Nicholas

Dessn - Is this the future of AI prototyping?

Nicholas

Gab (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabriella-hachem/) and Nim (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nim-cheema/) are the co-founders of a startup called Dessn (https://join.dive.club/dessn-content) which allows designers to prototype in the context of their production codebase (without any of the setup).

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Gab com/in/gabriella-hachem/) and Nim com/in/nim-cheema/) are the co-founders of a startup called Dessn club/dessn-content) which allows designers to prototype in the context of their production codebase (without any of the setup). So I asked them to hook it up to the Inflight co/) repo and give me a little demo to see whatโ€™s possible. Iโ€™m pretty sold ๐Ÿ‘€ Dive is where the best designers never stop learning ๐Ÿคฟ ๐ŸŒ club ๐Ÿฆ com/joindiveclub Now you can join advanced courses taught by the top designers to help you take a huge leap forward in your career ๐Ÿ’ช Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:45 Creating an animation playground in Dessn 5:10 The power of designing in production 6:07 Prototyping Inflight using Dessn 9:05 The aura of inevitability designing in code 14:24 How Dessn works under the hood 16:29 Scaling explorations and leaning into curation 19:05 Prompting vs.

pixel pushing 25:09 Previewing Dessn's canvas UX 27:31 What tomorrow's design tools mean for the role of designer 28:55 Figuring out what to ship 30:54 The importance of design in an AI world 32:49 Dessn's upcoming milestones

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