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Been on the other side of this transition. Spent years perfecting pixel-perfect designs only to watch engineers rebuild everything This course is the bridge I wish existed when I was stuck in that loop✨💪🏼 If you’re a designer who wants to stay relevant in 2026, this is it🔥 → designengineer. pro (Live Now)
If your design process still ends at figma, 2026 is going to hurt ⚠️ made designengineer(.)pro for designers ready to cross over before it’s too late designing in cursor, shipping in code, AI in the loop, ditching the handoff. everything i wish someone handed me when i made the jump into it Elevate your career from Product Designer to AI Design Engineer 📈🔥 Link Below 👇
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Full circle moment ✨ Started freelancing in design during college → moved into frontend dev → got some guidance → came back to design and started getting bigger opportunities Now I feel I can actually help others who are either starting out or trying to level up So for the next 2 months, I’ve created a Topmate account where you can book free 1:1 slots with me. If you’re feeling stuck, want some direction, or just need someone to talk through your next steps, feel free to book a slot. I’ll be happy to help however I can. Looking forward to connecting with people who are genuinely willing to put in the work. It genuinely feels good & rewarding at some level when I can provide some value or clarity to someone else’s journey and help them out ❤️ Here you go topmate.io/sunal
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A big shoutout to @abnux @jayneil for helping me and many others in our early days and for creating a culture of helping and uplifting people in design😌
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turned my mac dock into a football stadium ⚽️ built a mac app, hooked it to a football api, added few characters, and boom .
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Loved the event the Headout team put together. Great insights on how AI is being woven into design workflows from motion and brand design to the increasingly seamless bridge between design and code. Also fascinating to hear how they’re managing and organizing AI-generated code at scale. And a shoutout to the workspace itself beautifully curated, full of character, and the kind of space that sparks creativity. Kudos to @RamaKrishnaUX and the @headout design team for sharing their workflows and learnings 💪🏼✨
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Realising that a lot of messages just stay in my DM of young budding designers asking for direction or people asking for portfolio review recently Since, it becomes really tough to give feedback on message and learn their way of storytelling.
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Been on the other side of this transition. Spent years perfecting pixel-perfect designs only to watch engineers rebuild everything This course is the bridge I wish existed when I was stuck in that loop✨💪🏼 If you’re a designer who wants to stay relevant in 2026, this is it🔥 → designengineer. pro (Live Now)
If your design process still ends at figma, 2026 is going to hurt ⚠️ made designengineer(.)pro for designers ready to cross over before it’s too late designing in cursor, shipping in code, AI in the loop, ditching the handoff. everything i wish someone handed me when i made the jump into it Elevate your career from Product Designer to AI Design Engineer 📈🔥 Link Below 👇
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POV: I hit my Claude Code session limit, going AFK 🏔️
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AI will 100% replace the folks debating "AI won't replace the thinking, the process, bla bla bla" instead of doing real work and leveraging AI to improve level of the quality of deliverables
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In a world where craft is reduced to metrics and timelines are crowded with noise and borrowed relevance, individuality becomes rare. That’s why I’ll always root for @sunalsood . Watching him build year after year without losing his taste or identity has been refreshing.
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Most loud people online aren’t building anything meaningful. Noise is often insecurity with an audience. Easier to steal attention than earn respect through years of work. And Sunal, very few people will say this directly, but you’re doing great work. Keep building.
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Design workflow evolution timeline check 2015: Moving designs in dreamweaver, flash, and indesign 2017: flexing giant photoshop, sketch files and polished dribbble shots became the norm, 2020: spending hours perfecting figma illustrations, components, and auto-layout systems 2022: Shipping production-ready websites straight from Webflow & Framer (no more “just mockups”) 2024: bringing life to interfaces with rive and play instead of static screens 2026: opening pull requests in cursor instead of waiting around for handoffs. The job stayed the same the proximity to production changed completely!
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I recently built an Indian Metro Sim game because I love Mini Metro and wanted to understand what makes a clean strategy game feel fun. The tiny goal: Indianize that metro-planning joy with our cities, stations, maps, chaos, rhythm, and a little desi transit drama. (1/2)
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Best way to develop thick skin: ship literally anything on 𝕏
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🚨hiring alert looking for a visual designer urgently for @100xengineers! pls dm me with your best work ✨
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Shipping is leverage. Knowing what to build is the edge. That’s taste & judgment And bridging design → reality (working with AI to bring your designs to production) Is the moat.
The obvious path for designers in the AI age is to move closer to code. But the more valuable path may be upstream: closer to the customer, the business, and the problem. If everyone can prompt agents to code, the scarce skill becomes knowing why, what, and how to build.
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claude design faded out in a week like it never existed.
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If your design process still ends at figma, 2026 is going to hurt ⚠️ made designengineer(.)pro for designers ready to cross over before it’s too late designing in cursor, shipping in code, AI in the loop, ditching the handoff. everything i wish someone handed me when i made the jump into it Elevate your career from Product Designer to AI Design Engineer 📈🔥 Link Below 👇
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Design is NOT the first AI casualty. It’s about to become the biggest differentiator in the AI era. This is exactly what I’ve been talking about in the design space. Hence I disagree with gokul here If founders or VCs start thinking like this just hire a consultant for a few weeks to make a design system, then PMs & engineers feed it into AI and ship “good enough” we’re all going to drown in the same generic components and same-looking products. It’s exactly like how a lot of folks use ShadCN or any other open DS and then just customize a little on top of those design systems. People are still stuck thinking in terms of design system The significant differentiator will be people who can actually make great design systems with real craft and good design✨ Taste will be the biggest differentiator because AI can only produce so much and you can only customize so much on existing open-source design systems. We will still need good designers to do the design craft and make these systems very personalized to the company. And if an engineer or PM starts doing this role, there won’t be much great output in terms of design because they are focusing on shipping everything. So design goes for a toss. For sure, good designers have always been a conjunction of either a designer PM skillset or designer eng skillset but it’s more essential than ever now. Creating good design is hard it takes craft, it takes taste, you need to sit through and figure out what a good design would look like. In the AI flood of functional slop, real taste wins. Design isn’t dying it’s about to matter more than ever!
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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