AI Design Field Guide

"We're witnessing the birth of a new kind of designer: The AI Designer. Designers who work in evals, prompts, and tool calls. Designers who have as much of a taste for models as they do for fonts. Designers who think in mental models, agents, and intelligence."

"There's no textbook for this kind of design (and things change so fast, it wouldn't make sense to write one). Instead, we need a field guide. A living record of our learnings, tips, tricks, fears, dreams, curiosities, and hot takes."

A new breed of designers centers their practice on AI-specific tasks such as evaluations, prompt design, and orchestrating tool calls. They balance aesthetic choices like fonts with technical judgments about models, treating generative systems as design materials. These designers conceptualize through mental models, agent architectures, and notions of intelligence rather than solely through pixels or interaction flows. Rapid change and the absence of stable standards make static textbooks impractical. Continuous, shared documentation—a living field guide capturing learnings, practical tips, tooling patterns, fears, and speculative ideas—better supports the evolving craft.

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