Ryan Roghaar

@DannPetty Totally agree! I’m impressed you can do it in 30 minutes, though. I move like a locomotive. It takes me forever to get up to speed. When I’m going, I’m full blast. Flowing. But if I have to stop for any reason, it’s a big deal. The 1-2 lost hours could easily be 2-3 for me!

You cannot ask a designer to design and have many meetings during the week. We need time to deep think, process and explore. Especially with product design. A simple 30 minute meeting is actually an extra 1-2 hours of wasted potential design time. Why? Because we’re so lost in our heads thinking through a million solutions, we have to stop designing 30 minutes before, during the meeting, then it takes at least 30 minutes to try to get back into the mental spot and resolve the million solutions to get back to where we left off. Design is deep thinking and every meeting interrupts that. It’s one of the biggest challenges designers have when leading a product. Remember, your 30 minute meeting is actually almost 2 hours of lost design time. Make it worth it.

@DannPetty Referrals aren’t as plentiful out this way. Seems like we should be a way busier than we are. What are we missing?

My friends are constantly booked with design projects. I have no one to refer to anymore. So I’m telling you: Now is the best time to start that studio, agency, or freelance!

@hunterhammonds @thenickpattison I’d love to see this too. If you’re in a demoing mood!

@thenickpattison I’ll demo it for you

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@BrettFromDJ Would be fun to chat! If you wanted to, we could co-show on my pod @eggsthepodcast and broadcast the stream to both simultaneously. I might want to interview you a bit though :) Either way, I’d love to come on yours our have you on ours.

Looking for guests to join me on my weekly stream. - Just chilling/talking weekly design + ai topics - Non-interview style - I don't care if you have followers Comment below if that's you, or tag someone you know.

@patrickbetdavid GIF is pronounced with a g as in Gregg, not g as in George. It's "Graphic Interchange Format". Graphic, being the key word, isn't pronounced with the j sound. Like this: Ground / Good / Graphic Not like this: Giant / Gyro / Giraffe Therefore it's pronounced G-IF, not J-IF.

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@fedeneri86 @cursor_ai I’m struggling with this too. I am not a developer in any sense of the word, so thrilled with how far I’ve gotten. But I’m about to start my second rebuild on a project. I’ve taken to thoroughly documenting every living thing as well as finishing UI in hopes of getting closer.

Anyone else get stuck as project structure grows? On my 3rd restart now with @cursor_ai. Yes, each iteration improves documentation and handles critical paths better, but curious how others overcome this? I'm talking complex full-stack projects with multiple APIs/services ready for production—not just "one-prompt" pretty frontends 😅 My setup included a memory bank, knowledge graph, general/project rules, cursor-tools npm, MCP browser-tools for debugging... but still hitting walls.

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@theananttrivedi For me, no. But it’s possible I haven’t figured out how to maximize the tool yet. I mean it uses all the top models for content and image generation, it should be great and a good value. But so far not my number one.

@ryanroghaar idk, never tried it, but sounds like it’s not living up to the hype?

which LLM do you rely on? for me: • grok is expensive • gemini is a joke • claude hit rate limits • deepseek was down as always chatgpt is the only viable option for me 😭

@ryolu_ As a non-dev I’m loving how Cursor has supercharged my ability to bring ideas to fruition. However there seems to be a sweet spot. After awhile the AI starts systematically breaking everything, then I spend hours fixing it again. Any tricks to avoid this??

Challenge for all curious designers: You play with Cursor this weekend, build whatever cool thing that comes to mind. And post here. I’ll give you more crack (nightly access) if you make something cool. ☺️

@cameronmoll I think this is right, but I think there will be less room for the riff-raff and more opportunity for those with a style or a philosophy that is in demand. It could get tough for generalists out there.

Willing to bet my career on this: When the AI dust settles there will remain an evergreen need for taste & style at the hands of a professional, the ability to judge with your gut, methodical work at a slower pace, typographic mastery, and so much more that we do as designers.

@nathan_covey I feel this exactly! Shipped my first [simple] app in an afternoon this week. In just a few hours I built a tool that authenticates a website, scans it for content, prompts AI, and returns a formatted response. Not bad for my first time, and already working on what’s next!

I don't think many people understand what is happening in software development right now. I have a few friends with computer science degrees. Yesterday I asked them how they use AI. One said he uses ChatGPT “a little bit.” The others criticized AI and basically were in denial of how good it's become. Riddle me this: How does a guy who looked at his first line of code last year build an app in a week, by himself, that would’ve required a whole team and several “sprints” a few years ago? I sit at dinner with friends and family. All chatter about politics and pop culture. I bring up AI and get blank stares. Not one person has even heard of Claude. The average person has barely used AI and has no idea what is happening. I literally can't sleep at night. Too many ideas. Too many opportunities. I'm so excited.

@nickfloats Yes, frequently. Today, Chat GPT to Cursor (running Claude) to get it to think differently about a problem I’d run into.

You ever prompt AI for prompts to prompt another AI?

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@adriankuleszo “If anything, it makes real design skills even more valuable.” 👈 This 1000%

Design isn’t going anywhere. Ignore the AI thread bois screaming RIP designers or RIP Figma every time a new tool or feature drops. We closed $80k worth of projects just last week, and we’ve never been this busy. Serious businesses know good design is what sets them apart, because mediocrity is everywhere. AI is great for quick prototyping and ideation, but it’s not a 0 to 1 solution to complex problems. If anything, it makes real design skills even more valuable.

@pedrovearta This seems to be the earmark of today’s AI tools. I’m finding this with many of the platforms (ChatGPT, grok, Perplexity, Claude).

Does anyone else feel like Cursor gets dumber the longer you're coding in the same session? Like bad suggestions and wrong corrections...

@Henrik_wes I am a huge fan of @lovable and am amazed at its capabilities, but I've managed to build up two projects — days of prompting — only to have it lose its mind and go sideways. It is very capable, but as a non-dev, I've broken it twice. Looking forward to the future, though!

Visual edits + AI combined. First time ever. The new way of building software.

I'm in.