My new AI design workflow

For the past month I've been communicating with my agents through video. I record my screen, talk, and draw on it. Same as handing work over to a dev.

I wrote about that here last week. The part I didn't have then is what I launched this weekend.

My agents listen to Comms now.

So when I'm done recording I just send it to whichever agent is working, and it picks it up from there. No copy pasting into a chat window.

I recorded a walkthrough of the whole workflow, start to finish. Click here to watch. (About 16 minutes.)

Comms is in open beta and free through September 30. I would love for you to try it out. And if you do, please let me know what you think.

Click here to download Comms beta

Jan

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The Type Founders rebranded, pairing ATF Super Condensed and Grtsk with Meno across its roster of foundries. Fonts In Use

NN/g published an AI glossary written for product and design work, covering tokens, context windows, agents, evals and prompt injection. Nielsen Norman Group

The French Football Federation had Solstices Studio sharpen its national team identity rather than replace it. Creative Review

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The original Mac icons

Susan Kare drew the icons and typefaces for the first Macintosh. The Happy Mac, the trash can, the bomb, and Chicago, the system typeface.

She worked on a small pixel grid, and there is a talk where she explains how. At that size you can't get to simple by removing detail. You draw the shape over and over until it reads.

Many of her icons are still in use today. The talk is on YouTube.

Balsa UI

Balsa UI is an open-source component library for Vue and React, built on the premise that the code will be generated and modified by an agent rather than typed by a person. It prioritizes machine readability and programmatic control over the conventions a human developer expects from a design system. Free and open source. Worth a look if you are shipping a product where agents touch the front end.

Written and edited by Jan Haaland. Published weekly from Norway.

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