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- mg330
LinkedIn is rampant right now with posts about Claude Design and other Figma killers.
I can't tell if the post authors are faux-design-"influencers" or actual UX and product designers working on complex projects, or whether they're solo freelancers or people working within actual businesses.
But the one thing that I keep realizing is that without some beyond-advanced technical web skills and technology aptitude, most of these people are creating static stuff they have to run in Claude, and would struggle to export outside of it if creating a functional prototype.
I'm working on a prototype for a project of my own right now, and with every terminal command, VS Code instruction, extensive troubleshooting and error correcting with Claude, scaffolding command, etc. etc. I keep wondering "is the average non-technical ux designer going to know how to even do anything of this?"
There's this weird consensus amongst the posts I'm seeing that we're down to prompt level do-it-all instructions to just let Claude do everything. Sure, that's great if you're just instructing Figma to do something, but to actually spin up a fully functional website, with all the frameworks needed, that's way more involved and IMO not an easy task for someone who is solely a designer.
I keep wondering if this is where the differentiation is in UX, especially in a role that's a mix of design and technologist hats.
I'm looking for a new role right now since my contract where I currently work is up in May. It's this kind of stuff that I agonize over when it comes to cover letter and resume, in trying to confidently showcase that mix of ux design and design technologist in a way that leverages AI tools the right way.
Thoughts?
- I've been playing around with claud design and I must say it's quite excellent at building websites even from a few vague prompts and mood boards_niko
- the only issue is that you quickly burn through credits, my basic $30/month plan wasted after 1 simple build and then I upgraded to $130/month_niko
- I'd love to hear more about how you're using it. What I want to better understand is if there's the gap I'm imagining.mg33
- which was 20x the credits but that didn't get me far either. apples to apples though it's still way cheaper than hiring someone or spending hundreds of hours d_niko
- ...doing it myself._niko
- EX: What precisely is the output Claude Design is giving you? Is it functional code? Where does it live? Is it on Github? Local?mg33
- My AI coding learning started in 2021. These days I'm starting in Claude console chats (not even Claude code) and then moving over to Claude in VS Code.mg33
- Everything's running on my NAS, local server and all that.
Where is Claude Design outputting code?mg33 - It exports the full codebase and you can upload it to your server. I believe, I haven't gotten that far yet, just prototypes but they look like fully working si_niko
- sites to me._niko
- the output is html with inline css and JS. I'm just going through it now to see if it's making calls anywhere. I don't have forms or admin sections, just front-_niko
- I think you need to bite the bullet and try a basic plan, for 1/4 of what you charge clients for a single hour you can play with it for a month. then cancel._niko
- Gotcha. So, full code, but inline. Not separated out, dedicated folders for frameworks, shared code, etc.mg33
- In your opinion, Niko, do you feel like it's best suited to prototyping and handoff to dev? Or close-to-final code for a dev to polish, QA, etc?mg33
- The thing I'm prototyping now, it's all separate files. Basically built an environment where I can start creating multiple projects and prototypesmg33
- with the same shared files, CSS, MUI tokens, React stuff, etc. Going to add a DB to it on my NAS and it becomes leagues beyond anything I could do in Figmamg33
- and it took 1/100th the time to set up, prompt the features, fully use MUI components, establish design tokens, and it's fully functional.mg33
- DB takes it much further if I were to show it as a functional prototype as opposed to building one in Figma. Feels like Axure and how it can save variables,mg33
- has working inputs, etc.mg33
- for me it's close to final code but again, I've only created front-end builds with it. But I'm treating these as proof of concept or glorified mockups for clien_niko
- It’s basically just Claude so it can output the code in whatever format you want. However I think you’re right that without technical knowledge, people mightyuekit
- not be able to translate into a finished site very easily.yuekit
- renderedred1
- Even AI skips legs day.utopian
- Gary coming with the smackdownyuekit
- as usual ;)renderedred
- He has retweeted my posts a few times including just now.
https://x.com/GaryMa…yuekit
- yuekit1
Regarding this idea that AI is going to lead to mass unemployment and make developers and designers obsolete, it's interesting to look at what the AI companies themselves are doing.
Anthropic currently has 453 open job positions. The company currently has a total of around 2,500 employees so if they hired all those people it would be around 20% increase in the size of the company.
https://www.anthropic.com/career…
With OpenAI, it's even more dramatic...they currently have 652 open positions but this article says they plan to nearly double the size of the company by the end of 2026 from around 4,500 to around 8,000.
https://openai.com/careers/searc…
https://www.reuters.com/business…
And in both cases the open roles include things like: software engineer, art director, UI designer, copywriter, video director etc.
- half joking: theyre using the job submissions to train AI on what a UI designer, for example, believes are important /sarc.Squiddy
- and in my experience most dont even respond.Squiddy
- Yeah to actually get a job, I'm sure it relies a lot on connections etc. Nonetheless they are engaged in a massive hiring spree while encouraging everyone elseyuekit
- to do the opposite.yuekit
- And the developer roles include salaries of up to a half a million a year.yuekit
- maybe a few of the 10,000 Meta laid off could apply!MrT
- utopian6
- @10:36
Although birds might not urinate, like mammals, they do produce urine.
Everyone is wrong on this one.palimpsest
- @10:36
- yuekit0
Has anyone tried actually using OpenClaw or Hermes agent?
https://openclaw.ai/
https://hermes-agent.nousresearc…
https://github.com/nousresearch/…
- slappy3
Being that these tools change so rapidly, it would be useful if people could share what they are using and how they are building it into their work processes.
We are using Claude cowork to setup projects for each client and drop in all their brand guides, positioning, tone of voice docs and generate a brand-kit.md file for Claude to reference when doing research or writing copy.
Weavy (Figma Weave now?) to do node based image generations with LLM nodes to take the brief and write the iteration instructions etc. Mainly for brand mockups etc so you you pump out 10 placements at a time.
We also use Nano Banana Pro (via Krea.ai) to extend photoshoots, where we create the main suite of images and then use the banana to roll out additional views as required.
Its easy to waste a lot if time playing with new tools, but if they don't make your work better or faster than they end up being more of a hinderance.
- GPT image 2.0 just buried Nano Banana.
It's going too fast, impossible to keep up with these tools.ApeRobot - the fuck is an .md file? how does a brand kit in Claud help with client work? I’m not being snarky. I run an in house production studio and I’m curiousmonospaced
- How do you use it for brand mockups exactly?monospaced
- in my case, i feed all the brand guidelines and all my design files into Figma Make, then, when i get a new project, I'm able to whip up a fairly decentexador1
- prototype that uses all our brand colours, fonts, components etc ... which helps when presenting to some of the stake holders here.exador1
- @mono an .md file is just a text file with some standardised formatting so help create a hierarchy for LLMs to better understand the structure.slappy
- We use it to apply logos, colours, layouts to common mockups like hats, t-shirts, bus shelters, rock posters, laptops, phones, hoarding what ever.slappy
- The node based approach means the logo doesn't get changed by the image generator, colours remain consistent. https://weave.figma.…slappy
- .md is Markdown, an HTML shorthand created by John Gruber of Daring Fireball fame. Widely-used in tech circles, easy-to-learn if you're web-savvy.evilpeacock
- I’m so left behindmonospaced
- mono: Dive Club podcastuan
- GPT image 2.0 just buried Nano Banana.
- ApeRobot-2
- yuekit0
IMO what he says in this video would be the perfect message for Democrats to run on in the midterm election in relation to AI.
Instead left-wing politicians seem to focusing on more esoteric issues like a data center moratorium or "existential threat of AI" like Bernie Sanders talks about.
But this gets to the heart of the issue...people are worried AI is being used by companies to reduce their bargaining power, whether it works or not. As Trump has shown, the government actually can effectively pressure big companies when it wants to.
- does a beard make u look smarter? should i believe this guy?milfhunter
- He is the new oracleGabriel
- You should believe him, and also grow a beardyuekit
- sab7
34 years later and still amazing... chuck it on and have a listen.
- yuekit1
- chatGPT sucks balls now********
- only good for images********
- Claude is now so much better.NBQ00
- Seems like Opus 4.6 is the model people really liked. Opus 4.7 and GPT 5.5 are both good but something seems off?yuekit
- Gemini is the tits.jagara
- ChatGPT for copy/text, Gemini for images IMO. Haven't f**ked with Claude in a while...ideaist
- Anthropic just threw its hooks in Blender as well. They're claiming it's just a patreon thing, but they will eventually ruin it. Fuck AI.garbage
- chatGPT sucks balls now
