There is a version of progressive patriotism that consciously rejects defining a specific utopian objective, and instead sees the steady march of progress over the course of generations as Real America’s history, legacy and duty. Permanent revolution, if you will.
this is roughly in line with what i call the globalization of design. in an attempt to appeal to everyone, design ends up tailored to no one in particular
To be clear: a huge part of the reason so many products have converged on the “empty chat box” is not just because it’s easy to use (or try using), but fundamentally *easy to implement*. You can get very far with very little design work because you are offloading the burden of designing a specialized UI to the intelligence of the model + good tools.
So a few things can be true at the same time: blank slate chat interfaces are easy to try, they handle a LOT of use cases very well, but their popularity can also be partially attributed to the fact that they solve many problems “well enough” but not necessarily optimally. It’s shortsighted to say all products will converge to this due to some fundamental design law - it’s more of a path of least resistance for imagination and engineering.
sweating design details via chat and getting anything automated on a canvas are both still painful. never having to touch figma’s cursed prototyping tooling again is nice tho
we’re like four years into “designing in code”and ide canvases still feel too clunky and canvas agents still too dumb. i want the fluidity of figma with the power of cc