Design, the web, and working with AI agents.
The 80/20 rule says about 80 percent of results come from about 20 percent of causes. In UX, a few screens, features and flaws decide most of how your product feels. Which is awkward if you've been lovingly polishing the other 80 percent.
Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, Cline and the rest are good at different jobs and fail in different ways. A comparison built on how each one breaks, what review it creates, and what a change actually costs.
Run the revision round on the client's own site, with feedback attached to the right element, changes made during the review, and one request for your coding agent.
Six visual changes to a Next.js dashboard, made on the running app and handed to a coding agent as one batch.
Seven things worth checking before a visual editor goes into your agent workflow, answered for Pixy, gaps included.
No. It has already taken a real part of the work, the damage lands almost entirely on people starting out, and the part it can't reach is the part that was always hard.
Balance, contrast, emphasis, repetition, and unity still apply to web design. The problem is that they came from a world where the canvas didn't resize itself, the copy didn't come from a CMS, and nobody added a chat bubble five minutes before launch.
They come from a 2001 e-commerce textbook, not from design. Here's the actual list, why only one of the seven is about how your page looks, and what it leaves out.
Yes, and building it isn't the part that runs over. Where the second day actually goes once an agent writes the code, and how much of it you can get back.
It can, and the code is usually fine. The trouble starts on the second version, when you're describing a page nobody in the conversation has looked at.
No, and that answer holds right up until the site already exists. Which parts of web design ever needed code, which parts never did, and what changed now that an agent does the typing.
Clarity, consistency, hierarchy: the usual answer is a list nobody can disagree with. Here are five rules that can actually be broken, and what breaking each one looks like on a real site.
A design review usually happens over a screen share and ends in a list of notes for somebody else to turn into changes. In Pixy the meeting happens on the running site: everyone opens the same page, the microphone and camera sit in the page, and what you agree on is already recorded for your agent.
Logged-in pages, open menus, errors, popups, and real data don't fit neatly into static design files. Pixy lets you design these states directly in the running product, with the real content and context still there.
Figma is a great place to design a website that doesn't exist yet. But once the site is running, you're designing a copy of it. The real site already has the content, CSS, breakpoints and behavior you need to see.
A shared link puts your unbuilt edits on the real site. Open it on any device, click through the real thing, compare versions, or walk it together live, before anything is built.
Coding agents can build a whole feature from one sentence, then lose an afternoon to a heading that's slightly too big. Not because they're bad at design, but because words are a bad way to say where something goes.