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🟣 TOOOLS #20: Capacity Desktop, Design / AI Workflows, ShaderPad, Dither it, Remix

Section Icon   TOOOL OF THE WEEK
Capacity Desktop, a Mac app that builds web, mobile, and desktop apps from plain descriptions

Capacity Desktop

A Lovable that lives on your Mac instead of a browser tab in the cloud. Capacity Desktop turns plain descriptions into web, mobile, and desktop apps, keeps every project as normal files on your machine, and publishes to accounts you own, so nothing is trapped in a platform. Free while in beta, and it runs on the AI subscription you already pay for with no marked-up credits in between.

Section Icon   ALSO ON THE RADAR
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Design / AI Workflows

A living library of AI design workflows, collected in an open Notion database that keeps growing.
 
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ShaderPad

A lightweight, embeddable shader player that takes the heavy setup out of adding animated WebGL effects to any website.
 
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Dither it

Free image dithering in the browser, with the classic algorithms and support for batches and animated GIFs.
 
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Remix

A workspace for running experiments on live copies of your real product, each variant on its own shareable link, approved by engineering before it ships.

Section Icon   A FEW READS & LISTENS

UX COLLECTIVE  📖 ARTICLE

Designing for the proxy

Aurélie Radom on interfaces that AI agents now read and act on before their humans ever see them. Make screens legible to machines, but protect the invisible decisions where the human value lives.
 

DIVE CLUB  🎧 PODCAST

How a Side Project Became Claude Design

Anthropic designer Nate Parrott on how a side experiment turned into Claude Design in about three months, including the weatherman prototype that grew into voice mode. A grounded look at where visual storytelling with AI goes next.
 

MICROSOFT DESIGN  📖 ARTICLE

The naked designer

Matthew Santone on what is left when execution gets cheap: when finish was expensive it was a signal, and now the polish is free. His answer is conviction, a point of view the work can stand on once craft alone no longer carries it.

Section Icon   UPDATES & NEWS

Adobe ships a ChatGPT app that runs 70+ Photoshop, Premiere, Firefly, and Acrobat tools inside the conversation

Figma reports $370M in Q2 revenue, up 48 percent, in its first full quarter of making money from AI features

Vercel and the major AI players launch Agent Plugins, one open format for extending AI assistants across ChatGPT, Cursor, and Copilot

Brandfetch gives AI assistants a direct line to verified brand logos, colors, and fonts, so agents stop guessing your brand

Meta enters the coding agent race with Muse Code, built for long-running tasks and powered by its new Muse Spark 1.2 model

Section Icon   ONE MORE THING ...

AN OBSESSION WORTH ADMIRING

Altar II, a two-year quest to build the mechanical Magic Keyboard Apple never made.

Keyboards are either thick and tactile or slim and mushy, and Andrew Emerson spent two years refusing to pick a side. Altar II is 4.75 millimetres of machined aluminium with real mechanical switches and 1.8mm of travel underneath.

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