Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design
The beast is hairy enough that entire design roles now specialize in wrangling the system itself.
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Wiretext
A spatial design tool where everything renders as Unicode box-drawing characters. Create wireframes, diagrams, and mockups.
There are only four skills: design, technical, management and physical
What determines whether someone is capable of relatively quickly acquiring expert-level performance in other domains?
Tailwind CSS colors
Generate, edit, save and share Tailwind CSS color shades based on a given hexcode or HSL color.
The AI chasm
Why most companies are still early in the AI journey—and what product leaders should focus on instead.
Expansion artifacts
AI output gets inflated into blog posts and LinkedIn thoughtspam, software platforms, omnichannel advertising campaigns, and more.
ASCII art generator
Create ASCII art for websites and marketing from images, video, live cam, and templates.
If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem, you have a problem
AI coding tools are optimising the wrong thing and nobody wants to hear it.
Design isn’t dying. It’s shifting left.
When the model is the new medium, shaping how it behaves in humanistic ways is design.
We built a banking app prototype with zero codeSponsored
Login, balance transfers, camera scanning—all built in ProtoPie. Explore the live demo, then see the 4-part breakdown.
What Claude Design actually changes for designers
The handoff problem is finally getting solved—and it’s happening faster than most of us expected.
Charcuteria
A visual explorer for Unicode. Browse characters, discover related glyphs, and explore scripts, symbols, and shapes across the standard.
Good taste the only real moat left
The real edge comes from pairing judgment with context, stakes, and the willingness to build.
Red-lining AI
Blanket AI bans mistake the tool for the problem, Thoughtful integration of automation, ethics, and creative work offers a better path forward.
The WebAIM Million
The 2026 report on the accessibility of the top 1,000,000 home pages.
AI makes you boring
Prompting an AI model is not articulating an idea. You get the output, but in terms of ideation the output is discardable.
How to improve UX in legacy systems
Practical guidelines for driving UX impact in organizations with legacy systems and broken processes.
When moving fast, talking is the first thing to break
Talking takes time. Consensus is expensive and slow. When speed is the priority, there’s no incentive to improve or invest in the shared system.