Dive Club 🤿 Designer's toolkit for Claude Code
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Jan 7, 2026 In this engaging discussion, Kyle Zantos, a design technologist and expert in UX Tools Labs, shares insights on enhancing design workflows with AI. He emphasizes the importance of using visual tools like Cursor for quick edits and highlights the value of creating 'playgrounds' for prototyping ideas. Kyle advises designers on combining references to refine aesthetic judgment and discusses automating style with the compound engineering plugin. He also stresses learning design philosophies over commands for a dynamic approach in a rapidly evolving tech landscape.
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Use Visual Editors For Fast UI Tweaks
- Use visual editors like Cursor's to make quick UI tweaks without deep prompt engineering or jumping into full code editors.
- Experiment interactively to iterate spacing and layout before committing to deeper engineering work.
Make Playgrounds For Design Experiments
- Build a small playground for any UI idea you can't find ready-made.
- Use that playground to test variations and then extract the working code into your project.
Translate Visual Taste Into Code Language
- Learning developer terminology helps translate visual ideas into solvable code prompts.
- Or ask Claude Code to study a source and implement the effect so you can learn by example.