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Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design
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#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
> only it was "Photoshop files hold the (design) truth" before You mean Fireworks. Photoshop was for graphic design. Web designers used Adobe Fireworks. Figma is a successor to Fireworks, not Photoshop.
Nah yeah Photoshop .PSD's were totally normal for website designs. I got extremely proficient at building functioning websites based on PSD files, going back as far as the days of using nested structures with 1x1 transparent spacer.gif images :) I built hundreds of websites from .PSD files, and Fireworks was pretty much non-existent in my experience.
Those days aren’t over. HN uses nested tables with 1x1 transparent spacer.gif images.
I like that HN’s design is timeless. It’s a shame people usually ignore it, or are critical of it.
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Homogenous might be awesome. I miss predictable UIs.
Good design is distinctive. No one wants a world where everything looks the same.
I think its good that HN and reddit are basically the same, or that all old forums were basically the same but with different color schemes. Homogeneity is a blessing for UX.
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#176The article makes a good point about how Figma's non-open data model is limiting their utility as the source of truth. But I think it's part of a larger mistake Figma is making: they seem to have shifted to an extraction mindset too early, assuming they'd captured the market, right when the ground beneath them is starting to shift. It's most visible in their pricing model evolution, which is now explicitly anti-colla…
> The big tools that won on collaboration (eg. Google Docs) have understood that low-friction sharing is critical to becoming the default choice. Google docs is a heavily subsidized product and not representative. Also tool pricing seems hard, but I can’t really get behind saying that a company should bait and switch with their pricing models harder.
Under that logic is a free trial a bait and switch? How about a 1-month free deal? How about what Adobe (and many others) do where they license to the school and students get it free until they graduate?
It seems like a really weird point to make, when you could just as easily argue that Figma giving their services for free to students is a gift that levels the playing field, by allowing students without means to gain experience with industry standard tools they might not have been exposed to otherwise.
It’s not zero-sum.
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#177I used it today to take a look at my previously built design system with Logos, branding, fonts, and everything else. After a lot of annoying tweaking back and forth, finally, I got something that was satisfactory. Then I looked at the usage and it said I had used 95% of my Claude design usage for the week! This isn't a real tool. This is a plaything, if that's what they're providing as examples.
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This is just completely false. But I have a feeling there's no way you're going to change your mind. "make things pretty" would be a graphic designer or artist. Are you saying the entire arm of Product design is a made up value?
I wouldn’t, but you’re not much of a product designer if you can’t get your ideas across using simple tools like a sketch on a whiteboard (there was|is an app the let you take photos and link them using active areas). So you can take bootstrap (or even raw html) and create something useful. Then you make it nice, not the other way around. You would have to be a big outlier to feel the need to create a custom widget.…
> So you can take bootstrap (or even raw html) and create something useful. Then you make it nice, not the other way around.
Design with a capital D is a completely different realm than whatever you’re talking about. Not even in the same ballpark.
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Homogenous might be awesome. I miss predictable UIs.
Damn you just made me realize. We used to have everything having personality but being consistent as far as UX goes. Now everything looks like tax forms and the UX is all over the place.
That’s because designers stopped caring about following each platform’s guidelines because they want to spread “brand recognition” or some shit like that.
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Damn you just made me realize. We used to have everything having personality but being consistent as far as UX goes. Now everything looks like tax forms and the UX is all over the place.
That’s because designers stopped caring about following each platform’s guidelines because they want to spread “brand recognition” or some shit like that.
This exudes everywhere. I've had cases of where some weirdo company changes their packaging on, say, soap... and now I literally can't find what I used to use. The logic is that some other company is cloning their look, so they want to "stand out" again, and thus change theirs.
Sometimes, I'll manage to find the brand with the new colours and logo. But often even then, I can't find the specific product from that brand. They've changed it so much I can't tell which version I picked before. Which makes me look for something more like what I used to have.
Good job "standing out" guys. I'd say literally maybe 1/3 of the time, I've just literally lost products. I don't know the name, just how it looks.