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The next skill for designers isn't better prompting, it's splitting work across agents like an art director briefs a team. Who gets the layout, who gets the copy, who only checks the details.
Hard to believe this is flat vectors and shaders.
Feed the fish 🎏 @rive_app
All 2D vectors and shaders. The koi are a handful of drawings, bendable with the new mesh on components.
Do you learn more rebuilding a reference by hand than prompting your way to something close?
I rebuild interactions to get the easing right, because that's where i actually learn the feel. but AI gets me 80% in minutes and the last 20% is where i keep second-guessing the hand-rebuild
Genuinely curious where other people draw the line 👀
Do you learn more through rebuilding a reference by hand than prompting your way to something close?
I rebuild interactions to get the easing right, because that's where I actually learn the feel. But AI gets me 80% in minutes and the last 20% is where I keep second guessing the hand rebuild.
Genuinely curious where other people draw the line 👀
Half of rebrand posts are 12 mockups and zero system. A logo against a flower field proves nothing. Show me the rules, and where they break, that's the actual brand.
I redesign my own site every few months and never launch it. Client work ships fine, my own taste is the worst client i've had.
Roy retweeted
One of the tricks I picked up from working at Google is a very simple way to make sure your interface feels on-brand:
Start with the core brand colour.
Let's say it's blue.
You create a palette of blue shades from light to dark, almost white to almost black, all with a blue tint.
The text isn't just pure white.
It's a very light blue.
The background isn't pure black.
It's a very dark blue.
Using these throughout the core elements will create an almost unnoticeable but present brand 'feeling' through the interface.
It works especially well for trading interfaces where the positive/negative colours can easily dominate, making it hard to incorporate your brand without it being jarring.
This technique works perfectly for any product and industry.
And if you're building with AI, you can just prompt it in:
"Take my brand's base colour and generate a tinted scale from near-white to near-black. Use those tints for every background, surface, border and text colour in the interface instead of pure greys."
Designers, do you keep your brand rules in a reusable skill file or just re-paste them into each chat?
Sad to hear such scams are still happening in 2026
ABSOLUTELY SHAMELESS.
Julia contacted me to work for @yourpersona and mentioned they were looking to hire full-time.
After our call, she took many days to reply. I assumed she was busy, so I let time pass.
Then she came back with a project and said:
“We changed it to make it easier and less time consuming. To preface, it won’t be paid (I wanted to be clear, since I mentioned that in our last call), since we just want fast work so we can speed up the hiring process. We love your work!”
Two things:
1. She never mentioned it wouldn’t be paid on our last call, but I didn’t think much of it.
2.She said she wants to speed up the hiring process.
I worked hard on the project. It took me 2-3 hours, on top of a 24-hour deadline for another client, because I wanted to make a good first impression. I submitted it and waited. I knew I did well, and I was confident my designs were better than anyone’s.
I waited patiently for days. Then she sent this:
“Hey, I have an update! The team thinks you’re a great designer and we would love to work with you, we’re just a little too early to expand right now. We’d love to stay in touch and reconnect in a month or two! I’ll hit you up then :)”
Mind you, she said they wanted to hire fast. Now they’re “a little too early to expand”? And she went on to post this engagement farming post.
Why is she posting this when she’s already “found” me? The team supposedly thinks I’m great and would love to work with me.
I contacted a few friends here on X who have viral posts like mine. They got the exact same message from her.
If you’re not ready to expand, why ask for a free trial and promise a full-time role? And why are you now shamelessly posting this to get people to do more free work and hand over more free ideas for your app?
Shipped 4 websites and a macOS app today. Two freelance clients on top of that.
Most productive I've ever been 🤘
What's the most you've shipped at once?