Select Interactive
Insights on web development, agentic AI, UX, and the modern web stack
Perspectives on design, engineering, and the web from the Select Interactive team.
Latest Web Development & UX Insights
Built for Speed: The Engineering Behind Our Near-Perfect Lighthouse Performance Score
The New Design-to-Development Workflow: How Figma MCP and Cursor AI Agents Deliver Faster, Pixel-Perfect Builds
From Ticket to Deployed: Our Agentic AI Development Workflow
Building Ask: How We Put Our Entire Website Into an AI Assistant
How We Use AI-Assisted Development to Ship Faster and Catch Issues Earlier
More Articles on Web Design, Development & AI
From Zero to Near-MVP in Under Two Weeks: How We Guided a Small Dev Team Through Agentic AI Scaffolding and Modern Stack Adoption
A real case study showing how Cursor, Claude Code, and targeted prompting accelerated a small team’s React plus TanStack plus shadcn/ui project from a blank slate to a functional near-MVP in record time.
Read articleThe TanStack Ecosystem: How We Build Websites and Web Apps the Right Way
A deep dive into how and why we use TanStack Start, Router, Query, Form, DB, Table, and AI, and why choosing the right rendering strategy from the start changes everything.
Read articlePreparing Your Tech Stack for Agentic AI: What Web Applications Need to Support Autonomous Agents
API design patterns, event-driven architectures, and human-in-the-loop workflows, how we are building for the next wave of AI now so you are not scrambling later.
Read articleCustom Web Apps vs Low-Code Platforms: A 5-Year TCO Comparison
Low-code platforms like OutSystems, Mendix, Power Platform, and Retool promise a faster start, but the five-year total cost of ownership for an enterprise web application tells a very different story. Here is what actually shows up on the invoice, year by year.
Read articleOptimizing Our Developer and User Experience
A look into why the tools a development team chooses, TanStack, shadcn/ui, and TypeScript, have a direct impact on the quality, speed, and longevity of the products we build for clients.
Read articleWhy We Build with Prismic and Strapi Instead of WordPress or Squarespace
WordPress leads every annual report on hacked CMS platforms. Squarespace locks you into their infrastructure. Here is why we build with Prismic and Strapi instead, and why clients who have made the switch do not go back.
Read articleTanStack Start vs Next.js for Enterprise Applications: A Practitioner Comparison
A grounded comparison of TanStack Start and Next.js for enterprise web applications: routing model, server primitives, type safety, deployment surface, and the operational implications that show up in year two.
Read articleCustom Web Development Agency vs SaaS Website Builder: An Enterprise Decision Guide
When does a SaaS website builder actually carry an enterprise application, and when does it quietly cap the business? A side-by-side decision guide for teams evaluating a custom web development agency for enterprise applications.
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