For solo makers, wearing every hat is almost unavoidable - developer, marketer, support, product and often designer too.

AI makes this even easier now. You can generate UI pretty quickly, but a lot of products end up relying on consistent, polished AI-generated solutions rather than something truly unique or thoughtfully designed for their specific product.

So I m curious:

Do you design the UI/UX yourself when building solo?

Quick one for the builders here. During a normal workday, where do you actually capture the most, Figma, your browser, an IDE, Linear, somewhere else? I'm trying to map where the volume is, because where people take screenshots seems to matter more than where they paste them. Curious what your day looks like.

There are products I keep using when launching on Product Hunt -- products that help me craft beautiful assets, plan content distribution, and analyze results.

Here's my personal collection. How about you? What's your stack?

Most design applications fail before the interview.

First your resume. Then your portfolio.

And the worst part? Silence.

I continue building UI pages for my email marketing platform using AI, and I wondered if AI generated UI designs are good enough for production apps?

They seem to work great on mobile devices and desktop screens. They load fast. They behave normally. I m personally perfectly fine and happy to use them in production, but what is your opinion? Am I missing something? Should I be worried about using them in production?
To build UI I use Lovable and Google Stitch. I go feature by feature, and for each feature I create a separate Git branch. This way I m more careful that one update does not break my entire website.
P.S. The attached screenshot is a work in progress design that I created using Google Stitch for the Email Automation and Sequencing feature.

I believe every project should have a website to showcase its offering, not to mention for SEO purposes. Whether SEO will still be relevant due to AI is another discussion.

Do you have any favourite websites that are both functional and beautifully designed?

In a recent issue of The Breakpoint, we talked quality software.

Does design matter to developers? In my opinion, yes. Take Stripe, Linear, and Resend for example. Both dev-first products made craftsmanship a first principle.

Hey, PH! I m Kirill, a UX & product designer obsessed with making tech feel more human.

Lately, I ve been thinking about how bad design makes good ideas fail whether it s:

Mental health apps that feel like data-entry chores.

Productivity tools that make people feel less productive.