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02-03
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I tested some AI-powered UI design products on the market: Google's Stitch (specifically for UI design) is relatively new, but I'm already a heavy user. Unfortunately, it malfunctioned again today, not the first time, so I had to find a backup. Gemini recommended four, which I tried out. The first was Uizard. Simple UIs were too simplistic, while complex ones didn't understand my intentions and had heavy template artifacts, easily swallowing my ideas. However, the advantage is that the small modules can be dragged and modified, which is fantastic for a novice UI designer, offering a sense of control. Perhaps the free models are too basic, but I don't want to pay if the design is poor. The second was Miaoduo AI, which accurately implemented my prompt idea. It allows for adjustments to each small module and provides prompt functionality to each module. Google's Stitch also allows selecting a small section and modifying it verbally, which I like best. However, modifying the selected section within the Stitch is a mess, just like the early days of OpenAI where you had to use frames on raw images. The third image is Canva. Despite being a design platform, the UI is mechanically poorly executed, feeling similar to Replit from six months ago. The UI design sense hasn't caught up, and the app development capabilities are unsatisfactory. The fourth image is Figma. It's like they were just using it for UI design, directly implementing some functions. Of the four, I like Figma the most because it has some surprises, but it feels a bit too cumbersome and expensive in terms of tokens, since I just want a design draft. From a purely user-centric perspective, it seems that Canva and Figma, with their inherently good UI design, are particularly eager to gravitate towards Vibe code apps, enabling them to deploy apps. If users simply tell AI to create an app, the UI design process disappears. Therefore, they are forced to extend upstream and downstream, aiming for one-stop deployment. On the other hand, Google and startups are trying to focus on just one UI layer, perfecting it to the extreme, and becoming highly vertical. They are betting that for a considerable period, humans will still need an intermediate state. We need to see the interface, adjust pixels, and confirm the visual feel before writing code. At this stage, I still prefer the latter. Canva and Figma make me feel a bit overly anxious—who would want to develop an app with them? But I don't know if that's right or wrong. After all, on the other hand, app development has become a form of content creation, so thinking that way is reasonable. It's just a matter of focusing on doing what you're good at best first. Finally, I hope my Google Switch gets fixed soon and stops malfunctioning, otherwise I'll definitely subscribe to something else.
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