Tim Potter is a UK-based product designer, developer and co-founder of Little Thunder, working across UX, UI, AI, web, creative tools, games and emerging technology.https://timpotter.dev/https://timpotter.dev/blog/introducing-impromptu/https://timpotter.dev/blog/introducing-impromptu/A new informal lunch-and-learn for designers, creatives and makers exploring where AI and design meet, hosted with Chris Armstrong at Ormeau Labs in Belfast on Thursday 10 September.Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://timpotter.dev/blog/ai-will-eat-itself/https://timpotter.dev/blog/ai-will-eat-itself/Pop Will Eat Itself took their name from the idea that culture recycles itself until it feeds on its own output. Forty years on, generative AI is learning from a web it increasingly wrote, and watermarking might be part of the way out.Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://timpotter.dev/blog/connecting-a-mega-drive-to-the-internet/https://timpotter.dev/blog/connecting-a-mega-drive-to-the-internet/MegaWord has online leaderboards, but the Mega Drive never goes online. How a short code bridges a 1990s console and the modern web.Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://timpotter.dev/blog/when-does-a-design-stop-belonging-to-its-creator/https://timpotter.dev/blog/when-does-a-design-stop-belonging-to-its-creator/Fender is reportedly sending cease and desist letters over Stratocaster-style guitars. A look at what happens when a product design becomes so iconic it stops being a product and becomes a category.Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://timpotter.dev/blog/72-hours-with-fable/https://timpotter.dev/blog/72-hours-with-fable/I made an endless racer with my kids using Claude Fable, hours before the US government blocked access to it for foreign nationals and Anthropic had to pull it. This is what we built in the window.Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://timpotter.dev/blog/your-product-is-their-feature/https://timpotter.dev/blog/your-product-is-their-feature/Apple is reportedly building AI calorie tracking into the iPhone. Bad news if that's your startup. A look at Sherlocking, platform power and why value is moving from functionality to trust, community and workflow.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://timpotter.dev/blog/life-beyond-the-feed/https://timpotter.dev/blog/life-beyond-the-feed/On personal websites, owning your own corner of the internet, and why authenticity is becoming more valuable than reach.Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://timpotter.dev/blog/mvp-to-meaningful/https://timpotter.dev/blog/mvp-to-meaningful/AI has made it easier than ever to ship an MVP. But MVPs are not the finished article. They're proofs of possibility. The real climb begins when you try to make something meaningful that people actually want to use.Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://timpotter.dev/blog/claude-design-stitch-not-cooked/https://timpotter.dev/blog/claude-design-stitch-not-cooked/The launch of Claude for Design and Google Stitch sparked another wave of "design is cooked" takes. I think the opposite is true. AI is raising the baseline, but it's also making taste, judgement and original thinking more valuable than ever.Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://timpotter.dev/blog/building-megaword/https://timpotter.dev/blog/building-megaword/How I built MegaWord, a Wordle demake for the Sega Mega Drive, using SGDK, AI tooling, pixel art pipelines and real hardware constraints.Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://timpotter.dev/blog/hello-world/https://timpotter.dev/blog/hello-world/An introduction to Tim Potter's site, covering product design, creative technology, AI, games, tools and experimental software projects.Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT