I'm (finally) showing how I design with AI

By Dive Club

Categories: Product, Design

Summary

Designer shows practical AI workflow using Conductor and Paper to rapidly explore 10 design concepts with dual states (default + hover) in parallel work trees—demonstrating how tight feedback loops between visual design and code agents can accelerate product iteration.

Key Takeaways

  1. Use Conductor's multiple work trees to spin up parallel design explorations simultaneously, creating 10 concept variations with 2 states each before committing to visual direction.
  2. Treat Paper (Figma alternative with DOM-as-canvas) as visual extension to code, enabling seamless idea transfer between design mockups and Claude/GPT agents for faster iteration.
  3. Capture design problems with screenshots, dump requirements to AI agents via voice (Whisper Flow), specify constraints clearly (what stays vs. what changes), then let agents explore variations.
  4. Conductor vs. Cursor vs. Codeex serve as interchangeable harnesses—pick based on comfort level; Conductor leverages your own Claude/Codeex subscription with multi-model bouncing capability.
  5. Build product feedback loops into deployment pipeline: share preview links, gather feedback, bring insights back to agents, iterate next version—Inflight product solving this specific gap.

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Transcript Excerpt

Okay, let's get our bearings on tools real quickly. Um, this is a lot of this is going to apply to whatever you're using. I'm a big conductor fan. It's really good for having multiple things going in parallel. It's not that different from especially the new cursor. In fact, the new cursor in many ways is a copy of conductor and it's really good at spinning up different work trees and then for each work tree I have like a set of agents and I'll show you how I use that. Uh the other tool that I've been using a ton recently is paper uh which is basically like Figma only uh it's it's an alpha so it doesn't have all of the functionality but the canvas is the DOM and I find that the getting ideas in and out of paper and like kind of connecting the two is pretty seamless and so I I basically view…

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