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Jason Yuan - Designing 99 "No"s for a single "Yes"

Jason Yuan (https://x.com/jasonyuan) has one of the most fascinating minds in design so naturally I like to keep tabs on what he is creating 😎 This episode is a deep dive into Jason Yuan’s creative process for Hivemind (his new social intelligence product). He screenshares dozens of unused concepts, novel art directions, brand identities, and everything in between. Some highlights: - The journey of designing Dot - Why Jason doesn’t believe in user research - The surprising sources Jason uses for design inspo - building a system to generate infinite branded images - How Jason thinks about art direction and world building - + a lot more

Meaghan Choi - Designing Claude Code (and what's coming next)

It kinda feels like how design operates at Anthropic is consistently 3-6 months ahead of the rest of the industry. As a result, Meaghan Choi (https://x.com/meaghaneschoi) (Design Lead for Claude Code) has quickly become a staple guest on this show. In today’s episode we go deep into her design process, how she uses the new Artifacts feature, how the shape of designer is evolving, and a lot more… Some highlights: - Designing experiences that don’t have UIs - How Meaghan collaborates with Claude Tag - What it’s like designing the Claude Code CLI - The shape of designers that will thrive in the coming years - Collaborating with the models for execution vs. brainstorming - + a lot more

Meng To - Codex superpowers for designers

Meng To (https://x.com/MengTo?lang=en) is one of the people I keep tabs on to see how he's evolving his workflow as he builds his ideas with AI. So I sat down with him to get a look into what his process looks like now… (spoiler: he’s moved everything to Codex) We do a ton of screen-sharing and go deep into his strategies for prompting, how to get better outputs from the models, and more 👇 Some highlights: Why Meng built his own local Notion tool Why Meng writes 0% of his own code now Strategies for design.md and agents.md files How Meng uses GPT Image 2 to brainstorm UI design How Meng’s workflow has evolved in the last 1.5 years a lot more

Loredana Crisan - Figma's big bets for the future of AI design

This week we are going behind the scenes of Config 2026 with Loredana Crisan (Figma’s Chief Design Officer) https://www.linkedin.com/in/loredanacrisan/ We talk about Figma’s vision for AI, why design is having “an identity crisis and a renaissance at the same time,” and what it means to use AI to express what’s already in your head (not outsource creativity to it). It’s a clarifying conversation about taste, tools, and the future of design 👇 Some highlights: - Designing systems not screens - Loredana’s mental model for AI as a tool - Building your own tools and mini apps in Figma - What Figma is learning in their own UX research - What types of designers Figma is hiring right now - + a lot more

Brett Williams - How a Visual Designer Became a Builder

What does it look like when a designer with zero technical background commits to shipping something real? That’s what this week’s episode with Brett Williams is all about. He gives us a behind-the-scenes of his journey building Gather including: Brett’s process for iterating on a design Brett’s new prototyping.md skill workflow How Brett maintains control while building with AI Brett’s strategy for adding sound design to Gather When Brett relies on Figma vs. explores directly in code a lot more

Ron Goldin - Building your ideas as a design leader

This week's episode is with Ron Goldin who has led design at Google, Shopify, UberEats, and in my opinion... he's the perfect example of what it looks like to thrive as a design leader in an AI world. So this week’s episode is a deep dive into his journey as a builder and it’s full of stories: Redesigning the Shopify checkout Ron’s unique research tactics for UberEats Building MTCHMKR from scratch in Lovable Navigating the job market as a design leader a lot more

How Anthropic, Every, & Ramp design with AI

A couple of weeks ago I recorded my first ever episode in front of a live audience (at Ramp HQ in NYC) 🗽 So today I’m excited to share the panel discussion recording with 3 incredible guests: Meaghan Choi who is the design lead for Claude Code and Cowork Dan Shipper who is the CEO of Every and one of my favorite thinkers when it comes to AI And Bradley Ziffer who is a design engineer at Ramp It’s a deep dive into AI design workflows at Anthropic, Ramp, and Every and I think you’ll enjoy it :) The event was hosted by Double Diamond and Ramp

Andy Madrick - Why AI changed design handoff forever

⭐️ Check out Andy’s course - Craft at Speed https://join.dive.club/maven-aff-andy-madrick Use code DIVECLUB for 15% off Andy Madrick ( https://x.com/andymadrick ) is rethinking what it means to be a designer in 2026. While at Notion, he’s developed a workflow where he prototypes directly in code, ships frontend PRs, and uses AI tools like Cursor to own the final polish of user interfaces. In this episode we get a look into how he keeps all these things in motion and still designs with insane attention to detail. Some highlights: Building one of Notion’s most visible UIs Why recreating interactions teaches you craft Owning the last 5-20% of frontend polish work The “jelly bean factory” problem with AI output When to start in Figma vs. jumping straight to code How Andy creates prototypes that content teams can edit a lot more

Tommy Geoco - The state of the design industry right now

Over the last few months, Tommy Geoco has went on site to study today’s top design teams (Vercel, Perplexity, Metalab, Ramp, etc.). So this week’s episode is a deep dive into all of the trends he’s seeing around AI workflows and where design is headed next. Some highlights: Why 59% of designers build their own tools Tommy’s current tool stack for AI design work What signals show AI fluency in job interviews Why internal tool building is the new career path Why now is the best time to grow in the design community How design workflows have become creative director roles a lot more Ben Blumenrose (mentioned as having good insights on design)

Katarina Batina - Making big bets with design

How do the best designers shape strategy at companies like Shopify? That’s what today’s episode with Design Director Katarina Batina is all about. Some highlights: Balancing metrics and vision Redesigning the shopping cart UX Taking a big bet on the shopping feed How product strategy has changed with AI How to get people excited about your ideas How to make sure you don't overcook your app a lot more Katarina mentioned John Rundle and Luke Dupont

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