'Twas the Year-End of 2025

Every quarter, our Design and UI Development teams meet to talk shop and see what everyone's been up to across our labs. This Q4, we shared our favorite finds—things that shaped our work or just sparked inspiration and joy. And since AI comes up in pretty much every conversation these days, we figured why not let Claude help us share them in a way that evokes the spirit of the holidays? Hope you enjoy!

'Twas the end of the year, and throughout our whole team,
 Not a pixel was moving, not even a meme.
 Our Figmas were closed with their booleans set right,
 In hopes that good workflows soon would take flight.

The designers were nestled, all snug at their desks,
 While visions of Tillamook danced in their heads.
 When out on our Slack there arose such a clatter,
 We sprang from our chairs to see what was the matter.

Away to our screens we flew like a flash,
 Opening channels and clearing the cache.
 When what to our wondering eyes did appear,
 But a list of the tools that had helped us this year.

With Claude and VSCode, so lively and quick,
 We knew in a moment prototyping's the trick.
 More rapid than sprints, our discoveries came,
 And we whistled and shouted and called them by name:

"Now Tillamook! Now Godly! Now Pudding and Jitter!
 On Affinity! On SVGOMG! On Focus Friend that glitters!
 From the top of localhost to our client call,
 Now optimize! Animate! Prototype all!"

The visual designers—how their eyes, they did twinkle!
 Using Jitter for Viget, without even a wrinkle!
 Their scroll-based prototypes, were no fuss to make,
 Showed developers motion for everyone's sake.

The product designers, with a wink of their eye,
 Built localhost examples (Claude didn't shy).
 For AI-native interfaces, this was the way—
 To play with ideas, not debate all the day.

The platform developers laid fingers to keys,
 Exporting WebP files with elegant ease.
 With SVGOMG they optimized fast,
 From one kilobyte saved to ninety percent!

We marveled at Pudding, their onions so fine,
 Where animation helped storytelling to shine.
 And Antlii's portfolio, patterns galore,
 Showed generative effects we couldn't ignore.

Then someone spoke up with a curious admission,
 About Character Quizzes and product positioning.
 We laughed at this wild card, so random yet true,
 How a personality quiz became part of our crew.

But the star of our year, our communal decree,
 Was Tillamook's website—what brilliance to see!
 With brand and with motion and function combined,
 "What would Tillamook do?" became our refrain defined.

And so as the year comes to a close,
 Our team had found tools that helped us compose
 Better handoffs, workflows, and collaborative might,
 We'd refined our whole process and gotten it right.

We sprang to our channels, to the team gave a cheer,
 "Here's to staying curious throughout the new year!
 May our prototypes render, our icons align,
 Happy 2026 to all, and to all a good design!"