"In 2025, AI-assisted building closed this chasm. Translating how software should work was never the hard part for designers. Translating that understanding into code was. AI didn't lower the bar; it removed it. I've built 15+ working prototypes using Claude Code and Cursor, and shipped 3 apps in 2025 with just a basic understanding of Swift I learned three years ago;"
"Designers are already good at this higher-level thinking; we just need to apply it to a new medium. The skills that make someone good at design are precisely what AI-assisted building requires: Defining outcomes clearly: We empathise and think of novel scenarios for our user, visualise what good looks like and use that in our artefacts. Anticipating failures: We map edge cases constantly"
AI-assisted building in 2025 eliminated the implementation barrier between design and shipping, allowing designers to express software intent without deep coding knowledge. Fifteen-plus working prototypes were built using Claude Code and Cursor, and three apps shipped in 2025 with only a basic Swift understanding used about five percent of the time. Designers excel at orchestrating agents to write, test, debug, and iterate code because they define outcomes, anticipate failures, and communicate intent without shared context. Effective prompting focuses on articulating the what and why so AI can handle the how. The shift changed approaches to design, engineering collaboration, and technical problem framing.
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