AI-Native Design Workflows: What’s Actually Working
Designers from three LA studios share what they've learned from six months of running AI tools in real production design workflows — the wins, the failures, and the surprises.
Designing the future of AI in Los Angeles.
This group brings together UX designers, product thinkers, and design engineers across Southern California who are exploring how AI is reshaping the way we design, build, and ship digital experiences.
A community for designers shaping how AI products are imagined, designed, and built in Los Angeles.
This group brings together UX designers, product thinkers, and design engineers across Southern California who are exploring how AI is reshaping the way we design, build, and ship digital experiences.
Why AI Design LA exists
Design is changing. We should shape what comes next.
AI is changing more than the tools designers use. It is reshaping the products we create, the roles we play, and the way teams move from idea to something real.
AI Design LA brings together designers, researchers, design engineers, product thinkers, and creative technologists to learn from one another, share what is working, and question what is not.
There is no established playbook yet. That is why we are building one together.
What we explore
The new tools, practices, products, and questions shaping design
AI-native design workflows
How AI changes research, ideation, prototyping, production, and the way design teams collaborate.
Designing AI products and agents
New interaction models, adaptive systems, conversational experiences, and products that can act on a user's behalf.
Vibe coding and design engineering
Using tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Lovable, and Figma Make to move from concept to working software.
AI-powered design systems
Making components, tokens, guidelines, and product patterns more useful to both people and AI.
Teams, leadership, and culture
What it takes to help designers learn new skills, change old processes, and become more effective with AI.
Trust and human experience
Designing for transparency, control, safety, accessibility, and the messy realities of human behavior.
Latest events
Vibe Coding for Designers: From Figma to Working Code
A hands-on session with Claude Code, Cursor, and Figma Make. Bring your laptop. We'll move from a Figma frame to a deployed component in two hours.
AI Design LA Fall Summit
A full day of talks, workshops, and open studio time bringing together the wider AI Design LA community for our first seasonal summit.
Ideas
The AI-Native Designer Was Only Phase One
Over coffee recently, another Design Director and I got into a long conversation about what it actually means to transform a design team with AI. We weren't talking about how to get one designer to use Claude, Figma Make, Cursor, or Lovable. Most of us spent the past year figuring that out, experimenting in public, sharing what we learned. What comes next is harder.
What Does a Design System Need to Know?
We have been naming tokens for humans for twenty years. The question now is whether the same conventions work when the consumer is a language model. Spoiler: mostly yes, with three specific exceptions that will trip you up.
Prompting for Research Synthesis: A Practical Workflow
Not a tutorial. A field report from six months of using Claude to synthesize interview notes across fifteen research studies. The workflow that stuck, the one that broke, and the part you still have to do yourself.
Five Things I Got Wrong About AI Tools This Year
I was wrong about vibe coding being a shortcut. I was wrong about prompting being the main skill. I was wrong about the designer's role shrinking. Here is what actually happened and what I think it means.
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