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From Mockups to Merged PRs: An AI-Native Designer’s Playbook

Hosted by Ayon Bhattacharya and Xinran Ma

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What you'll learn

Get insights on contributing to a real codebase, live

How Ayon builds and ships features using AI tools instead of a traditional design-to-dev handoff.

Learn how Ayon unlocks experiences Figma can't build

How coding directly opens up interactions, motion, and speed up his day-to-day workflows

Multi-agent tips and tricks

Practical lessons from orchestrating several AI agents in parallel, what works and what doesn't.

Learn how designers actually pick up technical skills

A founding designer's honest take on what to learn, what to skip, and how it changes your career.

Why this topic matters

Designers' workflows have been transformed by how fast AI tools are moving. Designers are increasingly expected to gradually contribute to developers' workflows, but that shift isn't easy. Ayon has lived it as a founding designer, working directly in Cursor and Claude Code. In this live interview, Xinran sits down with Ayon to unpack how he works, with non-fluff tips and hard-won advice, and you're welcome to jump in with your own questions.

You'll learn from

Ayon Bhattacharya

AI-native designer & 7th employee at Eve

Ayon helps designers and PMs become technically dangerous with AI: able to prototype, automate, and ship like builders.

Ayon was an early employee at Eve, an a16z-backed AI unicorn. A founding designer with hands-on experience with product management and development, he now bypasses Figma to do 95% of his work directly in code.

He trained his team on AI-native workflows, created a code-based prototyping environment for the designers at Eve, and has taught 10+ hands-on workshops on topics like claude code, cursor, git, and using a design system with AI tools.

He wants an army of technically dangerous, AI powered designers to see their vision fulfilled.

Xinran Ma

Founder of Design with AI | 3x Author | Startup Advisor

Xinran Ma is the founder and author of Design with AI, speaker, and award-winning designer.

Design with AI is one of the fastest-growing AI communities with over 40K subscribers from companies like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and McKinsey.

One of his lightning sessions is Maven's most watched design class with over 7K signups, and he teaches a top design and AI course on Maven: AI for Product Designers

He regularly delivers lectures and conducts AI workshops at places such as Microsoft, Columbia Business School, UXPA, the City of Vancouver, Workday, and Pratt Institute.

Xinran has also written multiple Amazon #1 New Release books in UX.

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