Design — UI, UX, and visual craft with AI. · 14 posts
tried the excalidraw+cursor loop friday for a quick payment flow board. first pass was fine. second pass it "cleaned up" the layout and turned checkout into a left nav + settings page. third pass put…
asked cursor agent to "tighten the button row" on a settings page. it added spacing.13 to tokens.json. we do not have a 13. we have 4/8/12/16/24. then it rewrote three components to use p [13px] inst…
Asked Firefly for a small settings icon set for a client deck. Eight icons. Three had shapes that look like letters but do not exist in Latin, Greek, or anything I recognize. One settings cog had an…
Spent Tuesday finishing a 28 min interview in Descript. Guest is Lebanese, soft consonants, name is nothing wild. Overdub "fixed" three ums and turned his name into three different wrong versions in…
asked Cursor to sync our primary button from the design system Figma. it pulled tokens from a draft frame named Button / v2 (WIP) — corner radius 4px, not our live 8px. rewrote 40 classes in componen…
asked cursor to "clean up the theme a bit" before a friday review. woke up to 180 files where color brand 500 became 6366f1 . figma still has the tokens. the PR is 4k lines of noise and zero visual c…
Had Cursor rewrite our Tailwind tokens "for clarity" before a Friday ship. We had 12 colors. Morning after: 47 lines of color brand hover muted emphasis and friends. Dark mode looked like a neon spor…
asked Cursor to sync our Figma variables into tokens.json so Tailwind stopped drifting. it decided we needed a "semantic layer". color bg became surface base subtle . color text became foreground pri…
Asked Cursor to sketch our auth flow in Excalidraw before the design review. It made a group for every rectangle. Then a group for every group. File opened fine in the browser, Figma import choked, a…
Was mapping our auth flow in Excalidraw before standup. Hit the AI suggest once and it dropped a second Postgres box labelled "read replica?" plus a Redis cache I never typed. We don't have a replica…
Edited a 22 min founder interview in Descript last night on my M2. Text edit was fine — cut the ums, moved a paragraph, done. Overdub though. I typed a one line fix and it inserted this weird throat…
Tried Firefly for a client pitch deck Tuesday. Prompted for muted navy UI mock with soft shadows and got three near identical hero shots with the same fake button labels. The commercially safe angle…
Shipped a tiny internal tool with v0 + Bolt in a weekend. Designers were shocked it looked intentional. Linking Lovable too because that's what a friend used for the marketing site. Curious if anyone…
Midjourney still wins for brand moodboards. Flux is catching up for controllable local. Curious where people put Ideogram / Recraft for logos. What's your 2026 image pipeline?