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As AI speeds up design work, the argument to "throw out the process" misrepresents how experienced designers work.

In my recent Designing AI Products talk, I outlined several of the lessons we've learned building AI-native companies over the past four years.

Large companies spent years rewarding the representation of work over the work itself. In the AI era, that has led to a crisis.

The thinking, trade-offs, and tools behind our design refresh.

A mental model for thinking about all the big changes that are happening as a single transition.

The messy middle was never a phase. It was the whole job description.

Great interfaces rarely come from a single thing. It's usually a collection of small things that compound into a great experience.

shadcn was never designed to be shipped vanilla.

We need more people to be thoughtfully and meaningfully critical of the things that are made.

Why the most important distinction in vibe coding is the one nobody's talking about.

Will AI agents kill design as we know it?

Go to the problem.

AI chats generate simple UI elements to gather context, reduce typing and memory load, and produce more useful, personalized results.

Use Figma MCP if you want to copy design from Claude and Figma Console if you want to achieve next step - letting AI agents edit design directly.

The visual feedback tool for agents.

I fundamentally believe that most people working to create things and put them out into the world are doing it because they want to make the world a better place.

Discover and install skills for AI agents.

It's time to retire that icon wrapper component.

Every hour spent getting the design right is an hour saved on prompting, iterating, and debugging downstream.

Teaching AI what designers know so it can work with us, not around us.

Claude just showed us what replaced it.

Audit. Govern. Document. Validate. Communicate. One skill pack, end to end.

Learn what to include, what to skip, and how to structure your AGENTS.md for best results.

Slots give you the ability to customize components without breaking the system.

Screen resolutions and the 320/360 devide mishap.