What Guillermo Rauch thinks about design
CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.
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11 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 wordsWhat's "best for humans" is no longer necessarily "best for business".
- 11 days earlier
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Their wordsBtw, breaking apart the agent into these independent parts not only optimizes costs in a big way, it also *massively* improves security and auditability. I'd argue you can't even run a secure agent otherwise!
- 2 weeks earlier
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Their wordsSkills are now a valuable form of software, like Emil's world-class design eng work. Projects like 𝚙𝚐𝚋𝚘𝚝, 𝚔𝚗𝚒𝚙, 𝚞𝚗𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚎 create amazing AI engineering loops.
- 11 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.
- 11 years earlier
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Their wordsAnd if I’m 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 application’s 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, it’s 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. Let’s 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 “loading” messages from your applications.