HOW I DESIGN WITH AI

Summary from the TLDR Design newsletter

Product design with AI turns to slop unless constraints come first and the extra copy, lines, and icons agents love to add get removed. The approach favors iterating in a design tool like Figma rather than the codebase, building reusable component libraries, and validating results with preview deploys against real data. At Ref, the team also borrows interface patterns from existing products for context and stress-tests taste by critiquing drafts as a group until something holds up.