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... OK?

Most people would design a very similar app if asked to design a weather app. Due diligence would be looking at existing apps in the space and making a decision on how much you want to deviate from the norm.

I once had to make an EPG for a TV app. EPGs are the channel schedules on any cable box interface.

It was stupidly complicated getting the navigation down solid. Took a long time. My boss asked at the end "this is great. Can we patent anything from it?"

Uh, no. Anyone with the same problem (navigating multiple channel schedules at once via arrow keys) is going to come up with something similar.

Same with weather apps. And Apple even has guidelines on app layouts for scrolling vs drilling down nested pages.

Seems like the AI did exactly what a human would do.

That’s good of them. A lot of companies would just say, “fuck it”

Ok I’ll say it.

What’s Figma?

“Within hours of seeing this tweet, we identified the issue, which was related to the underlying design systems that were created. Ultimately it is my fault for not insisting on a better QA process for this work and pushing our team hard to hit a deadline for Config,” Figma CEO Dylan Field said on Twitter. Config is Figma’s annual conference where it showcased Make Design. “I have asked our team to temporarily disable the Make Design feature until we are confident we can stand behind its output. The feature will be disabled when our US based team wakes up in a few hours, and we will re-enable it when we have completed a full QA pass on the underlying design system.”

That’s one way to put this shocking tidbit.