🎨 Design & UX

Everything on the design side — AI in design tooling, the shifting UX role, and keeping AI-built interfaces on-brand. Sorted into here by topic, not by which Slack channel it came from.

BlogFigma • Georgia Rust & Rodrigo Davies

Figma's Design Agent, Now With Custom Tools and Greater Context

Figma's design agent gains custom tools, richer context sources, and reusable skills.

• Build custom reusable generative plugins on the canvas.
• Attach files and reference Figma files / web / MCP connectors for context.
• Turn frequent prompts into shareable slash-command "skills".

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🎨 Design & UX🛠️ Tools & Apps🧩 Skills & Plugins

added by Adam Tomat • 29th Jun 2026

BlogVercel • John Phamous

Teaching agents product design at Vercel

Vercel's repo-based skill that encodes product and design decisions for coding agents.

• Design decisions encoded as a versioned skill.
• Keeps agent-built UI consistent with the product.
• The skill lives in the repo, next to the code.

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🎨 Design & UX🤖 Building with Agents🧩 Skills & Plugins

added by Adam Tomat • 26th Jun 2026

VideoWes Bos

Browsers and UIs are dead. Everything is chat (Wes Bos)

Wes Bos's JS Nation Amsterdam 2026 talk on agentic interfaces and Web MCP — pushing back on "chat replaces all UI".

• Frames the "clicks vs clankers" tension: build AI into your site, or build your site so agents can use it directly.
• Covers Web MCP as the mechanism letting agents use a site's existing capabilities instead of a bespoke chat UI.
• Argues chat won't replace everything, but it reshapes the UI landscape.

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🤖 Building with Agents🎨 Design & UX

added by Adam Tomat • 25th Jun 2026

BlogUX Collective • Patrick Neeman

The T-shaped UX Professional is Giving Way to the Polymath Architect

AI is dissolving the classic "T-shaped" specialist model in UX toward generalist "polymath architects".

• AI removes the cost penalty of working outside your specialty.
• 91% of designers now use AI weekly.
• The scarce skill becomes directing AI and catching plausible-but-wrong output.

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🎨 Design & UX👥 Teams & Ways of Working

added by Adam Tomat • 23rd Jun 2026

BlogPolar

Building an LLM-safe design system (Polar's Orbit)

A typed component design system built to keep LLM-generated UI on-brand.

• Typed components constrain what the LLM can produce.
• "Safe" means on-brand by construction, not by review.
• Complements agent design skills.

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🎨 Design & UX🧩 Skills & Plugins

added by Adam Tomat • 18th Jun 2026

DocsAnthropic

frontend-design SKILL.md (anthropics/skills)

Anthropic's own skill for producing distinctive, intentional frontend design — not generic templates.

• A two-pass process: draft a compact design plan, then self-critique for genericness.
• Names three "AI-default" clichés to avoid.
• Build with real content, and spend "boldness" on one signature element.

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🎨 Design & UX🧩 Skills & Plugins✍️ Prompting & Context

added by Adam Tomat • 16th Jun 2026