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Kris Puckett - Becoming an AI-native designer

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Today's episode is with Kris Puckett (https://x.com/krispuckett) who has led design at Mercury, Dropbox, and now as a design manager at Stripe.

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Published Mar 19, 2026
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Today's episode is with Kris Puckett com/krispuckett) who has led design at Mercury, Dropbox, and now as a design manager at Stripe. His journey is the perfect example of what it looks like to lean into this moment in time with AI. Some highlights: - Behind the scenes of Kris’s Epilogue app - How to create custom skills with Claude Code - How to start building personal systems with AI - How Kris taught Claude to be a metal shader expert - Building internal tools and workflows with AI at Stripe - + a lot more And if you want to go even deeper check out Kris's new course on learning to build your ideas with AI:

com/ Dive is where the best designers never stop learning 🤿 🌐 club 🐦 com/joindiveclub Now you can join advanced courses taught by the top designers to help you take a huge leap forward in your career 💪 Chapters 0:00 Intro 1:30 Kris's journey building Epilogue 9:58 Using AI to build metal shaders 14:27 Building workflow tools with AI 19:02 How to start building systems with AI 24:52 Creating skills with AI 30:04 Using AI to level up your personal life 33:26 Kris's explorations with OpenClaw 39:18 Positioning yourself with AI in today's job market 49:03 Behind the scenes of Kris's new website

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