AI has raised the minimum standard of indie UI, while making one version of good design remarkably common.
Evolving Design Language in the AI Era: From Good to Great
Explore how the AI era reshapes design language, emphasizing objective critique over subjective opinions for successful outcomes.
A tale of two Agent Builders
What two competing solutions to the same design problem tell about the future of designing AI interfaces.
Popmelt — Design copilots for AI agents
Our Taste models encode design expertise and philosophy, giving AI agents instant access to a curated catalog of aesthetic knowledge. Unlike traditional templates and design systems, our imprints are AI-native and guided by universal principles. This means agents can apply them to any interface scenario, not just predefined layouts and elements. They're also customizable and extensible, letting you build quickly without falling into the cookie-cutter UI library trap.
Good design hasn’t changed with AI — John Pham, SF Compute
Beautiful UI — Crafted primitives for AI-native interfaces
A small library of extremely crafted, copy-paste components for chat agents, thinking states, human-in-the-loop approvals, and everything agents need to talk to humans beautifully.
"AI" is bad UX
teapot from the cover of Don Norman’s “The Design of Everyday Things” clumsily ‘shopped by me "AI" means bad UX There is an emergent strain of thought in...
I love AI, but it still can't design for shit
Without a critical human eye, AI produces slop. The quality bar is yours to maintain.
What We're No Longer Seeing: AI and the Invisible Newcomer in Open Source
How AI is absorbing the visible friction that open-source communities have always relied on to see—and welcome—newcomers.
AI experienced through AI co-created tools
AI co-created tools and social spaces as a new medium
Generative UI: The AI agent is the front end
In a new model for user interfaces, agents paint the screen with interactive UI components on demand. Let’s take a look.
How AI solves UI's biggest problem
Meet Foundry: An AI Startup that Builds, Evaluates, and Improves AI Agents
Our minds aren’t equipped to handle AI
AI is junk food for the mind: easy, tempting and ultimately very bad for you.
