Designer's summer AI stack
From prompting guides to top tools
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Summer break? Here's your AI toolkit. ✨ Today I’m sharing the most valuable resources for product people, designers, and design system builders.
🧪 Agents
Building effective agents
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AI Agents for Beginners - a Microsoft Course
This course has 10 lessons covering the fundamentals of building AI Agents. Each lesson covers its own topic so start wherever you like.
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Agents
Authors: Julia Wiesinger, Patrick Marlow and Vladimir Vuskovic
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Learn to Build Your First AI Agent by
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✨ Prompting
Google’s Prompting guide 101
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Anthropic's Prompt Engineering Interactive Tutorial
This course is intended to provide you with a comprehensive step-by-step understanding of how to engineer optimal prompts within Claude.
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Prompt Engineering Guide
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State-Of-The-Art Prompting For AI Agents
On the Lightcone, Garry, Harj, Diana, and Jared break down what they've learned from working with hundreds of founders building with LLMs: why prompting still matters, where it breaks down, and how teams are making it more reliable in production.
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🛠 Build a product, app, website
Replit
Why Replit is crushing it:
Describe what you want, it builds it
Add any functionality behind the Figma designs (or prompts)
Click anything, describe what you want to change
Saves me thousands on dev costs
Deploy in hours
Used by 45M+ creators, Google, Coinbase, Anthropic
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PS. I vibe-coded a new header with Replit for my Design Tokens Name Generator in 17 minutes. 🔥🔥
→ Imported Figma design (just dropped the Figma link)
→ Asked Replit to refine the layout
→ Added draggable pills + hover effects + animations
→ Deployed
→ Done!
📚 Books
Agentic Graph RAG
Written by Anthony Alcaraz, this book demystifies knowledge graphs, graph memory, neural-symbolic reasoning, and agent orchestration through real-world case studies, hands-on design patterns, and production-ready architectures.
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LLM Engineer's Handbook: Master the art of engineering large language models from concept to production
Build and refine LLMs step by step, covering data preparation, RAG, and fine-tuning
Learn essential skills for deploying and monitoring LLMs, ensuring optimal performance in production
Utilize preference alignment, evaluation, and inference optimization to enhance performance and adaptability of your LLM applications
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Figma
Figma Make
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Figma MCP
The Dev Mode MCP Server brings Figma directly into your workflow by providing important design information and context to AI agents generating code from Figma design files.
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Ugic AI: Generate UI Based Any Component Library (Figma plugin)
The UI generation tool that creates interfaces from descriptions, will transform your approach to work. It can generate customized AI-driven, multi-language Figma drafts based on user component libraries and design systems.
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Velocity: AI user testing for prototypes (Figma plugin)
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Figma MCP and the most useful Figma resources for designers (my post)
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✨ Creative
ElevenLabs
AI voice models and products powering millions of developers, creators, and enterprises. From low‑latency conversational agents to the leading AI voice generator for voiceovers and audiobooks.
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Midjourney
Midjourney is an independent research lab exploring new mediums of thought and expanding the imaginative powers of the human species.
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Ideogram
Generate stunning images, explore creative ideas, and turn inspiration into reality.
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Playground
Design like a pro.
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Runway
Fast and controllable tools that allow you to create high-fidelity content in an a way that’s never been possible before.
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Kling
Tools for creating imaginative images and videos, based on state-of-art generative AI methods.
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Krea
Generate Stunning AI Videos
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Veo3
Generate videos with perfectly synced audio, including sound effects, dialogue, and ambient noise. Bring your stories to life with Veo 3.
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💼 Get work done
Granola AI
The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings
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Howie
You do what you do. Howie handles the calendar. He's an email-based assistant that can schedule meetings and reschedule meetings for you and your team.
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Wispr Flow
Effortless voice dictation in every application: 4x faster than typing, AI commands and auto-edits.
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Gamma
Turn your ideas into stunning presentations. Instantly, with AI.
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Adobe Acrobat
PDF summarization & chat
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Cubby
The collaborative research tool.
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Cora
Cora knows what’s important to you and the types of emails you need to respond to. It keeps those messages in your inbox for you to see ASAP.
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Tavus AI
Building blocks to empower your AI Agent to see, hear, respond, and look human – in real time.
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Synthesia
Create studio-quality videos with AI avatars and voiceovers in 140+ languages. It’s as easy as making a slide deck.
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🙌 General
2025 State of AI Report: The Builder’s Playbook
A Practical Roadmap for AI Innovation
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Enjoy exploring. ✌️
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💎 Community Gems
Zentara Design System
ZenTara brings together a rich library of reusable components, tokens, and styles tailored to the unique preferences and behaviors of Indian users.
*Launched today 🙌
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The most beautiful color generator by vijay verma
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State of AI in design
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This was great Romina, lots of useful materials. For Designers I am preparing a series to integrate AI in their workflows and a learning roadmap. These are learning materials specifically for designers. I'd be happy to hear your opinion on:
https://eidosdesign.substack.com/s/ai-in-ux-studio