Prompts vs Pixels

Mentioned V0 by Vercel that generates front-end code Builder.io for creating UI flows from language prompts UXPilot for generating UI from specs Lovable for different design styles Perplexity as a tool that bypasses SEO spam Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? Jakob's Law of Internet User Experience 23:48 Brian says he didn’t do a great job unpacking the confusion and buzz around “agentic AI” and that many people conflate multi-shot prompts, agentic AI and AI agents. Most real world “agentic AI” today doesn’t exactly match the definition used in research papers around AI agents. 38:00 Great story of a UX designer using Figma’s MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server and Cursor to create functional code. 41:00 The Shape of AI | UX Patterns for Artificial Intelligence Design Topics Discussed Large Language Models (LLMs) vs other AI technologies The rapid standardization of AI interface patterns AI tools in designers' current workflows Multi-shot prompts and agentic systems The tension between "prompts vs pixels" in product development How AI is changing the designer's role The new "industrial revolution" we're experiencing with AI Pull Quotes "Most AI researchers believe that the AI models have already reached 100% scouring of the web, right? So anything that's public is probably in those foundational models, which means they're not really going to grow much in the next five years." –Brian "It will make the most basic patterns. It will pull the most basic stuff... But what it won't do is it won't make it interesting." –Joe "I was a little bit stunned by how quickly that locked into amber... that they're all chat-based interfaces. They all use magic wands or sparkles or something." –Joe "A society that prioritizes productivity is a society without imagination... if the goal is to just get the data as fast as possible to do things better and faster, you are saving time for what?" –Joe "This is a new enlightenment. This is a new industrial revolution... Everything is changing." –Joe Other Resources on AI & Design The case against conversational interfaces Emerging UI/UX Patterns in Generative AI: A Visual Guide UX patterns for AI-powered experiences Emerging UX patterns in Generative AI experiences What I’ve learned from 18 mths of AI conversational UI design Generative AI UX Design Patterns Scarcity and Abundance in 2025 Connect with Joe & Brian Website: designer.fm Email: [email protected] Please like, subscribe, and give us any feedback! Outro music: In the Year 2525 by Zager & Evans Got something to say to us, good, bad or ugly? You can always email us at [email protected]