A sole practitioner building a stack of free tools, and the rules I follow to design them Jake White MCIAT | Jake White Architecture The best tools in our industry are built for the biggest firms in it. Enterprise software, enterprise prices and an enterprise IT department to keep it all running. For the micro, small and medium studio; client expectations for quality and speed are simillar whilst those practices have limited access to practice and design automation tools. It’s no bad thing that very large architectural firms have spearheaded software development. Much of what eventually reaches the rest of us was proven first at that scale, on their budgets, and for many years, we have been glad of it. But now something has shifted; the open standards and open-source libraries that those firms helped mature are now free for anyone to pick up. For a long time, the price of good technology was itself a kind of moat, the thing that kept the small to medium sized studio a step behind. That moat is draining. I don’t think that’s a threat to anyone. I think it’s the most interesting thing to happen to small practice in a generation. My … Continue reading Vibe‑Coding For Better Design Tools