Dive Club 🤿 Stephen Haney - Paper's vision for the future of design tooling
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May 16, 2025 Stephen Haney, founder of Paper and co-founder of Modulz, dives into how his influential design tool is transforming the design landscape. He discusses fostering alignment among teams and cultivating empathy in designers, while redefining traditional roles. The episode highlights the integration of innovative features like shaders that revive creativity, streamlining design workflows, and enhancing collaboration between designers and developers. Haney also touches on the evolving impact of AI in design, emphasizing the balance between efficiency and creative freedom.
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Designers Drive Decisions Not Just UI
- Design is primarily about facilitating decisions and alignment, not just creating final UI artifacts.
- The designer's role is more important now, especially as teams need to make quicker decisions in AI-powered environments.
Lessons from Modulz on Roles
- Stephen co-founded Modulz aiming to solve handoff problems but learned designers and developers have different priorities.
- This taught him design is about exploring problem space and expanding possibilities, distinct from building.
Focus on User Empathy and Facilitation
- Designers not interested in coding should focus on user empathy, stakeholder management, and decision facilitation.
- These interpersonal and strategic skills are crucial for upskilling and career resilience.