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Google Is Trying To Make 'Vibe Design' Happen (theverge.com) 44

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With today's latest Stitch updates, Google is trying to make "vibe design" happen, reports The Verge's Jay Peters. The AI-native design platform encourages users to describe goals, feelings, or inspiration in "natural language," rather than starting with traditional blueprints.

In a blog post, Google Labs Product Manager Rustin Banks says that Stitch can turn those inputs into interactive prototypes, automatically map user flows, and support real-time iteration. It introduces voice capabilities that allow users to "speak directly to [the] canvas" for feedback or changes. Tools like DESIGN.md also help users create reusable design systems across various projects.
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  • To Hell With That (Score:5, Insightful)

    by crunchy_one ( 1047426 ) on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @06:01PM (#66048652)
    The very last thing I'm going to do is share my goals, feelings, or inspiration with Google. Fuck that. Hard.

    • The thoughts and feelings designers come up with are often just plagiarized smoke to blow up a client's ass. Nothing is lost by letting Google see that stuff; they probably already have an algorithm that infers all that stuff from an existing design so it's going to end up in the LLM an hour after it hits the web.

      • Re: (Score:2, Flamebait)

        by sg_oneill ( 159032 )

        The thoughts and feelings designers come up with are often just plagiarized smoke to blow up a client's ass. Nothing is lost by letting Google see that stuff; they probably already have an algorithm that infers all that stuff from an existing design so it's going to end up in the LLM an hour after it hits the web.

        Yeah yeah blah blah , artists bad AI good. Just come out and say you don't think creative people should have jobs, at least thats *honest*

    • Re: (Score:2, Funny)

      by Anonymous Coward

      The very last thing I'm going to do is share my goals, feelings, or inspiration with Google. Fuck that. Hard.

      Feel rejoiced! Chinese company Translivergrunt Inc. just launched a similar service where you can share all your feelings, craziest and wildest ideas and they guarantee anonymity and confidentiality,

    • Re:To Hell With That (Score:5, Funny)

      by PPH ( 736903 ) on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @07:02PM (#66048800)

      To crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and to hear the lamentations of their women.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by dbialac ( 320955 )
      Isn't something similar in design part of what killed Yahoo?

  • Because goals, feelings and inspiration is exactly what you need to create a reliable design / software.

    According to non-programmer product managers who know shite.

  • those of us who design what apps n stuff should do, we're not as worried (yet, true,) as devs.

    because almost everything out there, for AI to learn from, re- design, is terrible.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Xarius ( 691264 )

      That sounds like designers are doing terrible work already if everything out there is crap! ;P

      (disclaimer: i hate all this AI and slop stuff too)

  • My prompt (Score:3)

    by dsgrntlxmply ( 610492 ) on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @06:54PM (#66048792)
    "You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike."
    • Nice to see that some of us who played Adventure (aka Colossal Cave Adventure) on the PDP-11 are still around. "You are in a maze of little twisty passages, all different." It was a good time, back in the day.

      • I'm happy that (until relatively recently) adventure was still bundled with FreeBSD installs. It's a pkg today.

        Ken Williams, formerly of Sierra Entertainment, oversaw the production of a 3D remake just a couple of years ago. I've never played it, but it seems to get decent+ reviews.

      • My contact was on a DEC-20. One guy was in the terminal room playing it for hours every night. A typical night would bring one or two night bell calls from his wife. I poked around at it a little, then found that it provided a Lisp interpreter, which was more attractive to me than a game.
    • My favorite:

      >kill dragon

      with what? your bare hands?

      >yes

      congratulations! you have just vanquished a dragon with your bare hands! (unbelievable, isn't it?)

  • Encourages users (Score:3)

    by PPH ( 736903 ) on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @07:07PM (#66048810)

    Why doesn't Google try eating its own dog food?

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Anonymous Coward

      you mean like...

      Having a filter over all new youtube videos that makes them meet the minimum slop quota while using half-baked speech recognition automation to do quarter baked automated translation? And then telling users they're wrong when they complain, a process that is itself made extremely onerous because of their chronic inability to run their own basic helpdesk operation?

      Yeah, they do that.

      They don't learn from it. I hope you didn't think they'd learn from it.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by gweihir ( 88907 )

      Looking at the AWS outages and MS problems, it seems this would be an excessively bad idea.

    • Because they already have perfected crap UI.

  • Designed for cavemen (Score:3)

    by gweihir ( 88907 ) on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @08:02PM (#66048924)

    Seems to be the next stage in the road to idiocracy.

    • "Vibe coding: It's so easy, even a caveman can do it!" Now _that_ would be a great commercial!
  • When I say that vibe design is totally fetch.
    • I was so proud when my golden retriever was making a nuisance of himself by trying to get me to throw his rubber frisbee and I told him "quit trying to make fetch happen". Of course, I stole that joke from someone else, but still ....

  • vibe dildo (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Goodsuburbanite ( 10439816 ) on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @09:05PM (#66048986)
    I don't even want to put anything useful in writing on the Internet anymore.
  • All the stuff that used o be exactingly specified can now be vaguely described and you get a half-decent result. It's certainly interesting times.

    We really shouldn't be so surprised, Star Trek has been promising this style of computer interaction for decades. I think maybe we just didn't really believe it.

  • New Vibe App (Score:5, Insightful)

    by gtall ( 79522 ) on Thursday March 19, 2026 @03:45AM (#66049172)

    Mr. Google Vibe App, I'd like an agent that tracks google's anti-privacy actions. It should be considerate and take umbrage when it sees something wonky, and then pepper Google Central Command with messages to tell them to stop before the agent really gets pissy. And I'd like a nice GUI interface to it so we can keep up to date on google's actions in realtime. Can you finish it before din-din?

  • ... encourages users to describe goals, feelings, or inspiration in "natural language," rather than starting with traditional blueprints.

    Totally aside from the somewhat creepy aspect of conning people into training their replacements, is the VERY creepy aspect of mining their feelings for info on how to manipulate them more invasively and successfully. They are an advertising company, after all.

    The fact that I assessed conning people as only "somewhat" creepy, is a good indication of how much these fuckers have lowered the bar. A snake would have a hard time getting under it now.

  • AI graphics are total crap. Everything has a yellowish hue and is completely overrendered. It doesn't know jack about the elegance of simplicity, and even if you try to make it understand it overrenders the simple stuff.
  • We should invent an AI coding style called "Fetch"?

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