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Riffing With AI: My ChatGPT → v0 → Figma Workflow

Every designer is experimenting with AI workflows. Here’s my ChatGPT → v0 → Figma loop and the trade-offs that make it work.

Sep 18 • 

Sanketh Sharathkumar

Context > Prompt: A designer’s system for an AI copilot

Prompts can get you started, but context is what makes AI reliable. This is my system for using GPT as a true design partner.

Sep 14 • 

Sanketh Sharathkumar

Designing a no-code e-learning platform for dentistry - a case study

Dental education could be overwhelming - dense textbooks, expensive resources, and endless exams. Students needed a resource that was visual…

Sep 5 • 

Sanketh Sharathkumar

The Design System Story: Turning design debt into a scalable system - a case study

We needed a shared foundation, a system to unify, scale, and speed up every project we delivered.

Sep 3 • 

Sanketh Sharathkumar

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August 2025

The "invisible" middle layer of colour systems

Color palettes don’t scale on their own. It’s the invisible middle - accessibility and design rules, that turns colors into a usable system.

Aug 21 • 

Sanketh Sharathkumar

Design DNA - A playbook for building systems that scale

I want to start a new series on building design systems. I’m calling it Design DNA.This is about practical systems you can create right in the middle of…

Aug 12 • 

Sanketh Sharathkumar

Designing RedStack: A remote workflow system - a case study

A UX case study on designing a remote workflow execution platform.

Aug 5 • 

Sanketh Sharathkumar

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July 2025

Designing flexible data tables - an atomic approach

Tables are complex components. The hack, though, is getting that one “data-cell” component just right, and then using that to build your entire table.

Jul 20 • 

Sanketh Sharathkumar

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Auto-layout isn’t broken. Your mental model is!

Figma’s auto-layout is essentially a similar visual implementation of Flexbox. It is designed on the Flexbox CSS model and shares a strong conceptual…

Jul 13 • 

Sanketh Sharathkumar

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Pixels and Process #2 - Geeking over the good stuff (with a cup of coffee 🍵)

Sharp reads, shiny tools, quick tactics, and a wildcard curated for designers who love systems, speed, and small sparks of inspiration.

Jul 6 • 

Sanketh Sharathkumar

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June 2025

Architecting a “Remote Execution Platform” with AI-augmented UX workflows - a case study

A case study in product thinking with AI as a creative partner

Jun 1 • 

Sanketh Sharathkumar

May 2025

Careers Aren’t Found. They’re Compounded.

What ten years of trying, learning, and stacking skills taught me about meaningful work.

May 16 • 

Sanketh Sharathkumar

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