How to build your own internal tool

By Designer Tom

Categories: Design, Product

Transcript Excerpt

We just published the state of prototyping report for 2026 and this is a wild stat. Designers who are AI coding rate their workflow satisfaction a seven out of 10 and everyone else reported a five. But what's interesting is many of these designers are building their own tools for themselves and things like sliders, these little utilities, things that make their lives easier in their workflows. And this is interesting because the friction has always been in the dev setup. So I decided to try some...