neil shankar

designer / design eng, prev @blocks @google @cal

[neil shankar @tallneil]

love to see color extraction used for theming UIs.

we did this at 8tracks years ago. it makes the UI adapt to every piece of content (in our case, album art).

[neil shankar @tallneil]

@nizzyabi remember the information cutoff

[neil shankar @tallneil]

@LottieFiles is this a speculative animation or official?

[neil shankar @tallneil]

AGI

[neil shankar @tallneil]

@saribmah @dillon_mulroy compose is for power users

[neil shankar @tallneil]

@pitdesi that won't be far from Besharam and Rooh

[neil shankar @tallneil]

@chum94555 @pitdesi agreed, Noor in Berkeley is great

[neil shankar @tallneil]

@theShaneLevine I'm confused about how to use this. Some components seem droppable / standalone, but others have dependencies that aren't on the site. Most/all components use CSS vars that aren't defined. Is this meant to be more of a showcase than a component library?

[neil shankar @tallneil]

@SnazzyLabs same here

[neil shankar @tallneil]

@zendadddy an homage to BART

[neil shankar @tallneil]

@deedydas @joinautopilot

[neil shankar @tallneil]

@henrl @rexsalisbury so it seems several things would stop you, per your original tweet

[neil shankar @tallneil]

@TokeMalone @alexkaplan0 lmao

[neil shankar @tallneil]

@faisalyaqub @akothari @Galkon Workspace switching is painful on desktop. For some reason, workspace is assigned at the tab level, not the window level. New tab = roll the dice on which workspace it will choose.

[neil shankar @tallneil]

@caityweaver a spiritual successor to the best thing ever written

[Rasmus Andersson @rsms]

This is really neat but it’s not a design tool as much as it’s a design _production_ tool.

The practice of design is mostly about what comes before production.

There’s no doubt in my mind that all parts of software production will become automated very soon. Writing code, making web pages, putting pieces of a design system together etc.

And that’s fine. I think few people actually enjoy this kind of production work. Wouldn’t it be better if we spent our precious time in life on what is more meaningful?!

At the core, the practice of design is methodical; like architecture, not like art. In a nutshell: We find constraints, form comprehension of the whole and propose solutions that honor those constraints. First after that do we enter some form of production phase, usually prototypes first, learn about some constraints that were hidden before, loop back, prototype and then build the production-grade “final” artifact.

These last few tasks are quickly losing value because AI tools can do it much faster (not yet better though) than humans. It’s simply just what has the best RoI for a business.

Some companies and individuals will continue to spend human time on certain parts of the “production line” as a market differentiator, but it will cost them a relatively high price compared to competitors.

Anyhow, I still haven’t seen a tool better than Figma that supports the actually-interesting part of the design process.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Figma focused their products on that, maybe separating “products for production” of “products for ideation & exploration.” The latter would obviously still leverage AI, but not to do the work for me but rather to support my efforts the way a therapist helps me live a better life (not living my life for me.)

[neil shankar @tallneil]

@brandur rookie numbers

[Ranju @whatRanjuSaid]

gaslighting as a service (GaaS)

[neil shankar @tallneil]

@pqoqubbw first practical use case i’ve seen

[michelle @michellechen]

my entire feed is just

[neil shankar @tallneil]

@holman @trq212 brilliant idea, let’s call it a wlog