4hands vs. others
For people who already have taste.
4hands is a product design library for designers and developers who already have taste. It combines lessons, live before-and-after demos and installable agent skills, with lifetime access for one payment.
| 4hands | A regular course |
|---|---|
| Design judgment: Your judgment comes first. Learn to make product design decisions and use AI to implement them. The taste, reasoning and final call stay yours. | Design judgment: AI-led output. In prompt-first courses, the process starts with what the model generates. |
| Adaptability: Principles that adapt. Use them across products, brands and teams. Build a system around the work. | Adaptability: Corporate system playbooks. System-focused courses teach you to work within established patterns. |
| Practical skills: Agent skills I use every day. Install the same agent skills I use in day-to-day product work. Concrete rules, ready to apply. | Practical skills: Philosophical skills. Concept-led courses can stop at ideas, leaving you to turn the theory into a working process. |
| Price and access: $200. Once. $100 on pre-order. Lifetime access to every lesson, live demo, agent skill and future addition. No subscription. | Price and access: Pay more as you progress. Tiered courses can charge again for advanced modules, updates or continued access. |
| Who teaches it: Made by a vetted lead designer. I lead design at Steel, building at the forefront of AI. These are decisions I make in real product work. | Who teaches it: Built around selling courses. In a course-first business, the course itself is the product. |
| Who it’s for: Built for your existing taste. You already see the difference. Learn to explain it, push it further and ship it. | Who it’s for: A curriculum for everyone. Broad beginner courses start with the basics and aim for the widest audience. |
The decisions in this library come from real product work: interfaces, motion, systems and the details that make them feel right.
Start with the free /tactile-design skill to see how I turn those decisions into something you can use. 4hands takes you through the thinking behind them.
Choose 4hands if you already recognise good design and want to understand the decisions that produce it. The lessons explain the reasoning, the browser demos let you feel the difference, and the agent skills help you apply it to your own work.
If you are learning design from scratch, a structured beginner course can give you that foundation. If your work already functions but still feels ordinary, that is where I want 4hands to help.
$100 now, $200 from launch. One payment, lifetime access. The full library opens December 14, 2026.
The first 2 lessons are free with an account. No card needed.
100% after Stripe’s card fee goes to Neda’s treatment.