ABS Tamal

Something we keep running into on client work, and I haven't seen anyone name it.

When you paste a screenshot into Cursor or Claude and ask for a change, the agent sometimes edits the wrong element. Everyone treats this as a model problem. Crop harder, describe the element in text, wait for better models.

But watch which screens it happens on. It's never the simple ones. It's the dashboard with 5 competing panels, the settings page with 3 things called "Account", the pricing section where 2 buttons look equally important. The agent picks the most visually dominant element and gets it wrong because the screen has no clear hierarchy.

We often hear that users want fewer tools, fewer tabs, and everything in one place.
But does that really mean they want an all-in-one product?

There s an interesting trade-off between all-in-one and best-in-class.

There s probably a line where an all-in-one product becomes too complicated.

Adding more features can mean fewer tools, less context switching, and a more connected workflow.

For solo makers, wearing every hat is almost unavoidable - developer, marketer, support, product and often designer too.

AI makes this even easier now. You can generate UI pretty quickly, but a lot of products end up relying on consistent, polished AI-generated solutions rather than something truly unique or thoughtfully designed for their specific product.

So I m curious:

Do you design the UI/UX yourself when building solo?