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Direct Manipulation

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A bold vintage screen-print illustration in cream, deep indigo navy and dusty teal of a large two-button computer mouse centered between blocky choropleth-map quadrants, with a tiny closed chat bubble icon left unused in the corner.

Product Design

The Prompt Box Lost 94% of the Time to the Ordinary Mouse

An OOPSLA 2026 study put a chat box next to click-and-drag controls in the same editor and found users typed prompts for only 6% of their edits.

A bold vintage screen-print illustration in dusty teal, deep aubergine and warm mustard of an oversized mixing-console dimmer fader whose control cable loops away, by a dashed line, to a note card instead of into the console body beneath it.

Prototyping

Figma Make's Properties Panel Doesn't Give You the File Back

Figma Make, v0 and Lovable all restored design-tool sliders in 2026, but by the vendors' own docs those sliders send edits to the AI, not the file.