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Pulled Norman off the shelf this week. New tools ship daily, Google Stitch, Claude Design, whatever lands tomorrow. Each promises to change everything. Each forgotten by Friday. Tools come and go. Principles stick around. The “why” still matters more than the “how.

@Mike_Andreuzza With coffee in the morning, I also add some collagen peptides for a protein kick, can’t taste either of them

how are you guys taking your creating? With water it tastes disgusting...

@johannwegmann @interiorsuckerr Lime (the colour) is overdue a comeback

Just because there is a tiny home plant on the left

@justinmfarrugia @karelvuong @samjvuong This is what people miss when copying or taking inspiration, the same design decisions don’t fit every context

to be clear, I’m all for people remixing ideas and building useful things. I actually quite liked a lot of the products featured by @karelvuong and @samjvuong , and would even feature some of them on curated.supply if there was a fit heck there's "spinoffs" like @dudufolio's @hellomacfolio or @driceroland's wear.gallery that I quite like my point was never “don’t build this” or that I somehow own the look, curated.supply itself is inspired by plenty of directories that came before it it was more that when something gets copied 1:1, down to structure/content patterns/disclaimers, you ironically inherit decisions that might not even make sense for that audience in the first place plus, when there’s practically an infinite number of directions AI can help you explore, it just feels like a missed opportunity to make something truly stand out anyways enough "you copied my rectangle" drama for the day 🙃

OpenClaw without Claude is pretty useless, what's the best alternative for it?

Hello! Today we're releasing Paper Desktop Paper is now a canvas for Cursor, Claude Code, Codex. Any agent can read and write html to Paper. • push or pull from your codebase • pull real data from anywhere • less work, more design What will you ship? Sound on 🎶

User interfaces are shifting. Inputs go conversational. Outputs stay visual. Less navigation. More intent. The interface becomes the response, not the entry point.

Shaders, real light, subtle depth. This used to be “extra.” As the tech gets cheaper, it becomes baseline. The bar rises quietly. Taste matters more than novelty.

In SaaS, speed isn’t the advantage anymore. Everyone ships fast. Coherence over time wins: fewer edge cases, clearer language and less design debt

Design tools used to stop at handoff. Now they don’t. Production-ready output changes the role of design software. Less translation. More fidelity. Clearer intent → implementation.

At some point, overrated AI hype deserves the same scrutiny as AI slop.

AI will speed up execution. Design systems define direction. The faster teams move, the more important clear rules become. Without them, speed just creates noise.

Most design system challenges aren’t tooling issues. They’re clarity issues. Clear ownership tends to make everything else easier.

Design adds the most value when it reduces open questions. Clear decisions tend to compound over time.

New FigQA site is live. Spent time simplifying the message rather than adding more. Feels closer to how the product actually works now.

As automation increases, judgment becomes more visible. Tools help. Decisions still matter.

Not every team needs a full-time designer. Some teams benefit most from experienced support at key decision points.

The most useful way I’m using AI is as a thinking partner. Less about outputs. More about clarity.

AI doesn’t replace design judgment. A good design system makes that judgment scale.

AI is great at acceleration. Design systems are the guardrails. As more work becomes automated, clarity matters more, not less.