John Hanacek
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Beyond Chat: Build Custom UI for Agentic Engineering

30 min
Oct 30, 2026 2:00 PM

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What you'll learn

Custom Control Examples

What's possible across simple controls, creative coding, and motion graphic editing systems from real work

Ideal approaches

How to get started prompting custom controls of low, medium and high complexity

Design Balance Considerations

How to balance complexity and polish of UI with core goal of project, know when to hold em or fold em

Why this topic matters

Creating with AI coding tools gives an incredible power. Now ideas can be made manifest fast. But when it comes time to iterate, the process becomes tedious fast. How do we keep the expressive flow while using AI coding tools? We make custom on-demand UI to let us tweak everything directly. Get recursive and make UI for your projects. From multimedia, dashboards, web design, art and more, learn tips and tricks for crafting your ideal instruments.

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John Hanacek

John Hanacek

Design Engineer with a background in tools for scientists, thinkers and builders

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