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AI-Native Workflows
The drafter's dilemma: what happened to architectural drafting tells us where design is going
Drafting used to be a profession. CAD ended it inside one career. The lesson for product designers right now is precise, and the people who miss it will miss it the same way.
What stays the same about design when AI handles more of the output
AI changes what designers produce and how fast. It hasn't touched the parts that determine whether the work is good.
How to evaluate AI-generated UI without wasting time on it
AI-generated UI looks done before it's right. The things worth checking first aren't the things that catch your eye.
The AI tools actually worth adding to a design workflow
Not a roundup. A short, opinionated list of what I actually use, what I've stopped using, and what's mostly noise.
What Claude Code means for design-to-code workflows
Claude Code changes what a designer can hand off and to whom. The boundary between intent and implementation is getting genuinely blurry.
Using AI to speed up design documentation
AI writes usable component docs in minutes. It also writes confident, plausible-sounding garbage if you give it the wrong input.
How AI is changing user research (and what it still can't do)
AI has changed the synthesis side of research. It hasn't changed the part where you sit with a real person and watch them try to use your product.
How I use Claude to ship design system work faster
Not component generation. The value is in compressing the tedious, repeatable work so judgment can go where it actually matters.
Prompting for design: what works, what doesn't, and what's just hype
Most advice about AI for design is generic LLM guidance dressed up in design vocabulary. Here's where the value actually lands.