Eidos Design | Building with AI
Vadym Grin, Siavash Memar, Mykola KorzhAnyone can ship a product now. Making one people love is still design work. Product teardowns, AI workflows, and build logs from designers who ship.
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Building Logs #1: I Wanted A Chess Clock. I Ended Up Shipping One.
A new section starts today.
Building Logs is the record of the things we at Eidos Design build. Every product we ship gets one: the idea, the design, the code, the store, the hours, the money, and the parts where we got it wrong. and are...
The sycophancy trap: what happens when feelings become the metric
A framework for emotional design that survives contact with an engagement dashboard
For the past year I worked on an app that pays people to play mobile games.
Claude Fable 5.1 vs GPT-6 Astra for Product Design: Which One Is Actually Better?
Two frontier models landed within days of each other, both priced identically at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output, both carrying 1M-token context windows, and both claiming the crown. Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5....
August 2026: Every sandbox had a door
Hello fellow designers, creatives, digital professionals, and Eidos Design members!
Last month I wrote that supervising agents was becoming the job. I didn’t expect August to close the case so fast.
Eidos Design | Building with AI is a re...
Eidos Design. Volume XXXVIII: Your Users Already Told You, But Nobody Was Recording
Hello fellow designers, creatives, digital professionals and Eidos Design members!
August is coming to an end. Out-of-office auto-replies are being turned off again, your tan is fading, and you’re finally opening a shared document titled “...
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