Onur Oztaskiran

Design since 2002. Not replaced by AI yet.

Past: Design @BandLab → Design @Automattic(2021) → Founding Design @Get_Writer(2017) →Founding Designer @Udemy(2011)

[Onur Oztaskiran @onuro]

Yet another weekend play:
Tarkan: An image generator of your own, with precise image generation using your Nano Banana account.

Ultra fast(because backend is @convex ) and a total joy to use. Built this in 6 hours w @claudeai & @convex

Oh and it's open source. Steal it! https://t.co/fVji71SOWo

[Onur Oztaskiran @onuro]

- Dashboard design: Dead -> AI does it now
- Landing site design: Dead -> AI does it now

So what's not dead?
Creativity and vision: You're still the designer, either building blocks of layers in Figma and/or prompt your way thru AI.

Design is a skill, not a mathematical task

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@rudrastyh A "designer" to and prompt to AI :) Not engineer

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Anthropic has a problem:
- The Claude app is the world's worst UX/UI for working w AI
- Claude only lets you use your Claude Code subscription properly on Claude app only

Conclusion: Claude is unusable. They need a designer. A real one.

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@uiux_harshit Cursor

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Design@X feels 2018 to me now.

I design only in Cursor lately, and do animations w Remotion via prompts, not AE.

I'd highly recommend any designer to embrace AI to be 2026 ready—find jobs, showcase AI driven portfolio. Because you have to be.

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@koraybirand @siyahsancakx Yvsk

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Confirming this:

For anything that's not ultra complex, @cursor_ai Composer 2.5 outperforms anything, I mean ANYTHING. And it's ultra fast.

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Claude ile vedalasmadan onceki son kavgamiz.

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Claude is this bad now, and he knows it. Lets go open source models!

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@waynesutton @convex btw I completely agree on "who the F ever booked anything with AI". I also don't get why folks keep pushing that junk.

In here, our local "craiglist" now has AI. Asks me what ride I'm looking for. And it's so bad I can find the vehicle I want 10x faster than asking AI.

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@waynesutton @convex Mike is best.

Miki here is known as "I didn't pee in my sleep, Miki did(Mickey the mouse)".

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Recent observation with the companies/startups I've noticed:

- Marketing teams no longer seek a designer involvement for tasks like decks, presentations or data visualization. AI makes it for them, and it's good enough for them
- Most people just ask AI to design/build landings for them, and it's good enough for them.

Which makes real designers more valuable, for things AI just slops generic crap, or when "it's not good enough".

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@mikemcalister You're doing the whole of Automattic's job all by yourself(and better) man :)) Kudos!

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@alire8za @convex Hi yes it's open source https://t.co/5iOl4AUq5G

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A little rant on CloudFlare's EmDash vs what I've been able to pull off on 3 weekends with @convex

TLDR:
It's 2026. If you're a billion dollar company and going to open source against another open source that's 40% of the internet, work a bit, yeah?

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@rudrastyh @SethRubenstein as well so many stuff as how WP is great :)

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@rudrastyh @SethRubenstein Sorry if it did look like that! My X past is hundreds of tweets related to how WP will eventually miss the train and we should be doing something about

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@rudrastyh @SethRubenstein No, still an enthusiast but so many things are "too late" it no longer matters.