UI Design Struggles Are Over 🥳

[joemanier]

If you haven’t dived in recently to the new AI tools out there for UI design, this video gives a good primer of top options.

It compares 4 tools head-to-head and is great for newbies or anyone whose strong suit isn’t design. Cheers.

4 AI Tools Compete Head-to-Head To See Who Creates The Best UI

[boston85719]

How do we use your tool?

[joemanier]

Hey head to https://claude.ai/.

What’s special about the process demonstrated in the video is mainly what is contained in the sequence of prompts over in our prototyping course https://www.nocodeacademy.co/prototype.

But you would still be able to get pretty far combining the free first prompt and your imagination https://www.nocodeacademy.co/claude-prompt-get-your-copy.

[senecadatabase]

Thanks for the video.

I think Bolt is awesome.

It will build an app for you in record time and you can connect it to Firebase.

I think it’s the future of AI for apps.

In my opinion, Claude and the others are ok, but they require several more steps to connect to a backend.

Lovable.dev is another one out there right now but if you try and connect the backend to Supabase you have a lot of buggy problems.

I had posted on here before about being able to build an app in record time and a couple of people thought I was exaggerating.

I wasn’t, and yes it is possible.

Anyway, thanks for taking the time to make the video.

[johncaulkins]

Curious on how the apps are designed though…I’ve messed with AI a bit but not for building apps. What little coding I’ve had it do for me was very overburdensome lol.

[joemanier]

You’re welcome and agreed that, from a tool agnostic view, the future is looking bright for non-technical people to build their ideas.

I do love how easy Bolt is to use for UI creation even if I’m only copying it over into Bubble ;).

For building apps in record time, I don’t doubt it for simpler apps made by someone who has know-how of an infrastructure that will make the code work. But for those not in the world of code, I’m less convinced for the time being:

But I’m glad you are mentioning this, we all want to be at the cutting edge, it’s why we started using Bubble.

To go on a side tangent –

I hold out hope Bubble makes the right moves with their AI initiatives. Since they are already translating our drag and drop page elements into code, they would presumably be able to go the other way and create the elements from code generated by AI (I believe the under-the-hood tech in their Bubble Assist feature shown in the Oct BubbleCon preso is some form of this).

Such a move would probably change subscription plan structure where maybe first we buy tokens and once we’ve worked a screen’s UI into how we want it, we say “create this into drag and drop elements please!” Then, voila, the UI part of the Bubble app building process gets 80% easier and faster.

Also, the way that Bubble abstracts away the infrastructure headaches of running an app are something I think people on the bolt/replit/lovable hype train are discounting.

Let’s see what 2025 brings :), because there are many people are tackling the same problem from various angles.

[joemanier]

The tools will evolve to get better, which gets better for us builders.

It’s really a bright point for the types of projects we can set our sights on, which to me is very exciting.

As it stands presently though, I don’t see full AI builders as there.

In day-to-day use, having an AI with the right prompting is tremendously helpful thou for organizing the structure and details of an app.

You can literally lay a blueprint out for your entire to do list – screen UI’s included, per this thread’s video – so it reduces the mental tax on tackling a new app project or the next step of an existing one.

Unless you looove spending mental churning time in the detailed weeds, which if so, more power to you!

[sem]

Great post!

I can images a shift to courses that teach programming basics coupled with ai prompting in order to be more effective with AI.

For a few months now we research in our company what works and what does not. At this stage we found out that effective prompt strategies to build out complex systems like crm, email marketing, CMS etc. Not simple boilerplate like things but systems that perform must faster and have more features than generally found in the market today.

Out goal is to automate everything in our company and we are getting there. Since we have our structure in place I cannot imagine what will happen if AI is 2x better in 6 months from now.