Interactivity

Your AI agent can read your codebase. It doesn’t know your product.

How to feed AI coding agents the brand, patterns, and visual language that aren’t in your code.An open book of code lines beside a fanned deck of design specimens — the two artifacts of a product, only one of which the agent can read. Generated with OpenAI.TL;DR. AI coding agents can grep your codebase. They still produce generic-SaaS output because they lack the design context of your product: how it behaves, which interaction patterns it rejects on principle, what makes it feel like yours. I w

Folder instructions — Instructions for system-level AI

An idea to turn folders from passive storage into active systems that organise, act, and evolve based on your intent.Folder instructionsThe Claws and Claudes of the world have introduced a new way of interacting with AI assistants. Yes, they can take over your laptop, act on your behalf, organise your files, and even execute ideas within certain limits. But something more fundamental has changed.They are structured.For the first time, users can organise conversations with an assistant and its ou

Haptics: how to build a consistent cross-platform solution and align code with Figma

How we turned Apple’s haptic semantics into three numeric parameters that work identically on iOS, Android, and web — and mirror our Figma components.I’m currently working on a design system for a large SDUI project, and in this article I want to share my experience implementing haptics in our applications: explore the challenges you may encounter and arrive at a consistent solution across three platforms — iOS, Android, and mobile web.In this article, I’ll walk step by step from chaos (“each pl

I watched the manosphere documentary; here is how design is making things worse.

Somewhere between the happy path and edge cases, we forgot to design against harmful actors.Source: NetflixLast month, Louis Theroux’s Netflix documentary, “Inside the Manosphere,” was released and has generated a lot of online discourse. Brought to the eyes of the public by other programs like Netflix’s Adolescence, the “manosphere” is a network of communities frequented almost exclusively by young boys and men , whose content is deeply misogynistic, anti-feminist, anti-semite, and more. The au

Autopilot, agentic AI, and the dangers of imperfect metaphors

The language used to articulate AI is increasingly selling mathematics as magic and agency as intelligence; the words we use have power and meaningThe emerging technologies of AI, especially agentic AI, have many of us reaching for metaphors to make sense of them. I have seen many compare the technology to autopilot in planes. While this might seem to be a helpful parallel for understanding “how” someone might use agentive solutions in their work, it is flawed and misleading. There are very few

Oh, but there’s one more thing

The value of design in the AI eraHeader image inspired by the original Macintosh ads and by Barbara Kruger’s conceptual art. The 1984 Apple Macintosh computer image was prompted, and finalized by the author in Adobe Photoshop. It was generated by Gemini who is not sure what 1984 actually refers to. Type was rendered by the author in Adobe Illustrator.The response to the previous articles in this series surprised me, not because the argument was received well, I had hoped it would be, but because

Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere

Hey y’all, Kartik, Ishaan, and Christian from Omnara (https://www.omnara.com/) here. We’re building a web and mobile agentic IDE for Claude Code and Codex that lets you run and interact with coding agents from anywhere. Omnara lets you run Claude Code and Codex sessions on your own machine, and exposes those sessions through a web and mobile interface so you can stay involved even when you’re away from your desk. Think of it like Claude Code Desktop or Conductor, except you can co

Launch HN: Onyx (YC W24) – Open-source chat UI

Hey HN, Chris and Yuhong here from Onyx (https://github.com/onyx-dot-app/onyx). We’re building an open-source chat that works with any LLM (proprietary + open weight) and gives these LLMs the tools they need to be useful (RAG, web search, MCP, deep research, memory, etc.).Demo: https://youtu.be/2g4BxTZ9ztgTwo years ago, Yuhong and I had the same recurring problem. We were on growing teams and it was ridiculously difficult to find the right information across ou

Instagram Video Downloader: How SSSInstagram Helps Save Videos Easily

What Makes SSSInstagram Different?SSSInstagram is an online service designed specifically for downloading Instagram videos without any technical knowledge. Unlike many apps that require installation or registration, SSSInstagram works directly in your browser and is completely free.The tool supports all major Instagram content types and works equally well on desktop and mobile devices.What Can You Download with SSSInstagram?SSSInstagram allows users to download:- Instagram videos- Reels- Stories

Show HN: Zen Moment – A Developer-Friendly Breathing and Meditation Platform

Backstory: As a developer who spent years in front of screens dealing with stress and focus issues, I found most meditation apps either too childish or too commercial. I wanted to create a minimalist, developer-oriented tool that treats meditation as a productivity and mental health necessity rather than a trendy accessory. After optimizing the neumorphic design, SEO performance, and curating a library of natural soundscapes, I'm excited to share this with the HN community. What ma

Show HN: AI assistant that reads Intervals.icu data and adjusts workouts

Hi HN,I’m a self-coached endurance athlete and long-time user of Intervals.icu. Over the years I’ve gotten comfortable interpreting my own training data (CTL/ATL trends, HRV, fatigue, etc.), but I kept running into a practical problem:The training plan makes sense when you write it, but real life rarely cooperates.Bad sleep, work travel, missed workouts, or suddenly having only 45 minutes instead of two hours. In those moments the question becomes: does the planned workout still make sense

How Junior Web Designers Use Google Maps to Generate Cash

Most local businesses are quietly bleeding customers on Google Maps—and junior designers are turning that into easy cash. By spotting the “Map Gap” and sending quick video audits, you can land clients without competing on Upwork or Fiverr.

We become what we behold

A discussion of AI + Design and our shifting roles.Continue reading on UX Collective »

How to create an impactful user research plan

👋 Hey, I’m Nikki. Each week I write about UX research strategy, communicating impact, and using AI to do your best work. For more: Claude Skills Bundle | AI Prompt Library | Team TrainingSubscribe nowP.S. Paid subscribers get access to full archive, all content, a private Slack community, Substack lives, and a hub of templates, scripts, and mini-coursesI am an avid planner - I always have been, even when I tried to fight it. Planning ahead assures me that things will have a certain

AI, UX, and the factory model

The digital assembly line: Strategic orchestration and the industrialisation of user experienceOrder of designWhether you’re a designer, developer, or manager building or launching software and applications — you’re a victim of the AI and factory model dilemma.The digital design and development landscape is currently experiencing a significant transition, moving away from artisanal, manual craftsmanship toward a hyper-efficient, automated paradigm often characterised as the factory model.In a wo

The trust gap in healthcare AI isn’t about the AI

Why the industry is investing billions in better models when the real failure happens before the model ever runsA few months ago, I watched a physician abandon an AI diagnostic tool in under 30 seconds.She wasn’t skeptical of the technology. She’d actively asked for it. Her hospital had deployed the tool after a year-long procurement process, and she was one of the designated early adopters. When she opened it for the first time, she looked at the screen for about eight seconds, scrolled once, c

Show HN: VantageKit – a lightweight data room with staging, analytics, & AI Q&A

Hi HN,I’m the solo developer behind VantageKit. I was a PM for a long time and recently decided to get back into coding. I’ve been building this part-time for just under two months (first commit was Dec 26). I was able to move this fast largely by leaning heavily on Claude Code to accelerate my workflow, and I wanted to share the result here to get your feedback.THE PROBLEM: - Sharing pitch decks, proposals, or due diligence docs is full of friction. You either send PDF attachments (and fly blin

Ask HN: Anyone doing production image editing with image models? How?

Hey HN — I’m building an app where users upload “real life” clothing photos (ex. a wrinkly shirt folded on the floor). The goal is to transform that single photo into a clean, ecommerce-style image of the garment.One key UX requirement: the output needs to be a PNG with transparency (alpha) so we can consistently crop/composite the garment into an on-rails UI (cards, outfit layouts, etc.). Think “subject cutout that drops cleanly into templates.”My current pipeline looks like: 1. User-uploa

Show HN: utils.live – Developer utilities that run entirely in your browser

I kept opening different websites for simple dev tasks — formatting JSON, encoding Base64, testing regex patterns. Each one had ads, signup walls, or sent my data to a server. I wanted a single place where everything runs client-side with nothing leaving my browser.Each tool is a stateless pure function defined with Zod schemas. The schemas validate input at runtime and also generate the UI automatically — editor language, form fields, and output format are all inferred from the schema shape. To

Show HN: UseWhisper.dev – AI Code Reviewer (please test and roast it)

Hey HN!I built UseWhisper.dev — an AI code reviewer that analyzes your code diffs, PRs, or snippets and returns review feedback instantly. It runs in the browser with no signup required, and is meant to give developers quick second opinions on logic, style, security, and best practices.https://usewhisper.devWhat it does:Paste a diff, GitHub PR link, or code snippetGet line-by-line intelligent feedbackSuggestions on readability, errors, anti-patternsNo login, minimal UI, fast responsesW