Hey HN! I built this solo.
You can check it out here: https://loopem.tahazsh.com/
This idea had been lingering in my head for a long time. I kept thinking about the best way to turn the idea of a picker into a math problem, where I could describe the layout I want and it would just work.
By pickers, I mean something like what `<select>` does in HTML, but with more visual items, whether they are i…
What Happened A Show HN thread titled "What should the GUI for AI agents look like?" sparked debate among developers, designers, and ops engineers. The post displayed mock‑ups and asked for feedback on layout, interaction, and the trade‑off between low‑code flexibility and technical depth. Contributors favored node‑based canvases, timeline views, and form‑driven panels. They also warned about sca…
When tasked with building a highly interactive, tactile web experience, the architecture must serve the art direction. In this article, Alexey Kopytin explains their architectural rationale for building a digital stress-relief squeeze toy game using Lottie animations, DOM events, and distance-based math to maintain absolute control over their designers’ intentional motion.
While large language models (LLMs) and coding agents are often applied to user interface (UI) development, developers find it difficult to reliably assess their proficiency in visual and interaction design. Existing evaluations either rely on human experts, who can accurately assess usability by testing critical flows but are slow and costly, or on automated judges, which are scalable but less ac…
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…
Poorly handled session timeouts are more than a technical inconvenience. They can become serious accessibility barriers that interrupt essential online tasks, especially for people with disabilities. Here is how to implement thoughtful session management that improves usability, reduces frustration, and helps create a more accessible and respectful web.
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…
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