Steve Ruiz
Steve Ruiz has a background in fine art and is currently founder and CEO of tldraw. He has become known for his build-in-public style on social media, where he shares the iterative creation process that originally brought tldraw to life.
Make Real: Tldraw’s Accidental AI Play
React Day Berlin 2024
Dec 13, 13:00
Make Real: Tldraw’s Accidental AI Play
This is the full story behind "Make Real", tldraw's viral AI experiment that lets you turn your low fidelity drawing into a functional website. It's half startup rollercoaster ride and half moral tale about betting on React — as Make Real was only possible because of the ability to put any React component onto tldraw's canvas.
Here's the full behind-the-scenes perspective, and everything we learned along the way.
Here's the full behind-the-scenes perspective, and everything we learned along the way.
Make Real: tldraw's AI Adventure
React Advanced 2024
28 min
Make Real: tldraw's AI Adventure
This is the full story behind "Make Real", tldraw's viral AI experiment that lets you turn your low fidelity drawing into a functional website. It's half startup rollercoaster ride and half moral tale about betting on React — as Make Real was only possible because of the ability to put any React component onto tldraw's canvas.
Here's the full behind-the-scenes perspective, and everything we learned along the way.
Here's the full behind-the-scenes perspective, and everything we learned along the way.
Arrows (At Length)
React Advanced 2022
23 min
Arrows (At Length)
Love linking lines? Join me in considering the humble arrow as both a programming problem and a user experience challenge. In this talk, I'll present the many complex problems and solutions that I've encountered when working with arrows in my open source library perfect-arrows and later in tldraw (tldraw.com). With a narrow scope and plenty of animations to guide the way, we'll look at intersections, arrow heads, arrow head angles, and all of the different user interface issues behind authoring and adjusting arrows between shapes, other shapes, and points.
Panel Discussion: UX and the Design/Dev Overlap
React Advanced 2022
28 min
Panel Discussion: UX and the Design/Dev Overlap