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samsolomon commented on SaaS Is Dead shayne.dev/blog/saas-is-d... · Posted by u/mooreds

samsolomon · 14 days ago

I have mixed thoughts on this post. I’m a pretty senior product designer. V0, Gemini and these other tools Can build pretty impressive prototypes. I am repeatedly asked how I am using these AI tools in my workflow. The answer is—I’m not really.

These tools are a novelty now. But I do think these will improve drastically in the next 5 or so years. When they have more context about the existing code base and design system and customer issues I think we’ll see a big leap forward.

Does that mean SaaS is dead?

Maybe small CRUD apps with few users? I think a lot of people on this forum miss that with enterprise software, business are buying processes. The software is just the codified way to execute on that.

AI is already making these processes different. But I think we’re probably going to see more SaaS to replace old and support new processes.

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jackero · 22 days ago

There was an economies of scale back then with OS-level UI components.

If Microsoft spent money on UX research that improved its UI controls, it would benefit a lot of people. Essentially the cost of that research was bore by all application developers.

The problem now? Every company is designing their own UI components. Every company has to bear the cost of UX research individually. It’s a lot of wheel re-inventing. UX easily takes a backseat.

samsolomon · 22 days ago

I work on design systems for an enterprise software company. I was talking with one of the engineers on the team about how great it would be if there were better built in browser-based solutions for things like autocomplete, select and multi-select.

samsolomon commented on Figma will IPO on July 31 figma.com/blog/ipo-pricin... · Posted by u/nevir

adastra22 · a month ago

It’s a terrible analysis that ignores that LLMs destroy most of the value proposition of Figma, and this is a last chance to find a bigger bag holder.

samsolomon · a month ago

I mean in the future there are probably no PMs, Designers or Engineers. All those roles are going to converge. There will be a bunch of people that build and manage the software that creates software.

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thibaultamartin · 2 months ago

Do you have specific books to recommend?

samsolomon · 2 months ago

The AA big book, as it is known. It's actually a small, but very thick book. It's the basis for all twelve step programs.

The main exercises related to my comment are writing out resentments as they occur—who/what wronged you, why that hurt and what part we may have played. Same with fears—what they are, how do they affect us.

Honestly, a lot of it is so simple, but it really forces you to think about these things.

samsolomon commented on Recovering from AI addiction internetaddictsanonymous.... · Posted by u/pera

samsolomon · 2 months ago

As an aside—my therapist encouraged me to go pretty deep into twelve step literature. The core of it is dealing with fears and resentments. So many damaging behaviors start as coping mechanisms for dealing with these issues.

I was pretty skeptical initially, but it turns out I also have a ton of fear and resentment that I never thought existed. My stubbornness strikes again! But if you're able to deal with and process your fears and resentments and then switch bad coping mechanisms to good ones—that will improve your life substantially.

A lot of it has been surprisingly eye-opening to me.

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samsolomon · 2 months ago

I agree with the general sentiment—over-optimizing for design can both be a poor use of time and lead to less than ideal solutions.

I don't really agree that Figma is forcing designers into a box. The author feels like there's an ideal workflow—a quick sketch that gets translated into code. There's no ideal workflow. It completely depends on the delivery team.

That sketch to code flow probably works well with a small team that is used to working closely together. I've been working with most of the engineers on one of my delivery teams for five years. Frequently, I don't need designs at all! I can just write a JIRA card and because we are so used to working together many times they can pick up on the desired result.

Unfortunately, when the product org gets larger you get a lot of designers and engineers and delivery teams that don't spend a lot of time together. You need the clearest representation of those components—often documented down to the exact props that should be implemented. That is exactly how many enterprise software organizations are using Figma. Design and code components have props (for visual changes) that mirror one another.

Overall, Figma is geared pretty well to how many product orgs are delivering software.

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porphyra · 2 months ago

That's part of the reason, but it doesn't explain the use of chrome, rectangular or round headlights instead of molded headlights that integrate into the bodywork, and many other design elements that have remained virtually unchanged since the 1970s. I think a lot of it is just that Americans like the look.

Even a brand new electric cab over garbage truck looks vintage: https://www.peterbilt.com/trucks/zero-emission/520EV

samsolomon · 2 months ago

TBH, that's Peterbuilt's design language. My guess is that the parent poster was talking about the 589. That's what I think of when I think about tractor-trailers. https://www.peterbilt.com/trucks/on-highway/589

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sealeck · 2 months ago

- Compliance

- Thing should work reliably (and you want someone else to be responsible for fixing it if it doesn't)

- Security

- Most SaaS is sufficiently complex that an LLM cannot implement it

samsolomon · 2 months ago

Enterprise SaaS are business processes that lean extremely heavily on software. Some of that could be amended by AI, but it's much harder for me to see that getting wholesale replaced the same way many consumer apps could be.