Nick Groeneveld

Progress bar animation I did for a golf course's onboarding flow.

@mrtylerwhite I remember that one!

Best hero section line I heard this week: "I help [your audience] tell a visual story customers fall in love with." Two lines. No buzzwords. I don't care what you do all day. I care what happens because you did it.

@BenjaminHouy I have thoughts!

People of X, I need your help! Exploring potential design directions for the upcoming Copycat Cafe mobile app. Which do you prefer and why? copycat-mobile-prod-vs-rehearsal-table-x.png

@nocodelife It just tries to be cool and it fails

If AI is trained on human writing, who exactly was writing phrases like "that’s the part worth sitting with."?

@louisnicholls_ You expecting twins? Congrats! Me too! We're 2-3 weeks from getting them

Calling parents of twins… If you were doing it all over again, what’s the first thing you’d buy without thinking? And the one purchase you’d avoid now you know better? Asking for a friend* (*my wife)

@louisnicholls_ Yeah true. Just have an opinion of your own!

I'd much rather read a unique, human insight written with AI than a human-written text that AI could have produced by itself.

@Wallage Beterschap!

@ToolboxOfDesign Ja, twee keer overgegeven. Twee uur geslapen en nu weer het mannetje.

No client work today… 🤒

@natmiletic The rounded colorful border makes me sick

“How do you know it’s an AI site?”

@forgebitz @promptwatch Lekker bezig!

don't know about ai replacing jobs but we are hiring many roles @promptwatch onsite (nyc and ams office) - senior account executive - account executive - senior growth marketer - gtm engineer (outbound) - data scientist - senior full-stack developer - design lead - growth marketer - customer success specialist link below

@joshpuckett I have the same. All I write, is written by me. Because human connection is important and we shouldn’t take shortcuts on being nice, decent communicators.

I'm pondering why I have such a violent, offensive reaction to AI writing or replies that are sent to me, yet I love and use it for many other things like writing coding. I think it has something to do with the fact that when I read something from one of you, I assume that you thought about it and wrote it yourself. And so then I am thoughtful in reading it, and crafting my own reply. When I write, it's really just manifesting a lot more thinking that I've done in an attempt to distill it into words. When I come across (with sadly increasing frequency) things that are clearly AI slop, it feels like a betrayal of trust or complete disregard for my time and thought. At the same time, I use AI regularly to create code for me (and by extension others) and I don't have nearly the same reaction at all. I wonder if it's in part because with coding, there's a long history of using and creating templates or frameworks that are in effect already shortcuts. But I think the bigger reason is just I'm not asking or suggesting that anyone read it, nor representing it as mine. Anyone else feeling this way?

@rob_trew @webflow Ah man that sucks, Robert! Have you considered rebranding to ‘website builder’ instead of ‘Webflow builder’? I’m sure you can do a better vibe code job than your non-designer clients who just… vibe, you know

Two clients in two days have 100% left @webflow I've lost 3 clients in 1 month now leaving Webflow all together. I know this is happening to other developers too. I'm now down min 4-5k in income per month. it's becoming much harder to sell Webflow to new clients these days.

@galluzzo_julian I think tech-y business owners will try this, but non-technical owners and/or businesses where content matters will not do it. Also, vibe coded websites will probably rebound back to people who are better skilled so they can fix the mess

I've seen this happen to a few agencies and freelancers already. Seems like people who work with fast moving tech companies is the constant - the people I know focusing on enterprise have more clients if anything, not less. Will the enterprises follow the fast movers? I think so, in the same way they followed them to Webflow - but, it will take a while.

@galluzzo_julian Whenever a lead requests a specific tool, it is because they already have their current website built using that tool. That’s the only reason. In all other cases, it is just designers fighting designers for the wrong reasons

We are having the wrong conversation about the tools we use and it benefits absolutely nobody besides companies who rely on you being locked into their platform. "my clients like Webflow" "Framer is easy for my clients" ... no. Your clients don't like Webflow or Framer. They don't care. They like being able to easily update the things on their site which matter to them. Here's the thing. Have you ever actually given a client the keys to a Webflow/Framer site and let them run wild? It's like giving a monkey a gun. They absolutely can, and will, destroy it. The same goes with giving your client access to Claude Code and your whole codebase. They WILL break it. With Webflow, you set up guardrails for your client. You build components. They don't like Webflow. They like the way which YOU set up their Webflow site. You can do the exact same thing with a headless CMS like Sanity. Build flexible components. Set up a page builder. Give the client power. At the end of the day, clients don't give a shit which tool you use. They care about flexibility, speed, and feeling in control - and that's up to YOU to give them - no tool does this out of the box.

@joshpuckett @sheherenow_ 1959?! 😝

@sheherenow_ Been a trend forever! Even back in 1959 when I played in college we’d get kids size shin guards.

this whole world cup is constant stoppages with players rolling around on the floor but also apparently everyone wears shin pads the size of postage stamps these days?

@borntype Yup

One thing were AI is really helpful is in creating little test environments for you to fine-tune your interactions. This one's for a client where I wanted to fine-tune the timing of a button's hover state animation. You put the current button's styling into Claude (Code), explain what you're trying to do, and how you'd like to be able to drag around certain values. Within seconds, you have your test environment up and running. You can just do things now. Toggles and all.

@joshpuckett Already am!

I know everyone's busy at Config, but just a reminder that you’ve got 12 hours left to join Interface Craft at 30% off. Are you in?

@galluzzo_julian Yep that seems reasonable. We’re all very emotional about it, especially if it hits you personally

@ToolboxOfDesign x.com/galluzzo_julia…

ok genuinely wtf do people have against data centers besides them being large and unsightly

@Shpigford I got a few Webflow maintenance leads just by commenting in certain channels. No ads, just me being there.

🌶️ nobody actually has success using reddit as a core marketing channel