@LukeW

Humanizing tech. MD: Sutter Hill Ventures Founder: Polar (Google acquired) Bagcheck (Twitter acquired) Wrote: Mobile First, Web Form Design Pre: NCSA eBay Yahoo

 Los Gatos, CA
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design teams have spent years trying to get people to actually read their design system documentation. agents can read them every single time they write code. new article on design systems for agents: lukew.com/ff/2164/design-sys…

LukeW | Design Systems for AI Agents

For as long as I've been working on design systems (20+ years, oof!), I've seen the same pattern play out... design teams invest a lot of time in creating a sys...

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Odin
@JoinOdinOct 25
The Top 50 VC Firms Ranked by the long-term value created by primary investments per dollar at risk. The top 10: 1. @shv 2. @foundersfund 3. @iaventures 4. @gigafund 5. @Lowercase 6. @pelion_vp 7. @usv 8. @benchmark 9. @BessemerVP 10. @DFJvc Read more: blog.joinodin.com/p/the-top-…
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people buying the outcome (it drives me places) not the tool (a car) will impact lots more products esp. software. at a high level, this is how AI upends existing companies.
Elon Musk
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People are buying FSD with a car attached, not the other way around
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why this matters for software: lukew.com/ask/?daily=2026-10…
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iPhone Duo for reading comics.👌
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in the flesh.
Luke Wroblewski
@LukeWOct 23
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happy Duo day to those celebrating. intentapp.dev/duo

Intent on Duo - Your agents just entered the fold.

Explore Intent on Duo with an interactive foldable preview. See how Intent Mobile helps you monitor agents, create workspaces, and review changes on the go.

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agents do a lot (reasoning, tool use, delegation, monitoring, etc.). how much of that work do you show people in your app's UI? made a tool to try out different designs, tweak details, and animate them: intentapp.dev/agentwork
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you can also share any design you make. like: intentapp.dev/agentwork#scen…

Showing the work of agents in UI — Intent

Compare ways to show agent tool calls and messages in the Intent chat UI.

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hello, hello. hundreds of agents.
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happy Duo day to those celebrating. intentapp.dev/duo

Intent on Duo - Your agents just entered the fold.

Explore Intent on Duo with an interactive foldable preview. See how Intent Mobile helps you monitor agents, create workspaces, and review changes on the go.

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for those who want a robust working design system for agents example... we just updated: intentapp.dev/design-system

Design System — Intent

Intent logos, colors, typography, iconography, foundations, and components.

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Luke Wroblewski
@LukeWOct 5
design teams have spent years trying to get people to actually read their design system documentation. agents can read them every single time they write code. new article on design systems for agents: lukew.com/ff/2164/design-sys…

LukeW | Design Systems for AI Agents

For as long as I've been working on design systems (20+ years, oof!), I've seen the same pattern play out... design teams invest a lot of time in creating a sys...

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AI is an ideal denial of service attack against bureaucrats.
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now with data: 75% of all new deliveries included full self driving subscriptions, up from 55% in Q2 2026 xitter.cf/SawyerMerritt/status/2…
Luke Wroblewski
@LukeWSep 24
it's under appreciated how much unlimited tokens is a draw for top-tier talent.
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20 years of the iOS camera app.
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all our AI-native companies are wrestling with these agentic software design/UI needs: - tracking what's happening (many agents) lukew.com/ff/2165/many-agent… - showing what got done (by agents) lukew.com/ff/2142/showing-th… - keeping design coherent (agent instructions) lukew.com/ff/2164/design-sys… - multi-player & collaboration (people+ agents) lukew.com/ff/2153/collaborat… - asset creation tools (agent workflows) lukew.com/ff/2146/consistent…
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and as @Wattenberger reminded me... window management. everyone is searching for the best tabs, panels, canvas, sidebar approach. aka re-thinking the SaaS shape.
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why? more is being produced by agents faster (docs, images, code). where/how to display it all? hence windowing solutions. still a fan of this approach which results in a thread of results only, not process.
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a personal AI is only as good as its content. bunch of ways I improved mine: - voice-aware transcription to recognize me - real-time indexing of new tweets - audio & video timestamps to jump to right moments - vision model to describe PDFs and images - hourly indexing of new content - and more: lukew.com/ff/2168/ask-lukew-…

LukeW | Ask LukeW: Instant Content Indexing

The Ask LukeW feature on my website has been answering people's questions about digital product design for over three years. How well it answers depends on the ...

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example of how this improves answers: How are AI interfaces evolving beyond chat toward agents? lukew.com/ask?id=668be2d2-74…

Ask LukeW: How are AI interfaces evolving beyond chat toward agents?

In just a few years, AI products have moved through four distinct stages: models behind the scenes powering features, then people talking directly to models…

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new in Intent today: - group work by detailed status - paste images into agent answers - reuse sent messages - global Assistant can add & check MCP servers - global Assistant can manage your chats - provider CLI version warnings - long chats open faster - plus fixes & polish in release notes: intentapp.dev/updates
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after circling back to rounded buttons 10 years ago, iOS calculator design has had a decade of consistency since.
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