AI & Design

It’s been a couple of weeks since Anthropic released its new tool: Claude Design. The tool created a lot of buzz in the design space. Some…

AI didn’t kill design. It just exposed who was only pushing pixels.

Tested, ranked, and ready to use

Designers obsess over component libraries. The real system agents work with is how context flows — and most design teams haven't built that…

Lightcone[1] operates on a "generalist" philosophy. Most of our full-time staff have the title "generalist", and in any given year they work on a wid…

How to setup an agentic design system using skills, MCPs and Figma.

It wasn’t about prompts. It wasn’t about tools. It was about what happens when you stop thinking for yourself.

The Day AI Disappointed Me

I prompted Figma Make to generate a design system for a SaaS product. It delivered components, variables, layouts. Looked production-ready.

The full breakdown of what it creates, how it works, and how to get real output from it

Last week, I wrote a post titled ‘Design.md as a standard’ and it’s not like I have inside contacts at Google… or do I? Well, I do, but…

Design leaders are flipping the script when it comes to how designers function in an AI driven world

Vibe coding is an approach for generating functional products by providing natural language prompts to AI tools rather than writing code…

Why the AI Engineer Will Be Europe’s Most Important Tech Job by 2026 If you are an engineer in Europe in 2026 and you still think of AI as “just another library,” you are already behind. The …

I’m seeing more and more designers proudly stating “No AI used” for the fine UI design, graphics, and motion effects they craft.

Teams are shipping real features with Figma Make now. Landing pages. Dashboard components. Entire design systems. It’s not a prototype tool…

Forget everything you knew about “Pixel-Pushing.” The game has changed, and the bar is higher than ever. 💅✨

Every few months, OpenAI or another vendor drops a new “skills” or “tools” framework and everyone rushes to rebuild their stack. I keep…

Three of the world’s largest tech companies have published guidelines for responsible Human-AI Interaction. Here’s what they got right.

Claude Design has only been out for a few days and there are already a ton of general walkthroughs and tutorials. This week I used it on a…

Let me tell you about the morning Anthropic unveiled Claude Design.

GitHub repos that give Claude actual marketing expertise

Five habits that keep designers relevant as AI raises the bar for output.

My step-by-step AI workflow covering research, design, prototyping, and testing

When the model is the new medium, shaping how it behaves in humanistic ways is design

Claude Design is a new prototyping tool from Anthropic that has generated a lot of buzz in the design world. Some people even call it a…

A new class of leaders is leaning on design principles to guide their companies through AI transformation.

For our annual April Fun Day, we used Figma Make, Weave, and MCP to build six mini games that captured the spirit of play. Here’s what we learned.