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The tools are getting smarter. The judgment still has to come from you.
AI can generate a dozen wireframes in seconds. It can't tell you which one respects the user's mental model — or when the whole brief needs questioning.
After years in product design, that's the part I find myself protecting most: the thinking before the making.
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Well said. AI can assist the how, but not the why. Protecting that early thinking is what separates design from output.
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Hold to Think — The 2025 Interaction
The first interaction designed to make you smarter, not faster.
This is my submission for the Figma Makeathon challenge.
Every iconic interaction was built for speed. Swipe. Scroll. Tap. Nobody ever designed one for thinking.
Hold to Think reimagines the long-press into an intelligent decision layer. You hold a button. A ring grows. The interface surfaces what you need to know. Then you decide.
Prototype: https://data-gecko-64025744.figma.site
Four scenarios — Social, Shopping, Messaging, Deleting — all smarter with one hold.
Built entirely in Figma Make.
Every interaction made you faster. This one makes you smarter.
Social Post Link: https://x.com/Victor042768600/status/2027611204789715031?s=20
This is a powerful shift in interaction philosophy. Designing for cognition instead of speed could fundamentally change how we measure UX success. Curious how you tested user response to slower, intentional interactions?
A Spatial AI Planning System Built with Figma Make.
We’ve been interacting with AI like this:
Prompt → Response.
But real planning doesn’t work that way.
So I built something different.
Plan Mode redefines AI thinking as:
Intent → Constraints → Resources → Reasoning → Execution
1. Plan Builder (Node-Based Logic)
In Plan Builder, you wire your system like n8n.
You drag nodes onto the canvas and connect them.
When the structure is ready, you activate the plan.
2 Constraint Knowledge Graph
Time,Budget,Technical ,Complexity,Risk Level
3.Final Plan Activation
When you hit Activate Plan, the interface shifts.
The graph transforms into a live execution view.
Primary path highlights.
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You have about 5 seconds to be interesting before they leave
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So smooth! absolutely nailed it
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