DESIGNING WHERE THE PIXELS ACTUALLY LIVE

Summary from the TLDR Design newsletter

A senior product designer at Slack describes how AI tooling helped her bridge the longstanding gap between static design mockups and real, interactive product experiences. Working primarily in Cursor, she now builds and deploys functional prototypes that teammates can actually test, enabling faster alignment and richer design conversations. The transition came with trade-offs — AI occasionally breaks existing work and demands smaller, more deliberate iteration steps — but the ability to design closer to the real experience feels like a meaningful shift.