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After running it for half an hour: it's incredibly good at the visual aspects of UI design.

tsunamifury 4mo ago
"incredibly" is doing a ton of work here. I do not think its doing even moderate work on visual design, but it can spew out a lot of ui that looks arranged ... ok. This is still not in the range of shippable UI for top end companies. Maybe for internal tools and enterprise. At our comapny we limit to protoypes at most and even find it limited there.
- InsideOutSanta 4mo ago
  > "incredibly" is doing a ton of work here. Look, I don't want to argue about something dumb like that, but you can give it basic instructions of what the UI should look like, how to group things, and an example image from a designer, and it will nail the result. If you don't think that's incredible, that's fine. I do.
  - tsunamifury 4mo ago
    Yes... it translates lint. Probably a more useful thing, if mechanical.
- coldtea 4mo ago
  >This is still not in the range of shippable UI for top end companies. Given the shit we've seen shipped by "top end companies" (all the way to Apple) I seriously doubt that. I'd say you're nitpicking from an artistic point of view or something.
  - tsunamifury 4mo ago
    [flagged]
    - angoragoats 4mo ago
      The iOS Preview app begs to differ.
    - coldtea 4mo ago
      Dude, I've been using OS X/mac OS for decades, and working in UI as well. Apple ships all kinds of half arsed shit, compared to which even regular Claude UIs can be masterpieces (functionality AND look wise).
  - jasondigitized 4mo ago
    This. Today's models easily jump over the bar you need for basic usability and intuitive UX. If it's doing weird things, you are holding it wrong.
    - 8n4vidtmkvmk 4mo ago
      Might need some additional prompting? I haven't tried fable but gpt 5.5 and gemini 3.5 flash are... Ok on first pass but if you're specific about what you want they can usually get it.
  - calvinmorrison 4mo ago
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    - mdgld 4mo ago
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- verisimilidude 4mo ago
  Claude is very good at design IF you encode your design system/specs into skill files (or similar). Opus 4.7 made this a practical approach. 4.8 improved it. Fable 5 has improved it more.
- _3u10 4mo ago
  > "incredibly" is doing a ton of work here. so this is why claude talks like this, i was wondering where it was getting this verbal tick from.
- jasondigitized 4mo ago
  By what measure?
beeandapenguin 4mo ago
By what measure? I wonder how much of design capability improvements is related to our collective ability to recognize AI design tropes.

"incredibly" is doing a ton of work here. I do not think its doing even moderate work on visual design, but it can spew out a lot of ui that looks arranged ... ok. This is still not in the range of shippable UI for top end companies. Maybe for internal tools and enterprise. At our comapny we limit to protoypes at most and even find it limited there.

InsideOutSanta 4mo ago
> "incredibly" is doing a ton of work here. Look, I don't want to argue about something dumb like that, but you can give it basic instructions of what the UI should look like, how to group things, and an example image from a designer, and it will nail the result. If you don't think that's incredible, that's fine. I do.
- tsunamifury 4mo ago
  Yes... it translates lint. Probably a more useful thing, if mechanical.
coldtea 4mo ago
>This is still not in the range of shippable UI for top end companies. Given the shit we've seen shipped by "top end companies" (all the way to Apple) I seriously doubt that. I'd say you're nitpicking from an artistic point of view or something.
- tsunamifury 4mo ago
  [flagged]
  - angoragoats 4mo ago
    The iOS Preview app begs to differ.
  - coldtea 4mo ago
    Dude, I've been using OS X/mac OS for decades, and working in UI as well. Apple ships all kinds of half arsed shit, compared to which even regular Claude UIs can be masterpieces (functionality AND look wise).
- jasondigitized 4mo ago
  This. Today's models easily jump over the bar you need for basic usability and intuitive UX. If it's doing weird things, you are holding it wrong.
  - 8n4vidtmkvmk 4mo ago
    Might need some additional prompting? I haven't tried fable but gpt 5.5 and gemini 3.5 flash are... Ok on first pass but if you're specific about what you want they can usually get it.
- calvinmorrison 4mo ago
  [flagged]
  - mdgld 4mo ago
    [dead]
verisimilidude 4mo ago
Claude is very good at design IF you encode your design system/specs into skill files (or similar). Opus 4.7 made this a practical approach. 4.8 improved it. Fable 5 has improved it more.
_3u10 4mo ago
> "incredibly" is doing a ton of work here. so this is why claude talks like this, i was wondering where it was getting this verbal tick from.
jasondigitized 4mo ago
By what measure?

beeandapenguin 4mo ago

By what measure? I wonder how much of design capability improvements is related to our collective ability to recognize AI design tropes.