Sam Solomon

Two plan-review skills—product design and architect—that shape better agent output before any code gets written.

Three views of the Brooklyn Bridge—sunrise from the East River, the tower from below, and the span lit up at night.

A free YouTube course on AI agents, the long-awaited move from WordPress to Astro and a weekend of photography in Lower Manhattan.

A free video course on Claude Code, Codex CLI and OpenCode for designers, PMs and engineers starting from zero.

A quiet morning along the Hudson at Battery Park City.

Bridges, fire escapes, and street corners across Chinatown and SoHo.

An interactive flow field of glowing particles that drift through shifting noise.

A single photograph of an atrium skylight.

Bridges, overpasses, and the streets they cast in shadow.

Statues, columns, and an empty Wall Street.

The tower from a few angles around lower Manhattan.

Tall ships and a lightship on Pier 16.

A short set of downtown facade and street views.

Bunting, hand-painted signs, and a closed door.

I took theater as my art elective when I was in college at Auburn.

A vintage Ford Bronco parked on a quiet block.

I have been spending a lot of time lately tinkering with native Mac app development, and I’m releasing my first one—a small utility called Garbage Truck.

Cable cars, atriums, and a wolfman with a coffee.

Thoughts on where product design is headed.

An MCP server that gives AI tools to directly assess what's happening in your browser.

HHacker News is probably my favorite place on the internet.

A canvas of particles that scatters under your cursor and explodes on click.

Agents are about to change how we build software.

In early October, I gave a presentation on platform thinking at an onsite for Salesloft’s product experience team—what it is and what it enables.

October is one of is one of my favorite months, and recently we’ve had some perfect porch-sitting weather here in Atlanta.

For years I used email drafts as quick ways to gather notes.

10 years ago Adam Wexler, Tareq Dowla and Sam Solomon founded SidePrize, the fantasy sports company that most know today as PrizePicks.

Holly and I didn’t decide where to go on our honeymoon until after our wedding.

We’ve been traveling constantly since our wedding.

From time to time the design team puts together short talks on various things.

When I began sending email newsletters for Signal Tower in 2013, I turned to a hometown business with a peculiar name and loveable mascot—Mailchimp.

Designer News is dead.

Should we hide or disable a specific element?

Back in 2014 I published my first Year in Review.

A road trip through the South Carolina lowcountry.

For Holly’s birthday this year we chartered a Pooch Pontoon on Lake Lanier for an afternoon.

I have been to Yosemite a couple dozen times over the years.

I recently gave a talk about generative AI at AWS.

An appeal to designers and product people.

Recently, I spoke about generative AI to a group of designers and researchers at Amazon Web Services.

Midjourney can take single character prompts—letters, numbers, symbols and even emojis—and turn them into strange and surreal images.

Hello!

Over the long weekend, I began redesigning MARTA’s iOS app.

Hey y’all, welcome to the first edition of the Solomon.io newsletter.

Hello from my parent’s kitchen table!

I’ve never quite been happy with the personal logos I’ve designed.

This children’s story was generated in an afternoon with the help of AI.

My first attempt at generating AI artwork and a walkthrough as I try and refine an idea a bit more.

Holly wanted to do something big for her 30th birthday—she just didn’t know what.