Perverse vibes, Figma’s future IPO, 20+ GenAI UX patterns

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3 min readMay 26, 2025

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“Its “almost there” quality — the feeling we’re just one prompt away from the perfect solution — is what makes it so addicting. Vibe coding operates on the principle of variable-ratio reinforcement, a powerful form of operant conditioning where rewards come unpredictably. Unlike fixed rewards, this intermittent success pattern (“the code works! it’s brilliant! it just broke! wtf!”), triggers stronger dopamine responses in our brain’s reward pathways, similar to gambling behaviors.”

The perverse incentives of Vibe Coding →
By

fred benenson

Editor picks

Figma uses nostalgia for their future in IPO →
What happens when design tools grow up — and grow corporate.
By
Darren Yeo
Do people really want AI friends? →
Zuckerberg seems to think so.
By
Daley Wilhelm
Design for trust, then for possibility →
From horseless carriages to robotaxis.
By
Sarah Cordivano

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Make me think

There should be no AI button →
“It’s often unclear what the button will actually do. You may have a small text box to add a user prompt, but you’re at the mercy of the quality of an opaque system prompt.”
Products need soul but markets reward scale →
“Uber is the clearest example of a company that let go of the original story and embraced what the market wanted. It started out as a premium ride experience. Nice cars, polite drivers, smooth UX. Then it went public. Growth expectations took over. Fleet owners stepped in. Car quality dropped. The experience became inconsistent. And then came the ads.”
About showing the “open to work” badge →
“The reason might be that I do use LinkedIn professionally and that I’ve been both recruiting and being hired by large corporations. I’ve also been part of reorganisations, companies going bust and was on the wrong spreadsheet when mass layoffs happened. So I know how it feels to not have a job even when your performance was great.”