I wonder if this is the death of true design.
Claude Design
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#742Anything but solve real problems Anything but that
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#743It really feels like Anthropic's product area is extremely overextended at this point. If they want to extend themselves horizontally in an unlimited fashion, they will need unlimited focus, and agents can't supply that. Things will fall through the cracks. Why should I believe that Anthropic will care about this product in 2, 3 years? Whereas I firmly believe that Figma will care greatly about its product in that ti…
OpenAI and Anthropic have realized that their entire business is exactly one open weight model drop away from Chinese labs that matches Opus 4.5 performance. They realized they have no product or ground to stand on. Once such model drops and once chip manufacturers catch up with demand, they are dead, if their only product is inference. So OpenAI decided to do weird things like buying up all the hardware that exists…
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#744Earlier quoted context omitted.
the beauty is in the consistency. why do we build with right angles, straight lines, regular curves, etc? Why not random angles, crooked lines, etc for style and "excitement"? Why don't we assemble a furniture set from a random assortment of pieces from flea markets? People sense that that is ugly.
A better example might be why we build stairs with a standard riser height and tread run. If you've ever accidentally tripped on an unusual or non-standard stair, you already know this. Users don't need to think about how to use them; they are ubiquitous and familiar, and therefore intuitive and automatic. If every set of stairs (or, worse, if every stair in a set) was radically different, every time you approached s…
Your point is true, but the one I was replying to was focusing on the aesthetic aspect. For them, the sameness of UIs, while functional, make for a drab experience.
My point is that I don't find this to be case. Rather, consistent UIs, while functional, are also beautiful to me. The constituents of the UI can be designed with aesthetic taste, but the way it is all put together consistently and functionally has a beauty all its own.
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> Marriott is basically the same for hotels. Marriotts are sadly not the same between countries, and that's probably a good thing. The standard for large chain hotels in the US are much, much lower than everywhere else in the world. Full-service Hiltons in the US don't even have executive lounges anymore.
> The standard for large chain hotels in the US are much, much lower than everywhere else in the world. this is true for fast food as well. mcdonalds in poland and spain were MUCH better than the slop in america. I had taco bell here in srilanka recently. it was DELICIOUS and tasted like real food. same goes for popeyes and pizza hut here. pizza hut in america on the other hand tastes regrettable and left me feeling…
mcDonalds in Poland used to be the luxury brand. This is the part Americans don't get.
It used to be the new, western chain that you only saw in American movies, and then you could experience it for yourself. When I was a kid (middle / solid working class family), we'd semi-regularly do mcDonalds trips as a treat. The experience of going to mcDonalds because you were too poor to do anything else was unthinkable to us.
Other brands that are staples of the American experience were also like this. CocaCola definitely comes to mind here; most of our tapwater is drinkable, and bottled water is much cheaper than coke, so that was the default option for most people, along with coffee and tea of course.
Somebody did the calculations on Polish Twitter recently, and apparently taking a 4-person family to Pizza Hut in the early 2000s used to cost more than our average daily wage.
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#746works crazily
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#747Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's how I see most of the system design capabilities of Opus. I've been an engineer for 15 years. It's so nice to describe what you want, it gets you in the ballpark, and you can refine and tweak to get it just right. Sometimes it's fun to have it design crazy stuff so you can play out a crazy idea without wasting too much time. I can see how it could easily translate to the visual design space. Now, if I could on…
There's multiple tools that generate architecture diagrams from text/code (Mermaid, LikeC4...). You start using one and tell the model to generate the text for the architecture diagram and it'll do it. Stuff like https://erode.dev tries to use LLMs to keep it in sync.
Spec-mode in the Kiro IDE generates requirements and design docs for a feature; the design always contains one or more Mermaid diagrams of the arch in the feature.
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#748For my agency this won't replace Figma or designers. It's just a really useful tool to express yourself and communicate intent. Before these tools, when a client wanted a specific section built, we'd spend hours hunting references across the web. The output always ended up feeling like a mesh of 2-3 sites, never fully unique. Then we'd burn more time explaining the intent to the client's designers and devs, usually w…
> this won't replace Figma or designers If every designer takes less time to do their job, you need less designers. There’s no getting around that simple math.
which makes the output of designers more cheep. which leads to an higher demand in sense of quantity and quality. which requires more designers.
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#749If you look at Figmas stock price, it started falling right at 11 AM as this news was released. Anyways, this is 100% a shot at Figma, but also catching Lovable in the crossfire. If anybody from Anthropic is reading this, if you keep developing this with features in Figma and other design tools, you'll have a major hit on your hands.
Exactly, most SAAS tools out there are going to be fighting off AI based alternatives popping up or being integrated into general purpose tools. The people using the old tools will be switching to tools that offer them better productivity. For this particular tool, that means designers and frontend developers.
Design work is already under a lot of pressure. I work with somebody that has an industrial design background and he's having a lot of fun with AI tools. There is still a need for good designers. But not to do a lot of the low end design work that has been common in a lot of front end teams. That stuff was always a bit questionable in value. I know some decent designers that were actually getting bored with that type of work. It's very repetitive.
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