Spicy take: The older, slower path of developing ideas through canvas-based tools, paired with Claude Code for prototyping, is producing more intentional and better creative outcomes than these insanely over-processed AI workflows.

Fresh batch of design jobs at companies like @tryramp, @meetgranola and others Product Designer at Granola: app.onliftoff.com/s/9JcEWS Product Designer at Ramp: app.onliftoff.com/s/Kupvam Design Lead at Hanover Park: app.onliftoff.com/s/tSy2CT Lead Product Designer at Ami: app.onliftoff.com/s/2qyC1Z Founding Designer at Dot Product: app.onliftoff.com/s/qorQnv Creative Director at Graffeo Coffee: app.onliftoff.com/s/do8YuZ

New Tools for a New Era. Coding agents like Claude and Cursor have dramatically reduced the time it takes to go from idea to functional software. But the experience of designing and refining with them sucks. One reason for this is that while the terminal is an incredible tool for communicating direction with language, it is a terrible tool for defining and exploring visual and interactive objects. Here is one idea for how we might fix a small part of that. In the old world, when you wanted to create a transition or animation in your app, you would type some code, refresh your local server, and click to run your animation. It probably wasn't right, because after all no one can know what 'cubic-bezier(0.3, 0.05, 0.45, 1)' really feels like when you read it. You need to see it. Feel it. Interact with it in a real world context. So you'd edit some values, save, refresh, and keep guessing and checking until it felt right. Today, you can write a quick, single-use tool that's a visual studio for designing animations. You can then configure some components and containers common in all apps, and explore different animations in real time, adjusting key properties, and getting it just right. Then, you can copy a highly detailed prompt (or export a skill containing all your animations) that captures your intent and direction with perfect clarity. Paste this into your terminal and your agent instantly implements it everywhere. To me, this is an improvement over the old world, and a better way to work in today's. I'm extremely excited to see the ways in which our ability to rapidly create software will shape how we design software tomorrow. Feedback, ideas, and critiques welcome!

UI straight from 4o

You forgot that this is still created by you—your vision and thought made this happen. AI is just a tool to speed up the process, not replace your creativity.

Hey folks! Looking for your new gig? We're looking for a Customer Success Manager to come work with us on the @getstarkco team! Plz RT for visibility <3 getstarkco.notion.site/Custo…

can someone please, please introduce me to the likely genius product manager on this taco bell team? please. i must meet them. jweinstein@gmail.com

Hey design peeps, I am hiring a senior product designer to lead Netflix Games social features. This person will transform how you engage with family and friends via play on Netflix. Please RT, share. explore.jobs.netflix.net/car…

Adaptive UI at its finest. Ben is one of the legends @Frame_io

i made my book on design management into a tweet

Yahoo! Messenger for iPhone in 2010 #MobileAppHistory

being a doctor and saving lives is cool, but imagine being a software designer and saving someone 2 clicks in an on-boarding flow. heroes.

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Designers on their way to a Zoom call to say “no updates from me”

Got a lead on an amazing Senior Designer / Art Director role at a Series D company. Established product / culture but loads of room for impact on brand. Would be the most senior designer on the brand side, reporting to. Head of Design. DM me and I'll pass your details on!

Chips wins, they brought their Kettle game this season - and didn't make a meal out if it. Roasted fans were devastated as they were the favourite going into the bracket.

You know what would have been awesome? If they just repurposed the 2008 MacBook's battery indicator onto the Vision Pro battery, right now it's an enigma

🥨 It's live - bend your text into circle, square, triangle, or even arch shape with @figma curve text plugin! Perfect for designers looking to add a creative twist to their typography. figma.com/community/plugin/1…

Big news: The Best of Lenny's Newsletter—Volume 1 book is done, starting to ship globally 🥳🙌💥 The first batch of books is officially in production and pre-orders will be shipping over the next 2 weeks. We've already sold over $70,000 in pre-orders (all profits going to charity), and are halfway through our limited-edition run of 5,000 books. If you'd like to order some copies and help raise money for charity, grab your copy here: lennyswag.com/en-usd/product…

YO, honestly DM me, looking for product designers with good UI/UX/Visual chops, and a tech lead who understands front end/back end/ecommerce to jump aboard a speeding train