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🤿 Irish fairies

🤿 Irish fairies

is this the future of AI tooling?

Ridd
December 01, 2025

I get shown a lot of tool demos and one thing is clear…

Canvas-based UX will play a pivotal role in how we interface with AI.

It’s a big reason why Figma just bought Weavy 👀

So I interviewed Steve Ruiz who is the founder of tldraw where he's spent over 3 years and $5 million dollars building the perfect canvas (which powers many of the startups that we've studied on this show).

Some highlights:

Why he’s been obsessing over fairies
Steve’s principles for good tool design
How he was able to learn to code so quickly
What Steve’s learned through his AI experiments
How he’s thinking about the future of agentic design
+ a lot more

Watch on YouTube, Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts 👇

🤝 WITH PAPER

I saw a scroll-stopping tweet the other day…

The creators of Tailwind are working directly on Paper to train the output to be perfect. They even invested in the company 🤯

So just think about the possibilities for a second…

In the future you could design something in Paper and then just right-click and copy the perfect Tailwind as if the creators wrote it by hand or take an existing code component and import it into Paper to make edits directly on the canvas.

This is going to totally change how we design and deliver UIs for the web and it’s another reason why I’m betting on Paper as the next great design tool.

You can try it out today just click the link 👇

🔗 FEATURED RESOURCE

Remember when I shared Yann-Edern‘s personal site? It’s still one of my favorites, especially now that he’s leaning into writing more.

His latest article The Rosetta Stone of Design Engineering is definitely worth a read. It’s all about the role of design engineering and lessons learned while building software at Linear.

This quote in particular really resonated:

The ideal isn’t to erase the difference between design and engineering. Each side has its depth, taste, and craft. The goal is simpler: maintain a shared language of making. When that language is strong enough, the wall between the two sides stops looking like a wall. It becomes glass. You can see through it, speak through it, and move faster because of it.

Yann-Edern

🤝 WITH JITTER

If you’re like me then you know adding motion to your designs is the easiest way to make them feel premium.

The thing is… I’m not a motion designer 😅

But that’s why Jitter’s new AI Brainstorm feature is a game changer.

I just drop in my design, and then get instant motion ideas that I can tweak, refine, and make my own.

It’s seriously so easy to animate your work with Jitter I cannot recommend it enough 👇

🔗 FEATURED RESOURCE

How they built the v0 mobile app

This article from Vercel is an incredibly detailed breakdown of all the little decisions that went into making the v0 mobile app.

It gets slightly technical (warning: code blocks ahead) but even if you’re only using it for interaction design inspiration, it’s still worthy of a bookmark.

This is elite attention to detail 👇

🧃 INSPIRATION JUICE

3 things I saved this week

1️⃣ Expandable header menu

Within 3 seconds of landing on the Sunday website I clicked on the header nav bar without even thinking. Something about the simplicity drew me in and I really like the menu interaction too 👌

See it live →

2️⃣ Button loading animation

Cute :)

Check it out →

3️⃣ Operate

The Operate website is probably my favorite design style I’ve seen in the the last few weeks. Moe is super talented and it’s definitely worthy of a scroll.