I'm the CEO of UXPin. We launched Forge on Product Hunt today. But before I talk about that, I want to share what the last week taught me about what people actually want from AI design tools.
Claude Design launched 2 weeks ago. My LinkedIn feed exploded. I spent the week reading every take, replying to dozens of posts, and testing Claude Design myself. Five patterns showed up over and over.
1. Token burn is the #1 frustration
Multiple users maxed out weekly limits in 2-6 hours. One burned 25% on 7 slides. The community built a workaround strategy: Opus for first prompt, Sonnet for edits, Haiku for tweaks. When your users need a cost mitigation strategy on day one, that's a signal.
We built AI that's constrained to your component library - so it can't go off-brand
Something we kept seeing across every enterprise team we work with: AI design tools generate fast, then the cleanup takes longer than building from scratch.
The pattern is always the same. The AI generates a beautiful dashboard. Everyone's impressed. Then someone looks closely. Wrong button variant. Spacing doesn't match the system. The card uses a shadow you deprecated months ago. The loading state doesn't exist. A developer receives it and rebuilds everything using the real components anyway.
The generation was fast. The aftermath was expensive.
