# design tool (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover design tool. Page: Feed: --- ## [ChatGPT Can Now Keep a Character On-Model](https://madebychip.com/articles/illustration-skills-part-2/) _2026-08-26 · Made By Chip_ Two more free, open-source illustration skills, added to the same repo as Guild Enamel. Premium 3D Claymorphism generates on-brand 3D product icons — type a subject plus a hex code and the color, material, and lighting all follow. Soft 3D Otter locks one character's face and proportions across any pose or activity. The second skill surfaces the same failure Guild Enamel had: ChatGPT won't reliably… ## [Agents that read the room](https://pablostanley.substack.com/p/agents-that-read-the-room) _2026-08-20 · Pablo Stanley · Pablo Stanley_ In Terminator 2, John Connor asks the killing machine sent to protect him if it can learn to be more human... ## [Builder Series 01: How a Solo Founder Ships Her Entire Product and Catches AI Slop](https://madebychip.com/articles/builder-series-01-solo-founder-catherine/) _2026-08-15 · Made By Chip_ Catherine isn't a coder or a designer, but she designed, built, and shipped her entire product—Annsa—solo. Her first Figma Make prototype turned out to be AI slop, so she rebuilt every component by hand, eight to ten options at a time, before ever touching Claude Code. Now she splits real work across four models by job—Claude for context, Codex for visuals, Grok for critique, Cursor for end-to-end… ## [ChatGPT Can Actually Stay On-Brand Now](https://madebychip.com/articles/illustration-skills/) _2026-08-01 · Made By Chip_ Guild Enamel is a free, open-source illustration skill—instructions, prompt library, and reference images in one GitHub repo—that gets ChatGPT to generate consistent on-brand enamel badges, milestones, streak chips, and limited editions every time. Setup is one paste into a ChatGPT Project: drop in your brand hex codes, upload the reference images and prompt library, and you're generating. The one… ## [Five Shaders, Zero Code](https://madebychip.com/articles/shaders/) _2026-07-28 · Made By Chip_ Paper's GPU shaders replace After Effects for animated logos, UI buttons, and backgrounds—no custom code, no motion-design background required. In this one, I take five real interfaces and show exactly how a handful of shaders inside Paper turn each of them from flat to alive: an animated bento-grid logo, a full three-layer footer, a moody fluted-glass hero background, a pulsing AI-agent button,… ## [Building hilos](https://pablostanley.substack.com/p/building-hilos) _2026-07-20 · Pablo Stanley · Pablo Stanley_ A workspace where your team and agents ship stuff together ## [One Artboard, Zero Code](https://madebychip.com/articles/design-to-code/) _2026-07-20 · Made By Chip_ I designed a tutorial page template in Figma, exported it into Paper (a design tool with a built-in MCP server), and had Claude Code build the entire HTML page from the artboard. One afternoon, fully responsive, light and dark mode, working interactions. But the first raw output—before any design input—was a mess: crammed author row, broken assets, a sidebar covering mobile content. Once I handed… ## [The idea becomes a machine](https://pablostanley.substack.com/p/the-idea-becomes-a-machine) _2026-07-17 · Pablo Stanley · Pablo Stanley_ What Sol LeWitt’s wall drawings can teach us about letting the robots do the making ## [Airport food](https://pablostanley.substack.com/p/airport-food) _2026-07-15 · Pablo Stanley · Pablo Stanley_ There’s a scene in WALL-E where humans are floating in their hover chairs, and the ship announces try blue, it’s the new red! Every passenger taps their screen and their jumpsuit changes color at the same time. ## [The terminal became my canvas](https://pablostanley.substack.com/p/my-canvas-became-a-terminal) _2026-07-13 · Pablo Stanley · Pablo Stanley_ For most of my career, my creative tool was a canvas. ## [Web Coding With AI, Live (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/dup9DlgsUNUr) _2026-07-13 · **Sponsored**_ Collaborative screen sharing with simultaneous remote control, open source. ## [Five Motion Graphics, Zero After Effects](https://madebychip.com/articles/text-to-lottie/) _2026-07-13 · Made By Chip_ If you lead a design or content team: this workflow lets one designer produce logo reveals, animated lower-thirds, and kinetic typography (the kind of motion work you'd normally brief to a specialist or a contractor) using plain-English prompts instead of After Effects. Five animations, built in one afternoon, on a fraction of one AI subscription session. No motion-design background required… ## [One Brief, Two Designers](https://madebychip.com/articles/bitwarden-onboarding/) _2026-07-04 · Made By Chip_ Bitwarden's onboarding asks for money before value, trust before reason. I redesigned the whole flow by hand: research, wireframes, judgment, no AI. Then I gave the identical brief to Claude and a design tool called Paper. AI returned three fully-formed strategic directions in minutes, and caught one mistake I'd glossed over. But it couldn't tell which direction fit a product that has to serve… ## [Always on](https://pablostanley.substack.com/p/always-on) _2026-07-02 · Pablo Stanley · Pablo Stanley_ even on leave... perhaps even more ## [Token budget](https://pablostanley.substack.com/p/token-budget) _2026-06-01 · Pablo Stanley · Pablo Stanley_ … so, how’s your token budget going? ## [But he said I'm smart](https://pablostanley.substack.com/p/but-he-said-im-smart) _2026-05-26 · Pablo Stanley · Pablo Stanley_ On surveillance dressed up as appreciation, ## [Even if AI did it better, I’d still do it](https://pablostanley.substack.com/p/even-if-ai-did-it-better-id-still) _2026-04-27 · Pablo Stanley · Pablo Stanley_ Lately, I find myself wondering what the point of anything is... ## [Mute the noise and stay curious](https://pablostanley.substack.com/p/mute-the-noise-and-stay-curious) _2026-04-20 · Pablo Stanley · Pablo Stanley_ Claude Design is fun. The discourse is exhausting ## [AI feels like a drug](https://pablostanley.substack.com/p/ai-feels-like-a-drug) _2026-04-13 · Pablo Stanley · Pablo Stanley_ I forced myself to make pixel art by hand. My brain had withdrawal symptoms. ## [The Joy of Building Slow | !Boring](https://notbor.ing/words/the-joy-of-building-slow) _2026-03-05 · Andy Works_ A different path to success. ## [The World's Most Satisfying Checkbox | !Boring](https://notbor.ing/words/the-most-satisfying-checkbox) _2026-03-05 · Andy Works_ The Art of Game Feel (a.k.a Juice) in Product Design ## [ThreatCrush on GitHub (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/km4KEa8pDGrL) _2026-03-05 · **Sponsored**_ View the ThreatCrush listing on the GitHub Marketplace. ## [Serious Play | !Boring](https://notbor.ing/words/serious-play) _2026-03-03 · Andy Works_ Video games are taking over the world and it's time for Design to take them seriously. ## [The Future of Design Tools | !Boring](https://notbor.ing/words/the-future-of-design-tools) _2026-03-03 · Andy Works_ Game engines are the future of design tools ## [For the Culture | !Boring](https://notbor.ing/words/for-the-culture) _2025-08-20 · Andy Works_ Eventually all is lost to time, but impact.