No disagreeing with your points. I can see the passion in your reply :)

But Hetzner Cloud UX/UI is wonderful, compared to the rivals, Digital Ocean, Google, AWS (yea those are bigger and offer more, but still)

These are nice (and ofc not set in stone).

Me not being a "traditional or natural" designer, I like to have a set of best practises recipes or laws. These laws might be difficult to constantly hold in your head. I think this is a PERFECT starting point for AI to "bulk check" some screens.

Honestly I would map it to a short-cut, like I map "format source code" to a shortcut. If you building business software a set of laws or (shortcut mapped to them) can be really useful as a sanity check.

In fact I just did that:

- Downloaded the UX Laws as a screenshot

- Downloaded a screenshot of a dashboard (a userform might have worked better)

- Asked ChatGPT and Claude to do a review with those laws in mind and then to create a new mockup based on those recommendations

Project 1: CMMS Dashboard For Maintenance (fast food chain)

- Dashboard old: https://imgur.com/a/R3wrMpr

- Dashboard new (Claude): https://imgur.com/a/cYq4gE8

Project 2: https://swellslots.com (Surf Forecast App, arcade look and feel)

- Forecast old: https://imgur.com/a/W3daZrP

- Forecast new: https://imgur.com/a/kNi2Nvg

I feel like for Project 1 at least, the old dashboard is better than the new one.

The problem with a set of mutually conflicting laws like this is that good designers are able to intuitively understand which ones to ignore and which ones to use for a particular project.

"Content not available in your region.

Learn more about Imgur access in the United Kingdom"

will someone please think of the children?

In the first project, it seems that the old dashboard is intended for a manager doing reporting while the new dashboard is intended for a staff member actually handling the tickets. Did you have anything at all in the prompt with a specific purpose/role, or was it left open?

Congrats on shipping !

I love that most of my (small but important) set of keyboard shortcuts from VSCode jsut works.

- Terminal - Ctrl + P (and siblings).

Suggestion (minor):

To me, font size is as import these days as dark/light mode. Would be cool if basic font-size (ui panel etc, were part of default/first-run config)

Also like that AI is a "first class citizen" it seems on Zed.

Well done guys :)

Check out hetzner ui (regardless if you like their services, i know some ppl have opions or experiences lol) BUT, their cloud ux/ui is fantasties for a cloud company!

I worked extensively with Hetzner and I love them! But it think they are in a different class than these other providers, mainly in terms of global presence so I didn't include them and wouldn't for instance recommend them to my current employer. But indeed the Hetzner console is great. The robot not so much, but it's serviceable.

Agreed ! So what

and I’ve been to Hastings, and I’ve been to Brighton, I’ve been to Eastbourne too

Or "It turns out..." Somehow it just bugs me, and I'm usually so laidback

English is not my first language, although I am ok with it, whenever I write I always pump it through an AI first with a prompt of "Make it better English", especially if its a business email with English speaking clients.

I enjoyed your article and shared it on my family-geek-whatsapp group

Been a long time i3 user. Usually works well if you put in the initial time. But of late been very happy with Xubuntu (xfce)

I had to migrate away from Xubuntu (xfce) due to the poor HiDPI support. Kubuntu (KDE/Plasma) is now my current desktop of choice.

Why not both? XFCE + i3 make a great pair.

I use XFCE too, simple and doesn’t get in the way.

Super happy customer for about 5 years now..

And i say it every time they came up: Their cloud UX is brilliant and simple! Compared to the big ones out there.

I like the name ! :)

Me too but I loove the icon

thanks, it's my hand traced over and then made pretty.