Issue 553

Articles

From idea to interface: A designer’s guide to AI-powered prototyping
Tips for using AI tools to explore design ideas in high fidelity

Where AI is failing design systems, and where we are failing AI
until a model can guarantee the promises your system makes, AI is best treated as a collaborator that scaffolds, accelerates, and proposes, not a factory that ships.

Chat is: the Future or a Terrible UI
As the proliferation of AI-powered chat interfaces in software continues, people increasingly take one of two sides.

Designing Terrible Solutions Makes You a Better Designer
Applying the anchoring effect to design practice.

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Tools and Resources

Prompting Is A Design Act: How To Brief, Guide And Iterate With AI
Prompting is more than giving AI some instructions. You could think of it as a design act, part creative brief and part conversation design.

Version Control: How Figma Make Helped Us Figure Out Video Playback
Using Figma Make to prototype complex ideas when words alone fell short.

Onlook
Onlook is a next-generation visual code editor that lets designers craft web experiences with AI.

Stratify AI
An AI-powered user research platform.

Motion Software
Professional modern animated on Windows.

UX Portfolio

Eldar Gilmanov
Eldar is a recent graduate with a Masters in Design for Interactions from Carnegie Mellon University.

Last But Not Least

grug.design
grug make design. grug not know much. but grug know pain. grug try to avoid pain. grug learn over many fire-cycles.

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.””
— Confucius

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