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Without knowing CS fundamentals, you will end up being sloppy developers, even with vibe-coding
I totally agree. I feel like people with no coding experience are making a mess with their builds. At the same time, I believe new principles and ideas for helping people with no coding will emerge very soon, its what happened to product design in the 2010s
Yes, it will about to happen, because amount of people with no coding creating apps is growing faster.
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Uhh. Can you help me pick, A or B? 🙏
I'm drafting client's landing page using 2 of the most advanced AI models: Anthropic (Fable) and OpenAI (Sol).
Both delivered a banger result from a single prompt (I'll put it in the comments).
Can you tell which model delivered which output? 😏
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I think both are AI generated UI
correct if I'm worng.
IKEA — Lighting up your best dreams
AI-generated campaign concept
Full creative direction and image production for a personal IKEA campaign concept: from prompt engineering to final retouch.
The idea: a sleeping figure in a set built half like a bedroom, half like a stage, where light does most of the storytelling, shifting from near-darkness to a warm sunrise-like glow, as if dawn were happening just out of frame.
I handled the full pipeline: prompt engineering and art direction in Claude, image production in Flora with Nano Banana Pro, post-production in Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom. From the hero shot, I also generated a coherent set of product-level close-ups using the same prompt and source image, same light, same mood, no separate shoot required.
Personal concept, not affiliated with the brand.
Looks so good 🙌
Let's talk about designing for anxiety 🧘♂️
Lately, our team has been thinking a lot about how people feel when they first open a complex platform. Most of the time, they're slightly overwhelmed or anxious.
As designers, we often talk about beautiful layouts and good hierarchy. But none of that means much if the user feels lost or stressed out.
That's what led us to what I call calm design.
Our team has been paying more attention to the small things that make an experience feel safe. Here are some of them:
• softer copy;
• guided empty states;
• subtle feedback that lets users know they did everything right.
Social Tap is one of our projects where this was really put to the test. A platform for brands and influencers, with lots of features and two very different user types. Getting the emotional side of the experience right wasn't optional there.
At the end of the day, people might not remember what the interface looked like. They surely remember how it made them feel.
Do you think about the user's emotional state when creating a design? Would love to hear how you approach it 🪼
Wow! That's really interesting 😍