CAPCAT CLI

Reimagined developer workflows through a beautifully crafted command-line interface. Design thinking applied to the terminal. Reduced task completion time by 60%.

It is a cycle.

In 2003, designers obsessed over aqua Photoshop effects. Some of us used that time to learn web standards and CSS. When the industry caught up, the foundational knowledge compounded.

In 2004, companies searched for designers who could build layouts in Photoshop. Some of us were already advocating for UX methodology and the principles of Jakob Nielsen. It looked impractical for the companies at the time. It became the standard.

Now LLMs move us into the unknown again. Every technology shift produces the same pattern: uncertainty for those optimising for the current tools and processes, and opportunity for those anchored to the underlying problem.

The focus has not changed. It has always been about solving user and business problems. This survived the browser wars, the design tools, the mobile shift, and it will survive generative AI.

This does not devalue standards. Documentation, order, transparency, and attention to detail remain the highlight of professional practice.

But phase matters. In exploratory work, the discipline is variation and speed. You define the boundaries first. You establish principles of implementation second. You polish last. Applying production standards to an undefined problem is not rigour. It is the wrong tool at the wrong time.

The pressure is genuine and the uncertainty is real. But uncertainty is not the same as irrelevance. The fundamentals have always been the steadiest point to return to. Even when the IT industry is dressing up as an AI industry.