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Introducing Shaders: a creative tools for anyone making things on the web.
14 interactive experiments to explore:
- make pixel heat map graphs
- turn words into particles
- bend images through glass
- or give an artwork a different texture
Tune the effects live and use your own images, videos, or SVGs where supported.
Make something for a portfolio, a brand campaign, an identity, or an idea that doesn’t fit a category yet.
Open source, with shadcn installation and editable code when you’re ready to build.
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my sister just hit 10k followers on linkedin, so i’m working on a rebranding case study for her
pen[dot]dev and gpt-5.6 astra have made the early stage a breeze. its browser capabilities are wild. I pointed it at my inspirations and asked it to pull out blocks and sections I could use for asset presentation. it just opens the sites, scan them, and comes back with what’s worth checking.
not a branding expert, but let me know if you’d love a detailed post on my pen workflow
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you’re about to see an insane number of ASD-STE100 post on your timeline. I’m shit scared of the linkedin posts about this in the coming weeks man.
We'll be spending a lot more time trying to understand the outputs of language models. A few thoughts, tips & tricks:
Writing. Something I've had success with: Ask your LLM to explain something in ASD-STE100, it's a controlled language specification originally developed for aerospace maintenance documentation. LLMs well-versed in this language and it comes with heavy constraints on clean writing style that I often find a lot more readable. Sometimes I've tried to soften it a bit e.g. ask for "80% of the way to ASD-STE100" because the spec is quite stringent. But even better:
Diagrams / images. Instead of writing, ask your LLM to create a diagram. These can be a lot easier to process, parse, and understand. But even better:
Web pages. Ask for output "in HTML" to get a beautiful, interactive webpage. LLMs are getting really good at frontend and can create beautiful experiences, animations, etc. But even better:
Explainer videos. The output format I am most bullish on is fully custom / bespoke explainer videos generated on any arbitrary topic. Experiment with things like "Create a 3b1b style video explainer on X. Use my ElevenLabs API key for audio narration". (you'd need an API key for the latter or you can ask your LLM to find you decent free alternatives that use your local compute). This is actually starting to work!
In summary:
- As LLMs get better, they will do more and more of the legwork autonomously, and a lot more of our work will rise up the abstractions into oversight and understanding.
- Luckily, LLMs can help here too because as intelligence and code are increasingly abundant, you can ask for large, custom, discardable software artifacts (e.g. web apps, video explainers) that would have never made sense to create before. Push the boundaries here and you'll be surprised.
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love what you’re building for design community. thanks for featuring shaders
we added 60+ new projects to builtbydesigners.com
including:
- Biscuit Camera by @daniela_muntyan
- on(.)design by @CharlesPattson
- Bencho by @cabralorenzo
- Movulab by @farrelput
- Barrie by @daveyheuser
so much incredible work coming from designers, and we’d love to see even more, submit yours
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you don’t get google’s strategy, they were already pacing the frontier before openai and anthropic even thought about it. google’s always ahead of its time, man
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your future therapist is using ChatGPT to get through school rn, you so better start working on your mental health yourself
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bots don’t have to be spheres with eyes. i have a better concept but will launch with a new product hehe
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why can’t we just not have the 5 hour limit in codex. I’m pissed atp. was having such a flow state, ugh
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now I’m feeling so bad calling LLMs words I can’t use here
77 year old grandpa on my flight was cooking up a vertical farming business plan w/ ChatGPT until takeoff. and he calls the AI "sir" 😭 the respect!!
we yapped the whole flight, now we're besties. this man is more locked in than all of us
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applied with shaders.solaceui.com but didn’t get it this time
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Brand Lab is live
An open canvas for taking shaders beyond the preview. Explore one shader across campaigns, identities and the web
- Add your logos, colors, and copy
- Tune the shader
- Explore variations
- Download your assets
Find a new expression for your brand
[Try it below]
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