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Maggie Appleton
@maggieappleton.com

Someone pointed out dark mode didn't work on my website (a huge oversight!). Claude implemented dark mode in <10 mins. But the diagrams in my latest post still looked weird since I designed them on light backgrounds. But they're SVGs so it was easy to prompt a bit more and get dark/light versions

randito1.bsky.social
@randito1.bsky.social

re: your diagrams. Are you having any luck coaxing AI to build UI, diagrams, etc in a style you like? You have an impressive eye for design, flow, art fundamentals (jealous!).. but how are you coaxing the AI into what you want. TLDR: How is your AI driven design going?

Maggie Appleton
@maggieappleton.com

Sadly no progress getting agents to help at all with diagrams. They just don't have the fundamental understanding of direction, space, graphic shapes, etc. to be useful. Had to do all mine by hands. For UI stuff I have a tight set of rules / an existing design system for them to work off

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Maggie Appleton
@maggieappleton.com

But honestly even within an existing design system I still find using agents for visual design extremely painful. Trying to be like "make the spacing nicer" or "add a subtle shadow" always ends up with awful results. End up old school hand-coding values because it's 10x faster

randito1.bsky.social
@randito1.bsky.social

when bootstrap, tailwind, etc first came out, the forward-thinkers were predicting that everything would look the same in the future. i think that's even more true with AI generated UIs. maybe it's time to bring back the crazy UIs. (i.e. winamp skins). great chat.. thanks for sharing!

randito1.bsky.social
@randito1.bsky.social

Thank you for your reply.. I'm kind of thankful that design and hand-coding still matters. Also, your "why you have an ipad and still can't draw" is soooo me. hahaha. Have a good rest of your day.