The AI Can't See What It Drew
Originally published on hexisteme notes . A while back I wrote about why your vibe-coded app looks worse than you expect. That post diagnosed the caus…
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When generation is free, taste is everything
When the machine produces execution for free, and infinitely, value moves to the one thing it can't do: knowing what's worth making. Taste stops being…
I built a vector topographic contour map generator for designers (SVG export)
Hey everyone! 👋 As a designer, I constantly needed high-quality vector topographic contour lines and generative patterns for branding, UI hero backgro…
Better Problems: The Power of Abstraction
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Watching or Working
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Agent's Design — design resources built for Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, v0, Bolt & Lovable
Stop shipping the same AI-generated UI If you use Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, v0, Bolt, or Lovable, you've seen it: Inter everywhere purple-to-indigo …
Top 5 AI UI Design Tools in 2026: I Tested Them All With the Same Prompt
Looking for the best AI UI design tool in 2026? I tested Flowstep, Google Stitch, Figma Make, Lovable, and Base44 with the exact same SaaS project man…
Design or Debug
A Familiar Frustration It’s 4 p.m. on a Friday, and I’ve spent the day working on a new high-priority feature. We discussed the requirements over emai…
How I'd Design a Provenance Card for Web Content
I've been playing with a small browser-side prototype that tries to answer a boring but increasingly important question: Where did this piece of web c…
What the Compactor Found
A developer fixes a critical bug alone at 2 AM. The commit is there. The three hypotheses ruled out before finding the real cause — the hour of reason…
I catalogued every tell that makes a UI look AI-generated. My own tool kept failing the test.
You can always tell when an AI built a UI. You can't always say why . I maintain StyleSeed — an open-source set of design rules that Claude Code, Curs…
🚀 Just launched a new web project — HKMC Builders & Developers Website 🏗️✨
Excited to share my latest development work: 🌐 https://hkmcbuildersanddevelopers.com/ I designed and developed a modern, responsive website experience…
What I keep seeing working with crypto companies under MiCA
I run brand and product work for crypto and fintech companies, and this year the same request keeps landing on my desk, worded slightly differently ea…
Collect client feedback on a website without endless revision rounds
Most revision rounds don't spiral because the client is picky. They spiral because the feedback lost context on the way to you. Here's why that happen…
Motivational Light: What Stage Lighting Teaches UX Designers
Theatrical lighting designers have a working vocabulary for the decision UX teams still argue about in the language of quality. Discoverability is a d…
The Export Button Is a Consent Boundary
Report-preparation resource: doctor visit pain summary template In sensitive apps, the export button is not just a feature. It is a boundary. If you w…
Building devdevbuilds: where backend development meets design
Building devdevbuilds: combining backend projects, cybersecurity learning, and design assets I’m starting to use DEV Community as a place to document …
From Idea to App Store Screenshots Without a Designer
You built the app. It works. Then you open App Store Connect and it asks for screenshots, and you realize the thing standing between you and "submit" …
The Great Language Smackdown: 54 Languages Through the IVP Lens
Methodology note: This article is a product of GenAI. The methodology imposed online research for generation, then multiple rounds of adversarial revi…
From Idea to App Store Screenshots That Convert — Without a Designer
You finished the app. You wrote the description. Then you hit the part nobody warns you about: the store listing wants screenshots, and not raw phone …
How to Design a Mobile App With AI: The Full Workflow (Start to Finish)
I can design and build a real mobile app in an afternoon now. Not a toy. Something I'd actually put on the store. The part that changed was design. I'…
The Evolution of Circuit Compression
Miniaturization replaced the tube with the transistor. The currency of compromise changed from watts of heater power to milliwatts of leakage and diss…
System Design - 17. Service Discovery & Service Mesh: How Thousands of Services Find Each Other
Covers: Client-Side vs Server-Side Discovery, Service Registries, Service Mesh (Istio/Envoy), Kubernetes DNS The Problem That Didn't Exist in the Mono…
Exotic CRTP: Enforcing Access-Controlled CRTP with C++23 Explicit Object Parameters
Polymorphism, Rethought at Compile-Time In this article, we will explain how the features of C++23 are revolutionizing the philosophy of static polymo…
We’ve built a local-first App Store screenshot native Mac tool where the project file is a plain JSON
Hi, My name is Andrew. For the last few months, we’ve been working on Screenshot Bro, a native Mac app for designing, localizing, and uploading App St…
Cross-Cultural UX: Designing SaaS Interfaces for Global Users
A SaaS interface that works well for US users may confuse or alienate users in China, Germany, or Japan. Cultural differences affect everything from l…
Why your Figma files are slow and how to clean them up 🚀
Do you ever feel like your Figma file is moving in slow motion? I’ve been there. After a few weeks of intense design work, even the most powerful mach…
## The Expertise Paradox: Seeing Differently, Not Just Knowing More
The Expertise Paradox: Seeing Differently, Not Just Knowing More Research across domains reveals a consistent pattern: experienced practitioners recog…
I Built an All-in-One AI Image Studio for Creators and Developers (Free to Try)
Show DEV: I Built z-image-ai.run — An All-in-One AI Image Studio for Creators & Developers Hey DEV community! 👋 As a developer and indie hacker, I…
How I Built a Cinematic Scroll Experience with GSAP and ScrollTrigger
Most websites work. They load. They respond. They show the right content. But many of them still feel static, generic, and forgettable. I wanted to ex…