After running it for half an hour: it's incredibly good at the visual aspects of UI design.

By what measure?

I wonder how much of design capability improvements is related to our collective ability to recognize AI design tropes.

"incredibly" is doing a ton of work here. I do not think its doing even moderate work on visual design, but it can spew out a lot of ui that looks arranged ... ok.

This is still not in the range of shippable UI for top end companies. Maybe for internal tools and enterprise.

At our comapny we limit to protoypes at most and even find it limited there.

> "incredibly" is doing a ton of work here.

Look, I don't want to argue about something dumb like that, but you can give it basic instructions of what the UI should look like, how to group things, and an example image from a designer, and it will nail the result. If you don't think that's incredible, that's fine. I do.

Yes... it translates lint. Probably a more useful thing, if mechanical.

Claude is very good at design IF you encode your design system/specs into skill files (or similar).

Opus 4.7 made this a practical approach. 4.8 improved it. Fable 5 has improved it more.

>This is still not in the range of shippable UI for top end companies.

Given the shit we've seen shipped by "top end companies" (all the way to Apple) I seriously doubt that. I'd say you're nitpicking from an artistic point of view or something.

This. Today's models easily jump over the bar you need for basic usability and intuitive UX. If it's doing weird things, you are holding it wrong.

Might need some additional prompting? I haven't tried fable but gpt 5.5 and gemini 3.5 flash are... Ok on first pass but if you're specific about what you want they can usually get it.

it really feels like UX designers came from no where, jerked us all off, stole a bunch of money and did nothing useful.

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You likely have no idea what you are talking about. Even apples worst UI choices are systematically far more complex than Claude latest capabilities

Dude, I've been using OS X/mac OS for decades, and working in UI as well. Apple ships all kinds of half arsed shit, compared to which even regular Claude UIs can be masterpieces (functionality AND look wise).

The iOS Preview app begs to differ.

> "incredibly" is doing a ton of work here.

so this is why claude talks like this, i was wondering where it was getting this verbal tick from.

By what measure?