Ramiro Ruiz

Designer & Digital Builder
Semi-retired Pro Fighter
Non-stop learner
Family man

[Ramiro Ruiz @ramiroruiz]

@Joshua_Ariza Well whynotboth.gif

I was always chasing freelance work on nights and weekends. That hunger helped because I never specialized early on. Any design or web project was “sure, I can do that.” I learned on the fly, built broad skills, and got great at managing clients.

[Ramiro Ruiz @ramiroruiz]

> low AI adoption among designers might be self-preservation, I mean something more than protecting our job. I mean preserving the idea that design is a thinking discipline, not an output one.

https://t.co/536cUQGFi2

[Ramiro Ruiz @ramiroruiz]

Spent hours trying to integrate AI into a freelance branding project.

Final direction came from pen and paper.

The tools are still pretty bad at this kind of work.

[Ramiro Ruiz @ramiroruiz]

Helping plan my kid's entrepreneur week and most parents just want the simplest, most generic product so they can move on.
Mismatched drive is what makes team projects a nightmare.

[Ramiro Ruiz @ramiroruiz]

Design done with defaults and prompts is already detected miles away.

The difference between designers will be the discipline of continuing to do the work, without shortcuts.

[David Lapadat @david_lapadat]

@yourgirlhils Most people think the model is the problem. It’s not. The problem is when your own standard for “good enough” quietly becomes whatever the model defaults to.

[Ramiro Ruiz @ramiroruiz]

It is incredible how after so many years the figure of Michael Jackson as an artist continues to attract new generations, children imitating his footsteps, screams and outfits. There really hasn't been anything like it.

[Ramiro Ruiz @ramiroruiz]

The weirdest flex right now is "I one-shotted this with AI."

Cool. So can a stranger who types a similar sentence.

It means the output required zero judgment and zero editing. You skipped the part that makes it yours. The work is everything that happens after the first result.

[Ramiro Ruiz @ramiroruiz]

Local coffee shop ended up blocking the electric outlets they setup initially to avoid people staying working.

While I can see how holding a table for long spans of time is a problem. I believe there should be better ways to handle people that say for long without consuming.

[Ramiro Ruiz @ramiroruiz]

I cleanup the image but all the credit to @HanchungLee and his amazing post https://t.co/dJTZ2rXzb0

[Ramiro Ruiz @ramiroruiz]

Current status

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@4eug_ These are the kind of things I love in personal websites 👏

Looks amazing!

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@ryry__mimi Great post, I’m also working non-stop at my company to give people the tools to help them in this new era.

[Ramiro Ruiz @ramiroruiz]

There’s also an assumption that users know exactly what they need and can articulate it clearly. We know that’s not true.

The sweet spot is probably 80% well-designed UI for everyday tasks, 20% AI for the long tail.

But that’s not the future of software.
That’s a good feature.

[Ramiro Ruiz @ramiroruiz]

Generative UI is getting hyped as the future of software and it’s starting to feel like “voice will kill screens” all over again.

[Ramiro Ruiz @ramiroruiz]

If every user sees a different interface:
- How does support work?
- How do you write help docs?

People actually like standards. You learn one app and carry that muscle memory to the next. That’s not a limitation, that’s how humans work.

[Ramiro Ruiz @ramiroruiz]

@sebdedeyne In my experience, gemini has better UI instincts. That's when I switch to cursor to make gemini do a UI pass for quick things. Instead of keep correcting Claude for UI changes.

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@ormanclark I just asked Claude to add some “design”

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I pulled GitHub data expecting to see the AI coding boom.

Not much changed.
Until last month.

Last years AI helped us write code.
Now agents help everyone create software.

[Ramiro Ruiz @ramiroruiz]

@linuz90 Love people building their own version of heavy used apps. This one looks very similar to @BearNotesApp wondering if you try it or what differences it has.