UI & UX Design Lead. Opinions my own. Let’s be positive!
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Apple in the past would have just stuck to it.
"Deal with it that is what we decided, because we have taste you don't".
Now its we awww soooowwwy please you tell usss how your computer looks good boss."
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Anybody get weird behavior from @cursor_ai that it writes out its responses twice - like the same answer twice without pause?
100%
Very well said.
Apple was and is supposed to be the king of saying NO.
Saying no is one of the most important things in good product design.
And they increasingly seem to become yes-people.
I’ll explain it
When you buy Apple, you're buying CRITERIA: the best experience for each task.
I don't want 50 options. I want the best one, already chosen.
A buffet gives you 50 dishes and no idea which ones are good. Pick wrong, and the bad meal is your fault
A Michelin-star restaurant is the opposite: a fixed, opinionated menu where every dish is great
Apple is supposed to be the Michelin restaurant
This MacBook Pro is a buffet: “use whatever input you like, best for the task or not.”
That's why we're upset
Because we can't blindly trust Apple's CRITERIA anymore
And that trust is the #1 reason Apple got to the top!
Apple has been bombarded by so called Pros and Power user and experts to bring touch to Macs.
They gave in. Limit it to one device to show you how bad it is.
That is what they did.
This isn't going to last ... not in this form.
This should also answer the question of
: “Can’t you just give us the code now what is taking so long? Open source when?”
Finally.
When turning on more stuff, explicitly WiFi, audio to get the speech to text to speech going, I got into memory problems. I focused so much on the snappiness, that the agent took the shortest route and spammed the DRAM.
Then I spend a full day seeing it try to fix stuff.
And here’s where I don’t know how many people will fall in a trap like this and fail:
I recognized what it was trying to do and suspected other the problem needed to be solved by completely reconsidering our memory approach - I saw how but it didn’t. So I basically had to force it to reset - did a q&a to build context for it and it created a completely new plan how to manage the memory with our goal of snappy UI.
And in the q&a I saw all the wrong assumptions it was carrying in context. It needed a context and goal reset.
Two compiles later we are on a super healthy system. Snappy as always. It was like 20 compiles with no success before that.
I think if you really don’t know stuff, right now AI is still not a magic button.
If you want the good stuf. If you really care about details.
Finally.
When turning on more stuff, explicitly WiFi, audio to get the speech to text to speech going, I got into memory problems. I focused so much on the snappiness, that the agent took the shortest route and spammed the DRAM.
Then I spend a full day seeing it try to fix stuff.
And here’s where I don’t know how many people will fall in a trap like this and fail:
I recognized what it was trying to do and suspected other the problem needed to be solved by completely reconsidering our memory approach - I saw how but it didn’t. So I basically had to force it to reset - did a q&a to build context for it and it created a completely new plan how to manage the memory with our goal of snappy UI.
And in the q&a I saw all the wrong assumptions it was carrying in context. It needed a context and goal reset.
Two compiles later we are on a super healthy system. Snappy as always. It was like 20 compiles with no success before that.
I think if you really don’t know stuff, right now AI is still not a magic button.
If you want the good stuf. If you really care about details.
I thought it wad dumb on the windows things.
I still think it's dumb on a MacBook.
This is not a useful angle or position for touch and it's not a solution to anything.
I think at least Apple Designers know that this will not be used for anything else than the occasional "reflex" of touching something. This is not a primary interface around the OS.
If you could move the display to a useful angle ... then maybe ...
MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR
Almost every demo I’ve seen has some amount of mis-touches and slight fumbles because at the end of the day this is still a computer designed to be used with a keyboard and a trackpad/mouse, but… there’s no denying it’s responsive and smooth as hell
Pro tip: the nanotexture version is way softer/smoother to the touch than the glossy, which drags a bit under your finger. Both do a surprisingly good job hiding fingerprints
You know what the most underrated difference to me is? The lighter weight. I swear. The 16-inch weighs almost a pound less than the non-touch version. Very into that
Full video impressions coming soon
Yep. Figma is basically done for me, too. No more hand placed pixels. Only design systems.
I don't use Figma anymore.
Grok bot is our chief design engineer.
I didn't hire anyone. I set up a grok bot on @bot and gave it a title: chief design engineer.
It doesn't ship for me. I still approve every design, but it does basically everything else.
Last week, it dug through our data, found two design flaws, and shipped an update.
Since shipping:
Our platform engagement grew by +22%
Traffic quickly grew by 10%.
Here's what it actually does every week:
- turns drop-offs in our analytics into one design for me to approve on @paper
- studies the best apps to see what's working
- writes up every idea in @linear with the problem and the fix
- tells me when a design is good enough so i don't overpolish it
- waits for my pick before anything ships
It's not magic. some designs are meh and I tell it so.
I just pick one.
ALT A blue, cartoonish character with a smiling face is labeled "Chief Design Engineer" by Felix, promoting an AI design tool for founders.
ALT A digital interface outlines design instructions and memories for a product design partner, focusing on streamlined approval processes.
Hardware is hard.
Will have to do a v3 of the case, as the stability of the snap fits I went for was lacking. Was too enthusiastic and wasted 8 hours on a set of to. This case is made to cover up to two switches (Germany).
At least I learned what I want from the case. And found that the Sun Matte PETG in that "Ivory" kind of shade is a good fit as a wall device. And if you do ironing with your 3d printer the quality is remarkably good.
I'll also try out spray painting cases, to see how good we can get with the color and feel.
But ... 8 hours and two cases for the bin 🥲
Seriously I asked grok to research what it would even take in the eu to make a panel / server thing a product in the EU.
And really all I can think right now is: who would ever want to still do this? Like only huge corps can afford to deal with this.
Look at just the first batch of regulations that deal with tech involved.
@EUCouncil
While we’re waiting for the printed case, the sound design I order from my Grok @bot just came in.
Which one?
I think the real instrument based ones are it. At least the first part! That’s exactly what I ordered. 🥰
This is now running really smooth on that tiny ESP32-P4.
If you know Smart Home screens out there, this is not what you get normally with what is commercially available.
I build this for me first. Because all the screens out there suck and cost an arm and a leg.
And they aren’t open. And don’t support your agent talking to you.
It so feels like Star Trek to iterate through 3d Design for my ESP32 Display case and then send it to my Replicator, I mean 3D printer and just get this thing to exist in the physical world. Isn't that amazing?
And btw. maybe it's me but this "I just one prompted" thing is actually is not how this work for me.
Development for this is incredibly fast with AI, but it still needs compiling, flashing, testing ... thinking about stuff, optimization for slow ESP32 hardware took a long time ...
Still this is not a one-prompt-over-night-thing ... not at all.
Ok, so I created a Custom Setup for ESP32 now, to run my Home Dashboard with AI connection to that platform. First Device it's running on is a Waveshare 7 inch ESP32 and I also created a 3D printed flush mount wall case, so you can mount it over outlets.
Here's a preview.
Tools: Cursor, Sketch. Love it,
@wesbos @waveshare00 @sketch
Ok, so I created a Custom Setup for ESP32 now, to run my Home Dashboard with AI connection to that platform. First Device it's running on is a Waveshare 7 inch ESP32 and I also created a 3D printed flush mount wall case, so you can mount it over outlets.
Here's a preview.
Tools: Cursor, Sketch. Love it,
@wesbos @waveshare00 @sketch
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