools and how products are actually built. So instead of avoiding constraints such as branding and data, they need to be integrated into the generation process. This way, the UI becomes more valuable and can be used to continue to iterate past a demo or proof of concept (POC) phase.”What makes generated UI worth keeping? →By Allie PaschalEditor picksWhat if AI lies about you?
On stepping away and leaning in.My daughter and dog, enjoying a moment of mid-winter sun in our living room while I write thisWe don’t talk enough about how we feel about creating in the age of AI. I feel a lot, as a writer by profession and heart.I’ve gone through the seven stages of grief with AI a couple of times.Shock. It can write better than many.Denial. It’s not going to affect me.Anger. When my first clients started using it instead of paying me to write.Guilt. When I started using it my