Sam Solomon

Plan Review Skills for Agents

Two plan-review skills—product design and architect—that shape better agent output before any code gets written.

Three Looks at the Brooklyn Bridge

Three views of the Brooklyn Bridge—sunrise from the East River, the tower from below, and the span lit up at night.

New Course, New Site, New York

A free YouTube course on AI agents, the long-awaited move from WordPress to Astro and a weekend of photography in Lower Manhattan.

Repeating Patterns

Getting Started with Agents

A free video course on Claude Code, Codex CLI and OpenCode for designers, PMs and engineers starting from zero. No prior coding experience needed.

Calm Morning Waters

A quiet morning along the Hudson at Battery Park City.

Chinatown and SoHo

Bridges, fire escapes, and street corners across Chinatown and SoHo.

Flow Field

An interactive flow field of glowing particles that drift through shifting noise. Click to regenerate; press ? for shortcuts.

Terminal Light and Lines

A single photograph of an atrium skylight.

Under the Brooklyn Bridge

Bridges, overpasses, and the streets they cast in shadow.

Fearless Girl at NYSE

Statues, columns, and an empty Wall Street.

One World Trade Center

The tower from a few angles around lower Manhattan.

South Street Seaport

Tall ships and a lightship on Pier 16.

The Continental Hotel

A short set of downtown facade and street views.

Sorry! We're Closed

Bunting, hand-painted signs, and a closed door.

Three Questions

I took theater as my art elective when I was in college at Auburn. That wasn’t by choice. I had hoped to take Intro to Architecture.

96 Rock

A vintage Ford Bronco parked on a quiet block.

Garbage Truck

I have been spending a lot of time lately tinkering with native Mac app development, and I’m releasing my first one—a small utility called Garbage Truck.

SFO

Cable cars, atriums, and a wolfman with a coffee.

Product Design in 2026

Thoughts on where product design is headed.

Relay Inspect MCP

An MCP server that gives AI tools to directly assess what's happening in your browser.

Particle Smiley

A canvas of particles that scatters under your cursor and explodes on click.

Zen HN

HHacker News is probably my favorite place on the internet.

Agents Are About To Change Software

Agents are about to change how we build software. A look at vibe coding, Gas Town, and the emergence of the product engineer.

Fast

In early October, I gave a presentation on platform thinking at an onsite for Salesloft’s product experience team—what it is and what it enables.

Derby Days

October is one of is one of my favorite months, and recently we’ve had some perfect porch-sitting weather here in Atlanta.

Richard "Pop" Sullivan

For years I used email drafts as quick ways to gather notes. I’d hit compose, start writing notes and leave them as a draft until I needed them later.

PrizePicks: The Early Days

10 years ago Adam Wexler, Tareq Dowla and Sam Solomon founded SidePrize, the fantasy sports company that most know today as PrizePicks.

Costa Rica Honeymoon

Holly and I didn’t decide where to go on our honeymoon until after our wedding.

Jekyll Island 2024

We’ve been traveling constantly since our wedding. Our first stop on that tour was a last-minute trip to Jekyll Island, GA for my birthday.

Designing Command Palettes

From time to time the design team puts together short talks on various things.

So Long and Thanks for All the Hi-Fives

When I began sending email newsletters for Signal Tower in 2013, I turned to a hometown business with a peculiar name and loveable mascot—Mailchimp.

Designer News is Dead

Designer News is dead. Designer News was an online community for product designers. For years it was the best forum to discuss designing software.

Hide or Disable

Should we hide or disable a specific element? This is a topic that comes up frequently.

2023 Year in Review

Back in 2014 I published my first Year in Review. That makes this the 10th entry and marks a decade of these reviews. First, I am grateful to all of you.

Daufuskie and Hunting Island 2023

A road trip through the South Carolina lowcountry.

The Pooch Pontoon

For Holly’s birthday this year we chartered a Pooch Pontoon on Lake Lanier for an afternoon.

Yosemite August 2023

I have been to Yosemite a couple dozen times over the years. The park has many spectacular sights, spots and trails.

Giant Face Houses

I recently gave a talk about generative AI at AWS. I’m heading to Yosemite next week and made a few nightmarish creations with emojis in Midjourney.

Overdesign

An appeal to designers and product people. Overdesign adds unnecessary complexity. This complexity causes compounding downstream issues for all involved.

Generative AI for Industrial Design

Recently, I spoke about generative AI to a group of designers and researchers at Amazon Web Services.

Exploring Emoji Prompts in Midjourney

Midjourney can take single character prompts—letters, numbers, symbols and even emojis—and turn them into strange and surreal images.

Projects, Projects, Projects

Hello! I hope you all had a great Fourth of July. I’ve had many projects over the last couple of months and thought I’d share some of the larger ones.

Redesigning MARTA's iOS App

Over the long weekend, I began redesigning MARTA’s iOS app. Since it’s release, I’ve wanted to try out Apple’s new iOS component library.

New Year, New Newsletter

Hey y’all, welcome to the first edition of the Solomon.io newsletter. Now, I know this newsletter isn’t exactly new to most of you.

2022 Year in Review

Hello from my parent’s kitchen table! It has been a chaotic couple of weeks. This is not how I expected to spend my time off, but here we are. It’s funny.

A New Logo

I’ve never quite been happy with the personal logos I’ve designed. I’ve spent an enormous amount of time working on various options, but I’ve never been completely satisfied.

A Children's Story Written and Illustrated by AI

This children’s story was generated in an afternoon with the help of AI. This post discusses the workflow for writing and illustrating the story with AI.

Experimenting with AI Artwork

My first attempt at generating AI artwork and a walkthrough as I try and refine an idea a bit more. Lots of cool AI-generated images included.

Holly's 30th Birthday

Holly wanted to do something big for her 30th birthday—she just didn’t know what.