UX Research · UX Collective
How to become an AI Designer
A realistic guide to shipping your own designs. Your company wants you to use more tokens. Engineers are shipping faster than you can prototype. Vibecoded slop is all over your LinkedIn feed. Agents are the future. Figma’s over. Anthropic just released Claude Design. Taste is everything. Eng just shipped another PR! Design is dead. Actually, you should use less tokens now. Wait, maybe Figma is back —did you catch that Config talk? Eng shipped something again! Your Agents need Design Skills. What even is a Design Skill? Do *you* still have design skills??? No matter where you live in the world right now, roles across the tech sector are drastically changing. However here in San Francisco, at the epicenter of the so-called AI Bubble , we have both the privilege and burden of experiencing this change more than most. Every company in town is sprinting towards one goal: building the elusive ‘AI native’ team. The ask is direct and urgent: optimize workflows across all disciplines, 10x productivity and ship the future. But how does an AI workflow apply to something as creative and ambiguous as Design? How do you optimize craft, or 10x design thinking? These are the questions I have spent the past year trying to solve for. Candidly, I don’t have all the answers yet — but I don’t think anyone else does either. In a world where tools, roles and expectations are constantly evolving, I believe the best we can do as a design community is share our learnings, and pave a new path forward together. When I joined Amplitude a few months ago to design Agent Analytics , our new Observability and Evals platform, I had never shipped a PR in my life. Today, I pretty much own our team’s frontend. It took a lot for me to get to where I am today, and although I had a lot of support, there wasn’t exactly a playbook I could follow at the time. So hopefully, this gives you a bit more of a head start! Before I jump in, I have added a short glossary below that you might want to take a look at — j
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