I do a lot of UI work, and like a lot of people lately I've been letting an AI agent take the first pass. Point it at a Figma file, let it write the components, come back to something that's 90% there. On a good day that's a huge time save. The problem is the other 10%, and where it hides. It's never an obvious break. It's the padding that's 12px instead of 16. A font weight that's 500 where the …
🗓️ This Week Completed one section of the SwiftUI tutorial 🦾 Since I want to continue through the tutorial until I can build the app for testing and run it on an actual iPhone , I’ll focus on that from next week. I also wrote another standalone article this week. It was about my experience experimenting with Codex and Figma MCP to see how much UI design work I could delegate to AI 📝 If you're int…
Claude Design Tool vs Figma: What Actually Changed and When to Use Each Claude's new Design capability is generating a lot of "Figma killer" takes. Most of them are wrong in both directions — it's neither a Figma replacement nor a toy. Here's an honest breakdown of what it actually does, what it doesn't do, and when to reach for each. What Claude Design Actually Does Claude Design generates React…
How to Break into UI Design: Design Skills That Make You Irreplaceable by AI
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