krm01

Great article. I’ve been in the UI/UX space for years. Prior to that I studied gamedesign at uni and graduated engineer in art and tech. Principles of gamedesign always allowed me to solve ux problems in sometimes unusually delightful ways. One tiiiny example was a search function for a piece of software that was incredibly slow. The engineers couldnt get it to go any faster. I helped solve it with an old gamedesign technique, which is to add story to the loading screen. Just adding a fun animation and text on what’s happening helped decrease dropoff and increase delight. Now transitioned to more design and engineering allows me to own the full ux even more. [1]

[1] https://designshippers.com

Drop the s and p. Just law.

It’s cleaner.

This is pretty neat. What would be a good reason for the other Model providers to not do this?

Whatever they eat, did that go down to an all time low. Im m curious about the chain reaction vs an isolated result.

SH is in the wrong bucket

This is surprisingly useful. As I was imagining myself behind thr wheel I felt it was more clear as to when/where the next turn is. Probably because it combines top down flat with 3d spatial vs just one or the other. This was really good. I want it.

Sublime still feels like the most natural extension of the mind (when it comes to writing code by hand). Though, I use it mainly as a 2do list and notepad these days.

Right. Previously That’s the team of designers from 5y ago in a different business (no engineering)

No but 95% of whom we work with is.

Just Dutch

This happened once before (less dramatic but still) until at some point the prices came down crashing. I can’t see this holding for much longer.

Examples and ROI

Exactly right. Which is why I don’t use AI to design. I’m a designer. I use it to turn my designs into code. There’s too much slop out there.

We can throw benchmarks in the bin by now. Each one I've seen is heavily biased and skewed. It holds very little reliable data points (unfortunately)

that's a good signal. Not paying means the value isn't where it should be yet. Focus on that part.

Close circle. Make something for your friends/family/colleagues. The best first customers are those that, right now, are in your phone's address book.

Keeping track of any AI progress is becoming harder by the day, because there's ambiguity around common/clear/consistent benchmarks. Everything is constantly skewed into favourable directions.

You don’t use Ai to write code?

Claude surpassing OpenAI might well be simply because they ship things, faster.

What about city specific data? Is that equally/more/less valuable? At what scale do you think?

It’s sad to see companies not spending a bit more on design. Sure, ai will help you get something decent out fast. But there’s a threshold where design becomes an indicator of trust. Especially for b2b software that tailor to large corps. Good design, character, adds directly to the bottom line.

I wonder if there’s a breakdown of their top performing or fastest growing services. It’s interesting how they dont seem to promote the services that much yet are seeing tremendous growth.

Doesn’t math come down to =

The most annoying thing about llm’s is that your answer heavily depends on your prompt, less about understanding the question. This makes us all spend a lotnof time adding things to the question ‘dont donthis, avoid saying this again, etc’ and thus moving away from it feeling natural.

Will this mean that when cost is more important than latency that replies will now take longer?

I’m not in favor of the ad model chatgpt proposes. But business models like these suffer from similar traps.

If it works for them, then the logical next step is to convert more to use fast mode. Which naturally means to slow things down for those that didn’t pick/pay for fast mode.

We’ve seen it with iPhones being slowed down to make the newer model seem faster.

Not saying it’ll happen. I love Claude. But these business models almost always invite dark patterns in order to move the bottom line.

It’s actually a pretty big deal. I always wondered why they didnt compete with Adobe. Even when Steve Jobs was still around. 90%+ of Adobe users are on Macs.

Why though isn’t such a significant announcement on the Apple.com homepage?

I’ve tried just about every system for keeping my desktop tidy: folders, naming schemes, “I’ll clean it on Fridays,” you name it. They all fail for the same reason: the desktop is where creative work wants to spill out. It’s fast, visual, and forgiving. Cleaning it is slow, boring, and feels like admin.

Claude Cleaner, I mean Cowork will be sweeping my desktop every Friday.

Im sure itll be useful for more stuff but man…

Designer–engineer here. After 15 years building products [1] ,from scrappy side projects to multibillion-dollar platforms, I’ve found the most productive way to think about design is as a growth accelerant. The OP reaches a similar insight but keeps it in the realm of product development. That framing is precisely where the friction between engineering and design tends to arise. Design isn’t about making the code look nicer... it’s the bridge between engineering execution and business growth.

Take Dropbox’s much-debated rebrand. Many on HN dismissed it as superficial. What they missed is that Dropbox’s growth had plateaued. The new visual language wasn’t meant to "improve the product" for existing power users. it was engineered to make the product feel approachable to an audience the company had never reached. It worked.

When designers focus on the measurable business impact of their work—and engineers stop treating design as a decorative afterthought—cross-functional frictions fade and growth compounds.

[1] https://fairpixels.pro

Thanks for the feedback. Yes $50 = 1 logo (the one you end up liking/wanting to download). Im still figuring out the best business model that is the most fair while limiting potential abuse.

Makerspaces are fantastic. I've spent a bunch of time in a few in Amsterdam. The only thing that would make them better is a tiny more focus on the business side of making. I've seen amazing things being built, but if there's zero thinking spent on getting it in the hands of people, nobody can benefit from the amazing work that happens within those walls.