WHAT A UX DESIGNER LEARNED FROM BUILDING APPS WITH AI

Summary from the TLDR Design newsletter

A UX designer at Singapore's GovTech spent months building small working apps solo using the AI app builder Lovable. Building a real-time planning-poker tool exposed AI's limits: the assistant kept failing until a developer explained he needed a WebSocket, the technical term that finally unblocked progress. The experiment's lesson was that AI accelerates prototyping but doesn't replace design judgment or engineering expertise, especially for public-sector systems that must run reliably at scale.