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A lot of these things are continuations of previous trends too. The shimmering text effect is strongly reminiscent of skeleton UI, only repurposed for chat interfaces. As always, design is more continuous evolution than discrete shifts.
I actually like the shimmer effect, I think it’s preferable to almost all spinners. If the agent is set up to properly show intent then this is better than spinners or exponentially decreasing loading bars.
> before AI what were the connotations of the sparkle emoji ? It generally stood for either: - fireworks (combined with other firework emojis,) - birthdays/festivals (next to the birthday cake and "party popper" thing emoji,) - magic (next to the wizard or wand, which features almost identical sparkles) It was pretty festive. Now it's just AI, lol.
> There are other aesthetics my brain associates with AI, like beige/cream colors, orange accents, and serif typefaces Something to consider regarding the narrow space AI-created designs align on: LLMs are trained to write consistent code. This makes sense for something like a billing or a backend function - you want that code to be consistent. The problem though is that LLMs write code to represent designs as well,…
For as long as the sparkle emoji has been in use I have taken it to be a red flag, the telltale sign of "buttons not to click". I can't imagine how a designer could justify including it at this point.
Another AI-ism is the use of the word "grain" in technical contexts. I'm confident the OP is human-written, but everything in my AI-supported codebase is about grains, seams, tracer bullets, and load-bearing components now. I'd barely heard some of these words before, and now they're everywhere. It's like everyone suddenly has a friend who speaks in the same idiosyncratic way, and we're all picking up their vocal sti…
Oh no. I'm afraid you may have neglected to do smoke tests.
This is mostly just the 2010-2024 SaaS aesthetic. AI was trained on it and so is picking it up.
The tiny icons are good. There was a touch device fad that surfaced, and is subsequently dying, now that people realise that using laptop screen realestate more efficiently helps those doing actual work.
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I like your product and I’m gonna try it because I’m growing to hate the “Claude generated website aesthetic” but $0.13 is way too cheap.
Ha! Totally fair. 13 cents is 0% margin, which is what I'm targeting for individual plans. I literally just got my SOC2 compliance complete an hour ago, and I'm gonna roll out team plans/enterprise plans next week (unified billing + shared brands). For teams I'm gonna charge a flat 25% margin on API costs, and for enterprise I'll have a 50% margin + minimum spend. I think I'm going to keep the individual plans at 0%…
If I’m using this towards something that makes me money, I’d pay a lot more, but it really depends on context. In general, I’ll spend $5 like it’s nothing, $20 if it’s nothing and it’s for a business expense, and probably $50-100 for a design scheme for my (quite small) business. I don’t know that I’m a representative sample, but I’ll put my money where my mouth is, because I just added an extra $5 to play around more.
Btw, it’s a really innovative interface. It’s fun and very different from other tools I’ve seen. I quite like it but it’s also a bit confusing. Feel free to contact me if you want customer feedback (info in profile).
loooooooooooong landing pages is a sure tell sign of vibe coded slop, the new geocities “you know what, ten more sections to get the point across is absolutely the right move, you’ve nailed it, and frankly, that’s rare”
Another one is a table of contents in something short.
https://www.ign.com/articles/pragmata-contains-a-stage-thats...