The pixel-perfect designer is dead, and Google Stitch just held the funeral. We’re officially trading the "craft" of manual UI for the era of "Vibe Design"—where a 30-second prompt can outperform a month of Figma iterations.
How I built my own AI team with nothing but text files, a conversation in Claude Cowork, and a lot of character.I built what I call a soft-agent team for my book (sounds vaguely like a fabric softener brand, but bear with me). I have never done anything like it before and do not have an engineering background, which I mention not as a disclaimer but as the actual point.Five AI agents. An editor-in-chief, a voice assistant, sales, product, and a reader advocate. They discuss, disagree, and help m
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.“Despite the title proliferation, there is a shared DNA. Design Engineering lives at the intersection of visual design and front-end development. Not simply being good at both, but a distinct discipline focused on the space where design decisions meet technical implementation.”The design engineer symptom: what a rising job title reveals →By Anna LefourAI for UX Design — Nearly 1,000 Designers Trained →[Sponsored] Join designers from co
Something has shifted in the way the design field operates, and I think most of us can sense it even if we haven’t yet found the words or identified the exact schema for it.Header image inspired by Sonny’s (Claude Sonnet 4.6) advice to avoid “robot hands, neural network visualizations, glowing brain scans,” author’s college memories of American sci-fi artist Frank Kelly Freas cover for Queen’s News of the World, Barbara Kruger’s conceptual art, and Louis Sullivan’s design maxim “form follows fun
Hi HN,I am the founder of SprintPulse. Like many of you, I used to dread retrospective meetings. They often turned into a repetitive cycle where we wrote down the same issues every sprint but never actually fixed them. "Better communication" was on our action item list for months.I built SprintPulse to fix that loop. It is a tool designed not just to collect feedback, but to make sure it leads to real change.When I looked at the tools available, I found they fell into two camps.On one
Hi HN,A few months ago we noticed a pattern. Every GTM, product, and marketing team we talked to had the same problem. They were drowning in external data from Reddit, Discord, Slack communities, competitor sites, and social channels. But turning all of that noise into something structured and useful took an enormous amount of time.We watched people spend days copying screenshots into spreadsheets, tagging posts, and checking competitor websites by hand. We were doing the same thing ourselves an
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UX designers design every interface to be as intuitive and easy to use as possible, and to do this, and they rely on “design thinking,” a step-by-step guide to the UX design process. Let's explore the UX design process and look at common tasks in each UX design phase and which roles are responsible for them.The user experience design cycle can be unpredictable. Every project will have different user needs and business goals. Each problem has a different context and scope. Most of all, design tea
Creativity is a massive appeal factor for designers (and those who enjoy what we do!) as they bring to bear their creative talents and skill sets on projects and dazzle users, customers, and the brand themselves who launch their design solutions. With that said, though—and for all the digital products that reach the target audience spot-on—things can get more than a little confusing on the hiring front. Different companies might list widely (and hopefully not wildly!) different responsibilities,
The week, we replace AI with humans and draw prompt answers, discover how AI hallucinations confuse shoppers and tourists and answer the question "can we educate accessibility overlay companies?". Also enjoy the longest line of sight on earth, beautiful illustrations, and an adorable Ikea x Tiny Chef collab.
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
# TelUITelUI is a Electron-based UI framework that packages a handful of reusable front-end primitives—color utilities, typography helpers, and basic structural styles—so you can prototype simple desktop UI ideas with minimal setup.## Features - Bundled Electron runner (`npm start`) that serves `index.html` for instant desktop previews. - Tokenized styling layers: `color.css`, `font.css`, `header.css`, and `align.css` keep presentation rules isolated and easy to remix. - Micro-interaction helper
We’re building Tikpal, an AI voice productivity tool based on a simple principle: Human creativity should remain the core engine. AI should be an accelerator, not the protagonist.The goal is to reduce screen dependency and cognitive fragmentation, and let people work in a more natural “voice-first” flow. Instead of clicking through interfaces and context-switching between apps, you talk to Tikpal, and it helps you think, structure ideas, and execute tasks.Three layers we are focusing on:FOCUS —
# TelUITelUI is a Electron-based UI framework that packages a handful of reusable front-end primitives—color utilities, typography helpers, and basic structural styles—so you can prototype simple desktop UI ideas with minimal setup.## Features - Bundled Electron runner (`npm start`) that serves `index.html` for instant desktop previews. - Tokenized styling layers: `color.css`, `font.css`, `header.css`, and `align.css` keep presentation rules isolated and easy to remix. - Micro-interaction helper
Hey Flutter devsIf you've shipped apps before, you know how important it is to have an efficient and polished onboarding flow. It's the first thing users see and often the reason they leave.You've probably first focused on the core of your app, what makes it different. And now, you want to push it to the store, but you know you have to build an onboarding flow... and it's a little painful.Onboarding flows are deceptive. They are super easy to build technically, but very diffi
"When perception shifts, and the feeling of control takes over")I wrote up a deep dive into a security issue in OpenClaw that escalates from a seemingly small UX/trust boundary problem into full remote code execution via a single malicious link.The article walks through the full exploit chain from a systems perspective rather than just a CVE summary. The key theme is what I call “synesthetic computation”: when subjective context, UI state, agent memory, and system permissions get
I just released the first public version of Aperture Core, an SDK for deciding which agent events deserve human attention now, which should wait, and which should stay in the background.The core loop is simple: - publish an event - get back a frame if it should enter the human attention surface - render that frame in your UI/workflow - submit the human response back into the engineAs agents get more capable and one human starts supervising more of them, the bottleneck shifts toward human at
I built RotaFlow to solve the UX disaster of current shift work apps. Most incumbents are web-wrappers laden with ads.The Stack:* Language: Swift 6 / SwiftUI. * Persistence: Core Data synced via CloudKit (NSPersistentCloudKitContainer). * Architecture: MVVM with a custom "LoopEngine" for O(1) shift calculation.The Interesting Part: I implemented a "Future Cliff" paywall. The app is fully functional for the next 30 days. Accessing dates beyond t+30d triggers a blurred UI
Democratisation, panic, quality collapse, then new norms emerging. This isn’t new terrain.Scroll through any design discussion right now and you’ll find the same anxieties circulating. The specifics vary. Which tools to learn, whether the career ladder still holds, what counts as “distinctly human,” to name a few. But the underlying question is the same: will AI replace us, and what should we be doing about it?The unease is palpable, and it’s not abstract. Design teams are shrinking. Generative
The hamburger menu—with its three horizontal lines—simplifies website navigation. Not every interface benefits from its use, but it can help in certain scenarios. That’s why it’s vital to understand when it shines and when alternatives might serve users better. So, learn the pros and cons of using this small—yet effective—icon and implement the best practices for effective application.Have you ever clicked on a symbol that resembles a hamburger to open up a menu? That's the hamburger menu for yo