Dive Club 🤿 Escha Vera - Designing Perplexity’s Comet and Using AI Like an Artist
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Sep 26, 2025 Escha Vera, a talented product designer who previously worked at Descript, dives into her creative journey at Perplexity, where she designed the innovative Comet browser. She reveals her process of creating a Figma-based design system from scratch after discovering the original lived in code. Escha discusses using AI tools to enhance her workflows, generating unique invite cards, and integrating music into the experience. She emphasizes approaching AI as an artistic medium, urging designers to remix outputs to elevate their work creatively.
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Thrown The Keys To A New Product
- Escha was handed ownership of Comet on her first day and discovered no Figma design system existed.
- She built a Figma design system because the C++ team needed prototypes and pixel-perfect mockups.
Design Systems Should Save Time
- Build atomic components and bake spacing and padding into them to make designs consistent and faster.
- Align token names between Figma and code so engineers can inspect and implement designs easily.
Hacking A 3D Look With Generated Video
- Pressed for time, Escha used Perplexity Labs to generate a spinning planet video for the onboarding.
- She exported and cropped that quick generated video and shipped it in production.