What Guillermo Rauch thinks about design
CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.
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12 dated positions, 2014 to 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Guillermo Rauch has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsSkills are now a valuable form of software, like Emil's world-class design eng work. Projects like πππππ, ππππ, ππππππππππππ create amazing AI engineering loops.
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Their wordsMore and more of our personal and professional computing experiences will come from agents that orchestrate work in the cloud, using sandboxes. Those sandboxes will be Linux.
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Their wordsEvery piece of software is now at major risk, Linux included. But Linux has the collective investment of everyone on the planet throwing tokens at it.
- 10 days earlier
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Their wordsThe 'in between' is likely to be subsumed by agents producing just-in-time UI. When you need utilitarian content or data, it'll be generated just-in-time for you. Think of the agent as the new browser in this model.
- 3 days earlier
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Their wordsAs software evolves, it tends to get slower, more bloated, buggier, and bigger.
- 11 years earlier
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Their wordsAnd if Iβm allowed to extrapolate, a clear path is now laid out towards a future where the steps to go from sketch to design to implementation are greatly more accessible to everyone with an idea.
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Their wordsThe fundamental idea I want to discuss is the definition of an applicationβs UI as a pure function of application state.
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Their wordsThe main issue, however, is that underestimating the size of the state space is actually very easy. In other words, itβs difficult to come up with the complete list of questions that your UI needs to answer.
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Their wordsLorem Ipsum has had a good run. Letβs replace it with data.
- 8 months earlier
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Their wordsThe bandwidth capacity of your users' connections might improve noticeably, as it steadily has, but the latency needle won't move much at all. This means that minimizing the number of roundtrips you make to display information on page is essential to great user experience and responsiveness.
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Their wordsA flexible enough system that can share rendering code between browser and server and provides tools for progressively loading scripts and styles will probably eliminate the colloquial distinction between websites and webapps. Both are reigned by the same UX principles. A blog and a CRM are fundamentally not that different.
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Their wordsJavaScript allows us to mask network latency altogether. Applying this as a design principle should even remove most spinners or βloadingβ messages from your applications.