Kris Puckett - Becoming an AI-native designer

About this episode

Kris Puckett discusses his journey as an AI-native designer and shares insights on leveraging AI in design.

Today's episode is with Kris Puckett 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

People in this episode

Host: Ridd

Guest: Kris Puckett

Topics covered

• AI design
• personal systems
• internal tools
• workflow automation
• metal shader expertise

Keywords

• AI
• design
• Epilogue app
• Claude Code
• Stripe
• workflow
• metal shader

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Mercury, Dropbox, Stripe

Products: Epilogue app, Claude Code

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