One of the most impressive things Iāve seen a designer make all year is Meng Toās Dreamcut.
Itās the perfect example of what it looks like to transition from traditional designer to builder šŖ So if youāre interested in becoming a designer who ships then this is the episode for you.
Meng gives a highly practical breakdown of what it looks like to go from 0 to 50,000+ lines of code as a designer. And Meng is the perfect person to onboard you into tools like Claude and Cursor because heās spent 10+ years teaching designers how to code through Design+Code. So in this episode we go deep into:
- Mengās tech stack and go-to AI tools
- How to fine-tune visual details in code
- The secret to an effective first 10 prompts
- How to find the perfect first project to build
- How much code you need to know to build with AI
- What parts were easier/harder than Meng expected
- Why Meng considers Claude the newest design tool
- a lot moreā¦
