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InsideOutSanta | on: Claude Fable 5
After running it for half an hour: it's incredibly good at the visual aspects of UI design.
tsunamifury | parent
"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.

InsideOutSanta | root | parent | next
> "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.

tsunamifury | root | parent
Yes... it translates lint. Probably a more useful thing, if mechanical.
verisimilidude | root | parent | next
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.

_3u10 | root | parent | next
> "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.

coldtea | root | parent | next
>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.

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tsunamifury | root | parent
You likely have no idea what you are talking about. Even apples worst UI choices are systematically far more complex than Claude latest capabilities
coldtea | root | parent | next
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).
angoragoats | root | parent
The iOS Preview app begs to differ.
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