Trading 25 Years of Pixel Pushing for AI Strategy: The Token Slot Machine, You're Doing UX Backwards, and Why Two Agents Beat Two Hundred Skills
After 25 years of UX design, Marten Angner spent his first 20 minutes with the BMad method and called it a love story. Five months later he is rebuilding how Whiteport Design Studio works, and rethinking what a designer is even for. In this conversation Marten walks through the moment AI clicked for him, why specs are the new code, and the mindset shift that separates designers who stay stuck from designers who get ten times faster. What we cover: - The 20-minute love story, and what made BMad different from every other AI tool he tried - "Salad before dessert": why most teams approach AI in exactly the wrong order - Boxing the AI in with documents so it stays on the rails instead of going Vegas slot machine - Sketch to spec to code as a working pipeline, not a slogan - The pixel pusher to strategist identity reframe, and what it costs to make - The trigger map: why we are building this, for whom, and what changes - Seven agents you can name versus two hundred slash commands you cannot remember - Iteration speed: from one cycle a year to ten in a day, and the warning that comes with it - Brilliance takes brain cycles: where AI gets you clear, and where it cannot make you smart - Saga and Freya: giving everyone in the company a strategy driver's license --- bmadcode.com