Ux
Slide Revisions are officially 100% rolled out on the mobile app! Because the best ideas (and the most urgent edits) tend to happen when you're nowhere near your computer.
<rant> MY KINGDOM for one agent that can actually do e2e design -> pixel-perfect frontend code (including auth so it can login to the app). I'm currently using @paper + Claude Code + Codex CLI + Codex Mac App + agent-browser + Claude Code Chrome extension + ... It's ridiculous. I really, really, really want one ADE to own all this. Come on people. You literally have billions of dollars collectively in funding to sort this out. I'm working on a @nextjs app - this is literally burned into the weights of the models - not doing something new or novel here. Maybe it's a skill issue on my side. Honestly I doubt it though - I spend 10 hours/day in these tools and I've been coding with agents for 3 years. Part of the problem is that I want the UX to be pixel-perfect, beautiful, and elegant. I'm very opinionated about the design being perfect. Maybe the problem is that I've been a backend developer my whole career, so if I was a front-end developer, maybe all this would be easier. The point is that we need the agents to allow anyone to write perfectly *designed* front end code. Also, to be clear: I have a design system skill. I have clear and concise documentation. I don't have any documentation drift. I don't have bloated agents md files. I'm doing everything correctly, and this is still WAY too freaking hard. </rant>
Introducing json-render AI-generated UI. Deterministic output. 1. Define your component catalog 2. AI steams JSON 3. Render interactive UI Let users prompt dashboards, widgets and apps - safely constrained to components and actions you define
A small quality of life detail: you can now press tab to add more instructions when accepting/rejecting a permission prompt. We tried probably a dozen iterations of this UX over the last few weeks before deciding to ship this one. Let us know what you think!
pill expand to split view - this keeps visual continuity unlocks direct canvas manipulation
BREAKING: Within the past 72 hours: - Apple's AI Chief steps down - Apple's Head of UI Design leaves to Meta - Apple's Policy Chief steps down - Apple's Head of General Counsel steps down
To make a button feel real, @darustudio crouched beside a light switch in his apartment, pressing it on and off, watching how shadows moved. Inside how he and @lucaslovexoxo designed @usemonologue for iOS: http://every.to/source-code/how-to-desig…
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How to Design Software With Weight
Good Products are Opinionated. “Every great founder I’ve seen up close, or even from afar, is highly opinionated and they’re almost dictatorial in how they run things. Also, early-stage teams are opinionated. And the products they build are opinionated. Opinionated means they have a strong vision for what it should and should not do. If you don’t have a strong vision of what it should and should not do, then you end up with a giant mess of competing features. @Jack Dorsey has a great phrase: “Limit the number of details and make every detail perfect.” And that’s especially important in consumer products. You have to be extremely opinionated. All the best products in consumer-land get there through simplicity. You could argue the recent success of ChatGPT and similar AI chatbots is because they’re even simpler than Google. Google looked like the simplest product you could possibly build. It was just a box. But even that box had limitations in what you could do. You were trained not to talk to it conversationally. You would enter keywords and you had to be careful with those keywords. You couldn’t just ask a question outright and get a sensible answer. It wouldn’t do proper synonym matching, and then it would spit you back a whole bunch of results. That was complicated. You’d have to sift through and figure out which ones were ads, which ones were real, were they sorted correctly, and then you’d have to click through and read it. ChatGPT and the chatbot simplified that even further. You just talk to it like a human—use your voice or you type and it gives you back a straight answer. It might not always be right, but it’s good enough, and it gives you back a straight answer in text or voice or images or whatever you prefer. So it simplifies what we looked at as the simplest product on the Internet, which was formerly Google, and makes it even simpler. And you just cannot make a product that’s simple enough. To be simple, you have to be extremely opinionated. You have to remove everything that doesn’t match your opinion of what the product should be doing. You have to meticulously remove every single click, every single extra button, every single setting. In fact, things in the settings menu are an indication that you’ve abdicated your responsibility to the user. Choices for the user are an abdication of your responsibility. Maybe for legal or important reasons, you can have a few of these, but you should struggle and resist against every single choice the user has to make. In the age of TikTok and ChatGPT, that’s more obvious than ever. People don’t want to make choices. They don’t want the cognitive load. They want you to figure out what the right defaults are and what they should be doing and looking at, and they want you to present it to them.”
taste is a new core skill
Product management is the art of the writing the least amount of code for the greatest benefit to your users.
Another http://ui.sh before/after shot — still early and lots to do but it's getting better! Same prompt, just with and without our taste layer 👅
“There’s a Mexican standoff happening between product manager, designer, and coder.” Marc Andreessen on how AI is reshaping core tech roles: “Every coder now believes they can also be a product manager and a designer, because they have AI. Every product manager thinks they can be a coder and a designer. And every designer knows they can be a product manager and a coder.” “People in each of those roles now know or believe that with AI, they don’t need the other two roles anymore.” @pmarca on Lenny's Podcast with @lennysan
Too excited to be more strategic about sharing — demos coming this week ✨ https://ui.sh
Documenting your design system in .md is a huge unlock. Then making a skill for it is even bigger unlock. So happy. Thank you @joshpuckett