The playbook.
Practical AI and design workflows gathered from the DesignX room, public posts, and State of Design research. Borrow them, adapt them, and make them useful in your own work.
Workflows this week.
Pressure-test a flow in Figma Make before your dev touches it
Use Figma Make to prototype an interactive flow in 20 minutes, then do a 5-person walkthrough.
“I saved this because 90% of what designers argue about in review can be resolved in 20 minutes of Figma Make + 5 users. Stop debating in Figma comments.”
Turn 15 user interview transcripts into a research report in an afternoon
Claude's long context + structured prompting beats manual affinity mapping for most synthesis jobs.
“Affinity mapping was invented when you had to print notes on Post-its. We have 200K context windows now. This workflow saved me 3 days on the last State of Design synthesis pass.”
Browse the archive.
Audit your codebase's design tokens against your Figma library in 30 minutes
Cursor + your component library + your tokens.json — one prompt surfaces every drift between design and code.
“If you've ever asked "is our design system actually being used?" and nobody had an answer — this is that answer. I run it quarterly.”
Pressure-test a flow in Figma Make before your dev touches it
Use Figma Make to prototype an interactive flow in 20 minutes, then do a 5-person walkthrough.
“I saved this because 90% of what designers argue about in review can be resolved in 20 minutes of Figma Make + 5 users. Stop debating in Figma comments.”
Turn 15 user interview transcripts into a research report in an afternoon
Claude's long context + structured prompting beats manual affinity mapping for most synthesis jobs.
“Affinity mapping was invented when you had to print notes on Post-its. We have 200K context windows now. This workflow saved me 3 days on the last State of Design synthesis pass.”
Every tool in the playbook.
The AI-design stack is moving faster than any one person can follow. These are the tools and workflows worth a closer look.