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AI

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Safe AI for Designers: The Five Rules to Start With

How to use AI without leaking keys, breaking production, or sharing the wrong things. Plain English. Five rules every designer should set up before their first prompt.

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Set Up Your AI Design Workspace in 20 Minutes

The plain-language Day 0 guide: which accounts to create, which tools to install first, and how to run one sanity check before you go deeper.

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Trust Levels: How Agents Earn Autonomy (Part 2)

Part 2 of the Agentic Design Systems series. The five trust levels (Observer, Advisor, Junior, Senior, Autonomous), what each one is allowed to do, and the exact criteria to promote an agent from one level to the next.

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AI for Designers 101

What AI tools are, how they differ, which ones matter for designers, and a practical first-week plan for getting started without the hype.

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Claude Code: App vs Extension vs Terminal (Which One to Use When)

Claude Code comes in three flavors: a web/desktop app, a VS Code or Cursor extension, and a terminal CLI. Each one is designed for a different moment in your day. Here is which to pick.

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The Design Style Phrasebook

20 style directions with exact phrase blocks you can copy into Claude, Nano Banana, Kling, or any AI tool. Stop saying 'make it premium' and start giving real direction.

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What Is an Agentic Design System? (Part 1)

Part 1 of the Agentic Design Systems series, based on Romina's IDS 2026 talk. A design system built for AI agents, not just humans. Stops hallucination before it ships.

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Set Up Claude Code (Step by Step for Designers)

Install Claude Code, open it in a folder, and run your first AI tasks. No coding background, no terminal experience needed. Just follow along.

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How to Use GitHub Actions With AI

AI is good at generation. GitHub Actions are good at repeatable execution. Pair them and you get the reliability layer most AI-assisted design workflows are missing.

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Build a Design System Pitch Deck with AI

Use Claude to generate a compelling pitch deck that gets leadership buy-in for your design system investment.

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Create a One-Page Design System Strategy

Use AI to distill your design system vision, principles, priorities, and success metrics onto a single page that aligns your entire team.

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