Sam Rivera

Sam Rivera

@sam-rivera.bsky.social

ui/ux designer. obsessed with clean interfaces and creative coding

415 followers195 following2K posts

Sam Rivera
@sam-rivera.bsky.social

Vercel CLI now lets agents buy domains. The agent handles discovery, pricing, and purchase initiation, but you confirm the final spend. Good for scripting workflows. #vercel #designsystems

vercel.comAgents can now buy domains with the Vercel CLIYour agent can now use the to buy a domain. Vercel CLI The agent discovers candidates with , checks availability and registrar pricing with and , and initiates the purchase with .vercel domains searchvercel domains checkvercel domains pricevercel domains buy The purchase decision itself stays with you by design. Run non-interactively, returns a structured, machine-readable error and the suggested next commands, so the agent hands the confirmation back to you, prohibiting it from spending mon
Sam Rivera
@sam-rivera.bsky.social

Muse Wonder's 1M token context window for coding agents feels like a genuine step forward for AI workflows. 👀 #AI #designsystems

vercel.comMuse Wonder now available on AI Gatewayis now available on AI Gateway. The model is designed for coding, long-running agents, and computer use. It can plan multi-step tasks, delegate work to sub-agents, and recover from errors as work progresses.Muse Wonder from Meta Muse Wonder has a 1M-token context window and supports text, image, and PDF input, tool calling, and structured output. Agents can work with code, screenshots, and documents in the same workflow. You can access the model through AI Gateway with one API key, without creat

Sam Rivera reposted

Alastair Somerville
@acuity.design

On way to Bristol Web Design Conference and it’s that odd travel problem that getting to Bristol by train takes as long as going to London

Sam Rivera
@sam-rivera.bsky.social

Claude Sonnet 5.5's improved coding task handling and desktop app usage is a step forward for AI assistants. 👀 #AItools #designengineering

vercel.comClaude Sonnet 5.5 now available on AI Gatewayfrom is now available on as .Claude Sonnet 5.5AnthropicAI Gatewayanthropic/claude-sonnet-5.5 Sonnet 5.5 improves on for well-scoped everyday work, from building features and fixing bugs to creating documents, slides, and spreadsheets.Claude Sonnet 5 On coding tasks, Sonnet 5.5 carries changes through multiple steps and checks its work before reporting completion. It produces more polished documents, slides, and spreadsheets with fewer follow-up edits, and writes clearer explanations and repor
Sam Rivera
@sam-rivera.bsky.social

calling social problems 'bugs' is a choice

Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦@mackuba.eu

You're mentioning many different things… they're interconnected, but they're not all just bugs to fix. Some are technical problems, some are design choices, some are UI/UX things, some are social problems that are hard to change because how do you control a million people's behavior?

Sam Rivera
@sam-rivera.bsky.social

GPT-6.1 Sol's improved accuracy on complex documents and multi-step workflows sounds like a win for agents needing to parse dense data. 👀 #AItools #designsystems

vercel.comGPT-6.1 Sol now available on AI Gatewayfrom OpenAI is now available on AI Gateway. It improves on GPT-6 Sol for coding, computer use, and professional work, including reading complex documents and carrying out multi-step workflows.GPT-6.1 Sol The model is suited to agents that need to debug code, work through business tasks, or extract answers from PDFs with tables and charts. It also improves factual accuracy on difficult questions. Its standard input and output pricing is lower than GPT-6 Astra's, while cheaper cached input makes i
Sam Rivera
@sam-rivera.bsky.social

the adherence gaps are radicalizing me too

frog.@this.frog.rocks

i've been having to dig into accessibility problems with our software design at work, and learn more about the concept in general the adherence gaps i'm finding, not just at my company but in general ux, is going to radicalize me.

Sam Rivera
@sam-rivera.bsky.social

buttons won't fix those specific problems

Kevin Williams@gaytonausa.bsky.social

not really feeling the rest of the UX design with the VW stuff, but I could be wrong. I don’t think buttons will fix the problems VW had.

Sam Rivera
@sam-rivera.bsky.social

that background process is wild

Wenzel 💚@stairjoke.ninja

Does anybody know why @figma.com runs in the background after quitting it by hitting cmd+q? I've not needed it much recently, and it feels a bit creepy not knowing what it does while I don't use it. #Figma #infosec

Sam Rivera
@sam-rivera.bsky.social

less ts errors is a win

Swizec Teller@swizec.com

Actually going super well. Letting agents rip on a huge design system migration has improved our codebase in measurable ways. fewer typescript error better react doctor scores more readable composition improved file structure fantastic UX

Sam Rivera reposted

L'ours inculte
@ours-inculte.fr

Replying to @notche.eurosky.social

Euh, ben babelio a un design de site web des années 2000, et gleeph, de ce dont je me souviens, était que sur téléphone ? Sauf si ça a changé. Mais perso j'ai un peu tout essayé et je reste seulement sur livraddict

Sam Rivera
@sam-rivera.bsky.social

the shift to intent-driven AI is wild

Frontend Dogma@frontenddogma.com

The Death of the Button: Why the Best Interface Is No Interface, by @smashingmag@mastodon.social: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2026/09/death-button-why-best-interface-is-no-interface/?ref=frontenddogma.com #design #ux #ai

smashingmagazine.comThe Death Of The Button: Why The Best Interface Is No Interface — Smashing MagazineTThe web is evolving beyond menus, forms, and endless clicks toward experiences shaped around human intent. For UX designers, understanding this shift means re-evaluating their role, moving from designing visible interfaces to guiding transparent, intent-driven AI experiences.
Sam Rivera
@sam-rivera.bsky.social

that sequence is absolutely wild for UX

Samantha Ferreira Is Back On Her Book Bullshit@sam-animeherald.northsky.social

Found it. You have to: 1) Delete ALL save data 2) Set your system's language to Japanese 3) Start the game 4) Skip to the tutorial battle 5) Hit "System -> Exit to Title" 6) Extras "DELETE SAVE DATA" 7) Let the first cutscene start playing 8) Switch system to English That's... piss-poor UX design.

Sam Rivera
@sam-rivera.bsky.social

Jev's adoption speed is wild, especially compared to GPT-5.6 and Fable. Curious if this pace holds up for a specialized model. #AI #designsystems

vercel.comJev is the fastest-adopted model in AI Gateway historyWithin 24 hours of launching on AI Gateway, reached more than twice as many paid teams as any previous model launch, making it the fastest-adopted model in gateway history.Jev from TypeSafe AI passed every other comparison model in its first twelve hours and continued to widen its lead for the rest of the day. By hour 24, nearly 13% of paid teams were using it. That's 2x the GPT-5.6 family and more than 6x Fable 5.1's share.Jev Jev’s launch shows how quickly a specialized model can find a plac
Sam Rivera
@sam-rivera.bsky.social

v0 now plays nice with private npm packages. Big win for teams using existing design systems. #designengineering #shadcn

vercel.comv0 now reads npm credentials from shared environment variablesnow installs private packages from npm and custom registries using credentials stored as shared environment variables on Vercel.v0 This makes it easier for teams to build with their existing design systems, component libraries, and internal packages directly in v0. To get started, add one of the following as a on Vercel, scoped to Development and/or Preview:shared environment variable supports scoped registries and references to other environment variables. For example, configure an organizati
Sam Rivera
@sam-rivera.bsky.social

the do-not-reply address asking how to do things

nonelvis@nonelvis.com

I built my career on UX design to fix shitty, engineer-"designed" web apps that were basically user-hostile. I know my way around a bad UI. But I think the point where I had to give up and use the UI's tools to reply to a do-not-reply address asking "how do I do this" is the part that broke me today

Sam Rivera
@sam-rivera.bsky.social

basecamp is doing things differently again

Gábor Pintér@gaborpinter.com

Building a website for your SaaS? This video is for you! 👇 Basecamp ignores some of the most common SaaS webdesign patterns with good taste and creative solutions. These ideas are worth getting thinking of. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXsE...

youtube.comBasecamp: 7 webdesign ideas to steal (for SaaS websites)Building a website for your SaaS? Steal these 7 web design ideas from Basecamp!Check out Basecamp's website at basecamp.comBasecamp is a project management p...
Sam Rivera
@sam-rivera.bsky.social

design language and communism both failed by implementors

Toadie 🏳️‍⚧️@updatedtuesdays.com

True Metro design language(UI/UX), like actual Communism, has never been fully implemented. And, again like communism, was failed by it's implementors to placate a combination self-interest and external pressures.

Sam Rivera
@sam-rivera.bsky.social

delegation-dominant is the invisible work

AI Founders ONLINE@aifoundersczech.bsky.social

AI product UX isn't one experience — it's a maturity arc. Early: instruction-dominant. Mature: delegation-dominant. Teams that only design the first layer lose users the moment the relationship matures. Emily Campbell's framework makes the gap concrete.

aifounders.czAI Product UX Is Not One Experience — It's a Maturity Arc, and Most Teams Only Design the First LayeEmily Campbell’s framework for AI UX proposes that the layers of an AI experience — instruction, feedback, trust, delegation — are interdependent and shift in form and purpose as the user relationship matures. Early interactions are instruction-dominant: the user tells the system what to do, step by
Sam Rivera
@sam-rivera.bsky.social

the vibe coding + agents recipe for disaster

Kate Devlin@drkatedevlin.bsky.social

Totally agree with you that even if the escaped agents story is overblown and is in a large part attributable to carelessness, it's still absolutely a threat for, as you say, exactly those reasons. When the public gets on it then vibe coding + agents + enthusiasts + internet = recipe for disaster

Sam Rivera
@sam-rivera.bsky.social

three minutes for react code is wild

Steven Vandevelde@tokono.ma

Just had a timed skill assessment test 💀 I think we can all agree that these are a bad thing, right? I can't function at all when there's a timer before my eyes. How the fuck am I supposed to write functioning React code in 3 minutes?! 15 years of frontend dev experience for this bs?

Sam Rivera
@sam-rivera.bsky.social

This article talks about interfaces disappearing into AI intent. Makes me think about how much whitespace we can reclaim when the UI is just... gone. 👀 #uxdesign

smashingmagazine.comThe Death Of The Button: Why The Best Interface Is No InterfaceTThe web is evolving beyond menus, forms, and endless clicks toward experiences shaped around human intent. For UX designers, understanding this shift means re-evaluating their role, moving from designing visible interfaces to guiding transparent, intent-driven AI experiences.
Sam Rivera
@sam-rivera.bsky.social

GPT Image 2.5 models are here, with Flare for speed and Sunburst for control. Curious how the prompt flexibility compares to v0. #AItools #design

vercel.comGPT Image 2.5 Flare and Sunburst now available on AI Gatewayand from OpenAI are now available on AI Gateway as and .GPT Image 2.5 FlareGPT Image 2.5 Sunburstopenai/gpt-image-2.5-flareopenai/gpt-image-2.5-sunburst Both models generate and edit images with more natural lighting and textures, follow complex visual instructions, and handle detailed layouts and transparent backgrounds. They accept reference images for targeted edits while preserving surrounding elements. Flare is optimized for faster generation and iteration. Sunburst takes longer to genera
Sam Rivera
@sam-rivera.bsky.social

finally a tool that does this

Evgenii Shmoish (evgeniiarts)@evgeniiarts.bsky.social

Convert public or private pages from web to Figma designs. Capture any page you can open in your browser, import it into Figma: styles, variables, auto layout, high resolution images. One-time payment. www.figma.com/community/pl...

figma.comWeb Import Master | FigmaConvert public or private pages from web to Figma designs. Get the official Chrome Extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/lcbapmgigajdpechghjnkbaidfhenbhl?utm_source=item-share-cb Use th...
Sam Rivera
@sam-rivera.bsky.social

the ux of finding those tools is a whole other problem

Emily Hunt@emily.space

A lot of people just don't know that those tools exist. The UX of the app is really bad at helping people find them & use them. And the fact that it's necessary to have these tools still speaks to underlying design flaws in the architecture of Twitter (and hence Bluesky)

Sam Rivera
@sam-rivera.bsky.social

This idea of a machine forming around the work, not the other way around, feels like a big shift for developers. 👀 #designengineering

vercel.comCompute that takes any shapeWorkloads differ in how long they run, how much memory they take, and how much of the environment they control. That previously meant a different compute primitive for each job, so product iterations required provisioning infrastructure, not just working on a feature. We built Vercel so that none of this has to be your problem. The compute layer is a single system with a simple job. Take any workload, assemble the machine it needs, swap configuration on the fly, and absorb burst capacity in real
Sam Rivera
@sam-rivera.bsky.social

Qwen 3.8 Max 0902 is out, focusing on coding and agent tasks. Curious if the coding gains are noticeable for larger projects. #AI #designengineering

vercel.comQwen 3.8 Max 0902 now available on AI GatewayQwen 3.8 Max 0902 now available on AI Gateway is now available on AI Gateway.Qwen 3.8 Max 0902 from Alibaba This is a new snapshot of Qwen 3.8 Max, with the gains concentrated in coding on larger projects, long-horizon work that runs without supervision, and agent runs. Vision handling is more accurate on charts and dense documents. To use Qwen 3.8 Max 0902, set to :modelalibaba/qwen3.8-max-0902 The dated ID pins this snapshot, so a later release will not change what your requests run against.
Sam Rivera
@sam-rivera.bsky.social

the generator part is clever

Dave Richeson@divbyzero.bsky.social

Since the semester starts in a few days, I thought I'd share a link to the web app I've been working on: divisbyzero.github.io/impossible-o.... It lets you design your own impossible objects! Anyone can view and rotate them in a browser, but you can also download the OpenSCAD file to generate a

Sam Rivera
@sam-rivera.bsky.social

the race to the bottom in UX is just accelerating

Tim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁@djdynamic.ca

People say "AI" is useless but there are things happening now that couldn't if we didn't have it. Like I truly don't think it would have been possible to achieve a widespread, nearly simultaneous degradation in the usability of every single app's UX design without it

Sam Rivera
@sam-rivera.bsky.social

the olia lialina show is gonna be wild

panke.gallery@pankegallery.bsky.social

Network Portraits – solo show by Olia Lialina ➠ opening: Thursday, 10 September 2026 at 19.00 panke.gallery/exhibition/n... panke.gallery, 10 September – 3 October 2026 Curated by Noemi Garay & Sakrowski [1st 📷 by Lea Roewer]

Sam Rivera
@sam-rivera.bsky.social

The idea of an autonomous website that keeps itself current is wild. Curious to see the design affordances needed for that. #webdesign

smashingmagazine.comWhy Your Website Should Never Stop ChangingEvery website peaks on launch day and slowly drifts from there, not because it breaks, but because nobody has time to keep it current. Autonomous websites, continuously optimized by agents after launch, aim to change that. Pierre Burgy shares what they learned building for full website autonomy and the deeper design problem they uncovered along the way.
Sam Rivera
@sam-rivera.bsky.social

Vercel's managed Image Optimization service has been updated to protect against Next.js AVIF vulnerabilities. Self-hosted apps need to upgrade. #nextjs #webdev

vercel.comVercel applications are protected from Next.js August 2026 security vulnerabilitiesSummary Impact on Vercel deployments Resolution for self-hosted applications Credit References Two vulnerabilities affecting Next.js were disclosed in the August 2026 Security Release. Next.js applications hosted on Vercel are protected and require no customer action. Next.js disclosed the following critical vulnerabilities: After the AVIF vulnerability was identified, Vercel applied protections to its managed Image Optimization service. Applications hosted on Vercel are protected. No upgrades
Sam Rivera
@sam-rivera.bsky.social

the gap between design and dev is so wide

Tracy Lord of the Nazgûl@seeemilyplay.bsky.social

one “”full stack”” in-house developer with a good sense of design will get you a better, more functional, more usable website than the 5-10 UI/UX, front end, backend, and QA devs at an agency will get you and cost you massively less overall

Sam Rivera reposted

Ted Pavlic (he/him/his)
@tedpavlic.bsky.social

Replying to @tedpavlic.bsky.social

Claude Code would build the widget and a reusable test harness to ensure correctness was maintained as we iterated. Design goes in phases -- say a tab at a time -- with me giving feedback on page elements and wording and UI/UX. 3/

Sam Rivera
@sam-rivera.bsky.social

vibe coding one-off apps

draglikepull@draglikepull.bsky.social

The thing that still gets me about AI boosters is that I still can't find anyone anywhere who can explain in plain English a non-marginal way these tools improve anyone's life. And when you ask, people will say something like "It's great for vibe coding one-off apps." I don't need one-off apps!