--- title: UX, Craft and Pottery: a reflection | daily.dev description: A personal reflection compares the strict, irreversible process of pottery-making to the iterative, ever-changeable nature of digital product design. The... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ux-craft-and-pottery-a-reflection-rpa7ojsis twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: UX, Craft and Pottery: a reflection | daily.dev og:description: A personal reflection compares the strict, irreversible process of pottery-making to the iterative, ever-changeable nature of digital product design. The... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ux-craft-and-pottery-a-reflection-rpa7ojsis og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/rPA7OJsis.png og:image:alt: UX, Craft and Pottery: a reflection og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # UX, Craft and Pottery: a reflection **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A personal reflection compares the strict, irreversible process of pottery-making to the iterative, ever-changeable nature of digital product design. The author, an amateur potter, argues that while designers can endlessly revise digital products, end users experience both pottery and software as 'final' artifacts they repurpose creatively rather than reshape. The piece concludes that as AI automates construction of websites and apps, human craft becomes the 'soul' of a product, distinguishing thoughtful work from generic, machine-made output. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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