Hacker News with Generative AI: Design

A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen (theverge.com)
Ask just about anybody, and they’ll tell you that new cars are too expensive. In the wake of tariffs shaking the auto industry and with the Trump administration pledging to kill the federal EV incentive, that situation isn’t looking to get better soon, especially for anyone wanting something battery-powered. Changing that overly spendy status quo is going to take something radical, and it’s hard to get more radical than what Slate Auto has planned.
Electric Vehicles, Automotive Industry, Design, Consumerism
1155 points by kwindla 18 hours ago | 1009 comments
IKEA website shows a verbatim copy of the physical printed receipt in HTML (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.
Web Development, User Experience, Design
27 points by ksec 18 hours ago | 4 comments
You Can Be a Great Designer and Be Completely Unknown (chrbutler.com)
I often find myself contemplating the greatest creators in history — those rare artists, designers, and thinkers whose work transformed how we see the world. What constellation of circumstances made them who they were? Where did their ideas originate? Who mentored them? Would history remember them had they lived in a different time or place?
Design, Creativity, History
246 points by delaugust 1 day ago | 117 comments
IKEA's Web Fonts (medium.com)
For the longest time, if you mentioned IKEA to a designer they’d say the word Futura.
Design, Web Development, Typography, IKEA
9 points by robin_reala 2 days ago | 0 comments
You wouldn't steal a font (fedi.rib.gay)
Ethics, Design, Open Source, Software, Fonts
1365 points by todsacerdoti 3 days ago | 387 comments
The Danglepoise (sallery.co.uk)
In the dying years of the 20th century, the “rise and fall” light fitting became briefly popular.
Lighting, Design, History
47 points by draazon 3 days ago | 18 comments
The Gruen Transfer is consuming the internet (sebs.website)
Have you ever walked into a supermarket, pharmacy, or department store looking to buy a specific item, only to find the layout confusing? Perhaps you ended up aimlessly strolling around, purchasing other items? This is deliberate, and known as the Gruen Transfer.
Retail, Design, Psychology
348 points by Incerto 3 days ago | 250 comments
Bloat – Rob Pike (docs.google.com)
Programming, Software Engineering, Design
7 points by valyala 3 days ago | 0 comments
Vibe Coding, Vibe Checking, and Vibe Blogging (oreilly.com)
For the past decade and a half, I’ve been exploring the intersection of technology, education, and design as a professor of cognitive science and design at UC San Diego.
Education, Design, Technology, Cognitive Science
5 points by BerislavLopac 3 days ago | 0 comments
London Underground Station Design Idiom [pdf] (tfl.gov.uk)
Architecture, Design, Transportation, London, PDF
8 points by nhf 3 days ago | 0 comments
Against Horizontal Scroll (matklad.github.io)
What’s in common between these two blog posts (pardon me, my fellow crustaceans of lobster variety)?
Web Development, User Interface, Design
4 points by ingve 3 days ago | 0 comments
Hyperwood – Open-Source Furniture (hyperwood.org)
Hyperwood is an open-source system for crafting furniture from simple wooden slats.
Open Source, Furniture, Design, 3D Printing, DIY
167 points by panic 4 days ago | 12 comments
US Steel Portfolio of Possibilities - the future through the eyes of the 60s (flickr.com)
A look at the future through the eyes of the 1960s.
History, Design, Photography, Future, Industry
4 points by keepamovin 4 days ago | 2 comments
Figma sent a cease-and-desist letter to Lovable over the term 'Dev Mode' (techcrunch.com)
Figma has sent a cease-and-desist letter to popular no-code AI startup Lovable, Figma confirmed to TechCrunch.
Legal Disputes, Software, AI, Startup, Design
18 points by stanislavb 4 days ago | 5 comments
The Evolution of Supersonic Inlet Design (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.
Aerospace Engineering, Supersonic Flight, Design
6 points by JumpCrisscross 4 days ago | 0 comments
Launch HN: Magic Patterns (YC W23) – AI Design and Prototyping for Product Teams (ycombinator.com)
Alex and Teddy here. We’re launching Magic Patterns (https://www.magicpatterns.com), an AI prototyping tool that helps PMs and designers create functional, interactive designs and websites.
AI, Product Development, Design, Startups, YC
184 points by alexdanilowicz 5 days ago | 114 comments
A Brief History of Herman Miller (youssefaa.com)
If corporations were people—and legally they are—Herman Miller would be that rare specimen: the 100-year-old with impeccable taste who somehow never lost touch with what’s cool.
History, Design, Companies
5 points by joeamroo 5 days ago | 1 comments
UI tip: maybe don't round percentages to 0% or 100% (evanhahn.com)
In short: maybe don’t round to 0% or 100% in your UI.
User Interface, Design, Best Practices
45 points by goranmoomin 7 days ago | 15 comments
Designing Node-Based Interfaces (2021) (wilkinson.graphics)
Node-Based, Graphics, Software, Design
5 points by DaGardner 9 days ago | 0 comments
Why does everything look infantilized? (assemblagenyc.substack.com)
If you’re like me, you have been bemoaning that they “just don’t make things like they used to.”
Design, Aesthetics, Nostalgia, Culture
18 points by futuraperdita 9 days ago | 7 comments
Atypography – Art Movement Introduction (atypography.com)
The long-awaited pact has been signed. Typography and abstraction have come to an agreement.  
Art, Typography, Design
28 points by gessha 10 days ago | 4 comments
Show HN: I Made Bagel Font (bake-ai.com)
ACNE STUDIOSBabygirlMaison Margiela.
Typography, Design, Web Development, Font
15 points by hmpark 10 days ago | 25 comments
Designing a low-cost high-performance 10 MHz – 15 GHz vector network analyzer (hforsten.com)
I was unable to find a cheap two-port VNA that would meet my requirements, but after thinking it a bit, I was quite sure that I could make my own VNA that would have better performance than any other cheap VNA currently available, even when factoring in the higher prices at small prototype quantities.
Electronics, Hardware, Design, Measurement, Network Analysis
102 points by pdziepak 11 days ago | 25 comments
Japanese Typography Essentials: Japanese Type Between Japanese and Latin (researchgate.net)
Typography, Japanese Language, Design, Language
13 points by bryanrasmussen 11 days ago | 2 comments
The Essential Reading List for TTRPGs (thealexandrian.net)
“If you were teaching a intro-level college class on roleplaying game design, what would be the reading list?”
Role-Playing Games, Gaming, Design, Education, Literature
16 points by BerislavLopac 13 days ago | 4 comments
New urinal designs (livescience.com)
Design, Architecture, Bathrooms
98 points by anjel 13 days ago | 126 comments
Which typeface's capital "I" makes the best I-beam? (researchgate.net)
Typography, Design, User Interface
4 points by qkeast 14 days ago | 1 comments
Chartjunk (wikipedia.org)
Chartjunk consists of all visual elements in charts and graphs that are not necessary to comprehend the information represented on the graph, or that distract the viewer from this information.[1][2][3]
Data Visualization, Charts, Design, Information Design
16 points by tosh 14 days ago | 2 comments
The masterful design of the two-liter plastic soda bottle [video] (youtube.com)
Design, Packaging, Video
6 points by ic147 15 days ago | 2 comments
Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (velvetshark.com)
If you pay attention to AI company branding, you'll notice a pattern:
Artificial Intelligence, Branding, Design
155 points by sabon 15 days ago | 32 comments