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ADPList retweeted
Jun 8
Designers, which building agent do you use now?
49%
Claude Desktop
40%
Codex
11%
Figma Agent
0%
Lovable
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55 votes • Final results
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ADPList retweeted
Jun 4
What a wild surprise, @ADPList made the headlines in Singapore’s largest Chinese paper. 🇸🇬🇺🇸
James and I started ADPList in our bedroom, and now serves over a million people in 140 countries.
We free humans to connect, so they can dream bigger than we ever did.
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ADPList retweeted
May 21
Design is still underrated in SF.
Design is the act of understanding people’s lives and unmet needs.
As Milton Glaser said, "We’re always looking, but we never really see…it’s the act of attention that allows you to really grasp something, to become fully conscious of it."
Despite this, design has historically been an afterthought in the business/startup world, applied only to touch up a product’s aesthetics.
We live in an era of experiences, be they services or products, and we’ve come to have high expectations for these experiences.
With each evolution comes a new set of unmet needs.
Design is very much still alive.
ALT Two men smile for a selfie in a gym, showcasing the workout space and equipment in the background.
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ADPList retweeted
May 15
We designed a new ranking algorithm on @ADPList.
For context, we have 40K verified mentors. That's a huge # of mentors for people to choose from. It's brainfog!
I'm inspired by what drives networks like TikTok/Airbnb → learn what consumers actually click on, then reshape who shows up in their explore.
The result after one rollout window (48h):
>clicks up 168%
>views up 122%
>personalized paths up 3x
>errors down 72%
Think of this as an algo that works with you.
Next week, I'll open-source how it works so our community can see this transparently (scoring weights, feedback loop, eval setup, everything)
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ADPList retweeted
May 12
Fifth anniversary. ❤️
A 22yo in Lagos and a 22yo in San Francisco should have the same shot at a senior mentor.
Not because one of them paid for a bootcamp. Not because one of them happened to know somebody.
Because someone, somewhere, gave 30 minutes of their time. That's the world we're building @ADPList.
Five years in, it's already arriving -- 40,000 expert mentors, 1M connections, 500M minutes of conversations across nearly every country on earth.
Mentorship was never supposed to be a thing you bought. It was supposed to be a thing you passed down. Somewhere along the way, the people who could help started acting like access was scarce -- paywalled courses, gated communities, DM lotteries.
We hated that. So we built the opposite.
To our mentors: you proved that 30 minutes can change the shape of a life. To our team and partners: thank you for refusing to let this stay small.
The lottery of where you were born should not decide what you get to become.
Five years in. The work is just starting.
ALT A group of eight people poses on the beach at sunset, holding an ADPList banner, celebrating a milestone together.
ALT A diverse group of about 40 people gathers in a bright, modern space, celebrating the fifth anniversary of a community initiative.
ALT Two young adults stand together in front of a bright blue wall displaying “Welcome to ADPList.” The atmosphere feels welcoming and collaborative.
ALT A person in casual attire poses confidently with a long staff, surrounded by various swords and weapons displayed on a wall.
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ADPList retweeted
May 7
I have a new personal website.
felixlee.dev/
I'm not a developer. I built this v2 of my website, all by my OpenClaw agent (on Codex) built an AI clone of me, with Claude Code.
So can designers ship?
Yes, its the future.
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ADPList retweeted
Apr 26
Designers are the most underrated people in tech.
Apr 25
DESIGN: THE FIRST AI CASUALTY
I'm increasingly sure that 2026 signals the end of product design as a full-fledged stand-alone function within companies. If so, it will be the first role / function to be eliminated by AI on a go-forward basis.
Instead of hiring FT designers, startups are hiring / will hire design consultants to create a design system that the founder likes (this takes a few weeks max). Once the design system is finalized, PM/Eng feed it into their AI tool of choice to generate prototypes. The design system is refreshed annually by the same consultant.
Larger companies will likely not backfill design roles and will do some targeted attrition to reduce the design department to 20% the size it is today.
If you're a designer, I think you have two choices:
1. Become an entrepreneur: Start a design agency and become the go-to resource for design systems for startups and even larger companies. This can be a good recurring revenue business.
2. Become a builder: Add PM/Eng responsibilities to become a product builder.
Would suggest you embrace this proactively vs waiting for the other shoe to drop.
I'm really sorry about this - some of my best friends and the people I admire most and have learnt the most from are designers - but it seems inevitable.
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ADPList retweeted
Apr 23
Estoy dando mentorías gratuitas en @ADPList
📦 Producto
Startups
👥 Management
Y mucho más! Si te interesa 🔗👇🏻
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ADPList retweeted
Apr 17
BOOM 🤯 5K downloads in 24 hours!
ALT A person in athletic wear poses outdoors, holding a laptop displaying a design career resource website, with a building in the background.
Apr 15
Introducing Design Stack.
Today, we're releasing @ADPList's entire masterclass library ⭐️ 80 videos on design, career, AI, product and more (100% free) from all our flagship conferences.
Why are we doing this?
We believe opening this full knowledge base will move our community in the fast changing AI era.
These video courses have taught more than 10k people in design and tech. 🚀
Comment for "design" and I'll DM you the full library.
LFG! 🤘
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ADPList retweeted
Apr 15
Introducing Design Stack.
Today, we're releasing @ADPList's entire masterclass library ⭐️ 80 videos on design, career, AI, product and more (100% free) from all our flagship conferences.
Why are we doing this?
We believe opening this full knowledge base will move our community in the fast changing AI era.
These video courses have taught more than 10k people in design and tech. 🚀
Comment for "design" and I'll DM you the full library.
LFG! 🤘
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our love language is this
Do you know about ADPlist? Because that’s the best place, imo
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designers, don't miss this (full step-by-step) guide to using Claude Code. 🔥
Mar 22
A designer who can ship code is one of the most valuable hires in tech today.
Here's my new episode with @felixleezd (CEO of @ADPList) where he showed me how to use Claude Code and Figma MCP to go from:
✅ Figma → Code: Design to website in 15 min
✅ Code → Figma: App back to editable design
Felix also demoed a few apps he's designed and built in Claude Code, including a 3D globe website and a landing page analyzer.
Some takeaways from Felix:
1. Stop pasting screenshots into Claude Code. Instead, use Figma MCP to pull in all your assets, icons, and images automatically.
2. You can use the same MCP to convert code back into editable Figma layers to explore more variations.
3. An underrated way to build: Use FigJam to plan a flowchart of your app first, then paste the link into Claude Code with the MCP.
📌 Watch now: youtu.be/ydiMKfljb-I
Thanks to our sponsors:
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@linear: The AI agent platform for modern teams linear.app/behind-the-craft
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ADPList retweeted
Honored to be part on the list.
Thank you @ADPList
Supporting and helping other designers grow has been a rewarding experience 🙏🏾.
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ADPList retweeted
Mar 31
If you open a Chinese app for the first time, you’ll probably think it’s badly designed.
Too many icons and features. Everything crammed onto one screen.
If you grew up on Western apps, your instinct is immediate: this is cluttered.
But it works.
In the U.S., we’ve been trained to associate good UX with minimalism. In China, density often signals value.
Open WeChat or Alipay, and it feels overwhelming at first. Information-heavy, feature-packed.
But to local users, that density means capability. It says: everything you might need is already here in front of you.
If you enter a new market assuming your design taste equals good UX, you’ll misread the signal.
Good design is contextual.
ALT Three app interfaces are displayed, featuring shopping, food delivery deals, and financial services, all on a red background.
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ADPList retweeted
Feb 18
the vibe-coding for designers 101 to guide non-technical folks on to claude code/cursor.
bookmark this >> adplist.notion.site/cursor-f…
ALT Web guide titled "Vibe-Coding for Designers" with red abstract header, logos for Cursor and Claude Code, and a beginner-friendly step-by-step tutorial list.
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Wake up, designers. While jobs across other functions are surging through the AI transition, design roles are stagnant.
Don’t take refuge in craft and taste. All members of technical staff must demonstrate newfound productivity. If that’s a topic you’ve avoided because it involves shipping or knowing your business model inside-out, you will struggle to make the case for your own field.
When designers can’t articulate their company strategy, it’s usually because they are neither its authors nor its executors.
Seeking new leverage is no longer optional.
Mar 24
4/ Design roles have plateaued
Unlike PM and engineering, open design jobs have been relatively flat since early 2023, and there are also fewer of these roles than PMs and engineers in absolute terms (about 5,700 globally).
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We got news 👀
We're partnering with @coursera for the biggest webinar on navigating evolving job markets and AI's real impact on roles in 2026! 🌁
You're invited to come join us live on April 7th (while seats last): bit.ly/4t7Oe7N
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