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What I'm figuring out.

Writing about what I'm learning as I incorporate AI deeply into my design workflow: building design systems that agents can actually use, writing literal Claude Skills to automate how I work, and figuring out what it means to be a designer in 2026.

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CanvasInteraction DesignClaudeSide Project

Ask what you can give

Six people over four hours at the Fashion Nova office. The normal move afterwards is six emails that say the same thing with the names swapped. I built the office instead: an isometric floor you walk around, leaving a note with each person who interviewed me.

Aug 2026 · 1 min readRead
MCPAI WorkflowClaudeOpen Source

figma-comments-mcp: an MCP server so Claude can read your comments

Every round of design feedback went through me as a copy-paste layer between Figma and Claude. I built an MCP server that reads comment threads and Dev Mode annotations directly, scoped to the frame you link, and never writes back.

Aug 2026 · 4 min readRead
Design SystemsAI WorkflowClaudeOpen Source

ds-specs: a Claude Skill for LLM-first design systems, with two-way Figma sync

The design system fix I wrote about last time lived inside one project. I rebuilt it as ds-specs, an installable Claude Skill with a two-way Figma bridge and five enforcement gates, and put it on GitHub for other designers to use.

Aug 2026 · 5 min readRead
AI WorkflowPrototypingFigma

I went looking for a Figma replacement.

I spent a year obsessively testing every AI prototyping tool that came out, looking for something to replace Figma. Twelve tools survived. None of them replaced it. What I built instead was a stack, and one small tool of my own.

Aug 2026 · 7 min readRead
Design SystemsAI WorkflowClaude

My trial and error making a design system legible for agents

Vibe coding changed how teams build. The design system is the only thing keeping the product from looking like five different apps, but agents need it in a completely different format than the one I built it in.

Jun 2026 · 6 min readRead
Resources

A running reading list

A living repository of articles, tools, repos, podcasts, and people who have shaped how I think about AI and design. Grouped by topic and updated as I find things worth keeping.

Jun 2026 · Living docRead

A space to learn together.

The AI tools we use are moving faster than any one person can track. I am building a Slack and Discord community for designers who are figuring this out, sharing workflows, Claude Skills, and what's actually working in practice.

If you're interested in joining, reach out on LinkedIn.