Google offers ‘vibe design’ tool that you can shout at to create a UI

The term “vibe coding” has become associated with use of AI coding assistants to create code that expresses a developer’s intent, even if the results are ropey and require plenty of extra work to put into production. Google’s now proudly adapted the term to describe the workings of its Stitch design tool. The Chocolate Factory …

[jake]

Remember back when ...

... Microsoft's "Multimedia PCs" would allow the entire office to talk to Excel and other Office products?

Remember why nobody talked to their spreadsheets after all?

More Jive Design, from a jive-ass company full of kids who refuse to pay attention to history.

[that one in the corner]

What you want your users to feel

Deep embarrassment on your behalf after you've been caught manifesting your ideation in public.

[Paul Herber]

Re: What you want your users to feel

'manifesting'

Is this like mansplaining?

[elsergiovolador]

Re: What you want your users to feel

Manifestation explained

^^ learn about manifestation here.

[Paul Herber]

Re: What you want your users to feel

I do wonder what your first language is. I have my thoughts, but it is a language without the phrase "sense of humour" !!!

[Gavsky]

Re: What you want your users to feel

'Ere! I'm not mani-whatsiting my ideation in front of no body, Bruv!...

[Yorick Hunt]

I don't think any usable UIs will come from what most people would be shouting at Google.

[David 132]

UIs, no.

Illustrative diagrams suitable for gynaecology and/or proctology textbooks, quite possibly.

[Headley_Grange]

" the results are ropey and require plenty of extra work to put into production."

I can write code like that and I'm not even a software engineer.

[Neil Barnes]

You can speak directly to your canvas

Speaking to your canvas is strictly reserved for starving artists in lonely garrets.

Where's my other ear? --->

[Paul Herber]

Re: You can speak directly to your canvas

'Where's my other ear?'

Eagles -> Peaceful Easy Feeling.

(I've been wanting to use this as the answer to this question for nigh on 50 years!)

[Paul Herber]

'an infinite canvas'

Create .... a universe!!!

Let there be light!

[StewartWhite]

The Paranoid Android was right

I'm with Marvin "What a depressingly stupid machine."

[Naich]

yay

Great, now everyone can crank out shitty annoying UIs in half the time.

[Tron]

Hey AI, reverse engineer Windows 7 for me in a legally FOSS iteration.

Ta.

[Gavsky]

"NO! Put the bloody toolbar at the top! And why is it that colour? I specifically said 'no pink', didn't I? Christ, I could do this better myself! What's with the tiny icons? I can't see what they're supposed to be!"...

[ecofeco]

I just saw the video review of this

Dear god, we're so boned.

And reading some of the YouTube comments reminds me why I quit doing website design long ago. Both designers and clients are fucking morons.

Just shit piled on top of more shit. It's no mystery to me why website designs suck so goddamn hard. And everyone's been eating the shit sandwich for so long they thinks it's good.