@LukeW

Humanizing tech. MD: Sutter Hill Ventures Founder: Polar (Google acquired) Bagcheck (Twitter acquired) Wrote: Mobile First, Web Form Design Pre: NCSA eBay Yahoo

 Los Gatos, CA
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Joined February 2008
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design teams have spent years trying to get people to actually read their design system documentation. agents can read them every single time they write code. new article on design systems for agents: lukew.com/ff/2164/design-sys…

LukeW | Design Systems for AI Agents

For as long as I've been working on design systems (20+ years, oof!), I've seen the same pattern play out... design teams invest a lot of time in creating a sys...

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for those who want a robust working design system for agents example... we just updated: intentapp.dev/design-system

Design System — Intent

Intent logos, colors, typography, iconography, foundations, and components.

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Luke Wroblewski
@LukeWOct 5
design teams have spent years trying to get people to actually read their design system documentation. agents can read them every single time they write code. new article on design systems for agents: lukew.com/ff/2164/design-sys…

LukeW | Design Systems for AI Agents

For as long as I've been working on design systems (20+ years, oof!), I've seen the same pattern play out... design teams invest a lot of time in creating a sys...

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AI is an ideal denial of service attack against bureaucrats.
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now with data: 75% of all new deliveries included full self driving subscriptions, up from 55% in Q2 2026 xitter.cf/SawyerMerritt/status/2…
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@LukeWSep 24
it's under appreciated how much unlimited tokens is a draw for top-tier talent.
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20 years of the iOS camera app.
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all our AI-native companies are wrestling with these agentic software design/UI needs: - tracking what's happening (many agents) lukew.com/ff/2165/many-agent… - showing what got done (by agents) lukew.com/ff/2142/showing-th… - keeping design coherent (agent instructions) lukew.com/ff/2164/design-sys… - multi-player & collaboration (people+ agents) lukew.com/ff/2153/collaborat… - asset creation tools (agent workflows) lukew.com/ff/2146/consistent…
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and as @Wattenberger reminded me... window management. everyone is searching for the best tabs, panels, canvas, sidebar approach. aka re-thinking the SaaS shape.
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why? more is being produced by agents faster (docs, images, code). where/how to display it all? hence windowing solutions. still a fan of this approach which results in a thread of results only, not process.
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a personal AI is only as good as its content. bunch of ways I improved mine: - voice-aware transcription to recognize me - real-time indexing of new tweets - audio & video timestamps to jump to right moments - vision model to describe PDFs and images - hourly indexing of new content - and more: lukew.com/ff/2168/ask-lukew-…

LukeW | Ask LukeW: Instant Content Indexing

The Ask LukeW feature on my website has been answering people's questions about digital product design for over three years. How well it answers depends on the ...

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example of how this improves answers: How are AI interfaces evolving beyond chat toward agents? lukew.com/ask?id=668be2d2-74…

Ask LukeW: How are AI interfaces evolving beyond chat toward agents?

In just a few years, AI products have moved through four distinct stages: models behind the scenes powering features, then people talking directly to models…

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new in Intent today: - group work by detailed status - paste images into agent answers - reuse sent messages - global Assistant can add & check MCP servers - global Assistant can manage your chats - provider CLI version warnings - long chats open faster - plus fixes & polish in release notes: intentapp.dev/updates
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after circling back to rounded buttons 10 years ago, iOS calculator design has had a decade of consistency since.
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Sam Pullara
@sampullaraOct 18
we do this in intentapp.dev for all the workspace tools. every agent i have asked prefers it.

Intent — Coordinate coding agents in shared workspaces

Coordinate coding agents with Intent. Plan tasks in a shared living spec, review code and diffs, and manage workspaces across your computers and mobile devices.

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Aleem Mawani
@alooOct 17
is anyone actually building "code mode" style MCP servers in production? Does it actually work? Cloudflare (blog.cloudflare.com/code-mod…) swears by it but wondering how it works in practice.

Code Mode: give agents an entire API in 1,000 tokens

The Cloudflare API has over 2,500 endpoints. Exposing each one as an MCP tool would consume over 2 million tokens. With Code Mode, we collapsed all of it into two tools and roughly 1,000 tokens of...

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Your agents just entered the fold. Intent Mobile is the first large scale agent orchestration app that's Duo-optimized.
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thole stack in your hand run commands in full terminals and start or stop saved scripts with a tap. preview your dev servers to review changes. manage context in specs and notes.
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and more... intentapp.dev/duo

Intent on Duo - Your agents just entered the fold.

Build with Intent. Large-scale agent coordination for developers.

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the number of Physics majors just spiked.
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even more true with today's frontier models.
Luke Wroblewski
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it's under appreciated how much unlimited tokens is a draw for top-tier talent.
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i've written 98+ articles about designing AI products over the past 4.5 years. have at 'em: lukew.com/ff?tag=ai%20design
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