<![CDATA[AI Designer Club]]>I believe every designer has a side project, a product or a breakthrough idea waiting to be built ✨

AI Designer Club is where designers become makers of their own ideas.

]]>https://riverside.comRiverside.fm (https://riverside.com)Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:39:31 GMTSun, 12 Jul 2026 18:46:39 GMT60Ellie Rastian<p>I believe every designer has a side project, a product or a breakthrough idea waiting to be built ✨</p><p>AI Designer Club is where designers become makers of their own ideas.</p><p></p>episodicEllie Rastianellierastian@gmail.comno<![CDATA[From Designer to Founder: How AI Changes What Designers Can Build | Kathy Wang ]]>AI has made it possible for designers to build real products without waiting for a technical counterpart. But for Kathy Wang, the biggest thing holding designers back is no longer technical ability. It’s mindset.
In this conversation, I sit down with Kathy to talk about her journey from product designer at IBM, Dropbox and Snorkel AI to co-founder of Press Club. She shares why a talk at Figma Config pushed her to quit her job one week later, how she built an audience before she knew what company she would start, and how one LinkedIn post generated more than 60 leads for Press Club.

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🔗 Kathy on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathytwang/

🔗 Press Club
https://www.pressclub.app

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🚀 Get in touch with me
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathytwang/

🔗 Find AI Designer Club on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/company/aidesignerclub

]]>5ff293e8-2049-4113-890d-942e0b81dd3aWed, 02 Sep 2026 08:15:46 GMT<p>AI has made it possible for designers to build real products without waiting for a technical counterpart. But for Kathy Wang, the biggest thing holding designers back is no longer technical ability. It’s mindset.<br />In this conversation, I sit down with Kathy to talk about her journey from product designer at IBM, Dropbox and Snorkel AI to co-founder of Press Club. She shares why a talk at Figma Config pushed her to quit her job one week later, how she built an audience before she knew what company she would start, and how one LinkedIn post generated more than 60 leads for Press Club.<br /><br />————<br /><br />🔗 Kathy on LinkedIn<br /><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathytwang/" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathytwang/</a><br /><br />🔗 Press Club<br /><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.pressclub.app" target="_blank">https://www.pressclub.app</a><br /><br />————<br /><br />🚀 Get in touch with me<br /><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathytwang/" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathytwang/</a><br /><br />🔗 Find AI Designer Club on LinkedIn<br /><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/aidesignerclub" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/company/aidesignerclub</a><br /></p>no00:22:2913From Designer to Founder: How AI Changes What Designers Can Build | Kathy Wang full<![CDATA[Build a vibe coding agent with me | Alexis Fernandez]]>AI agents don’t need to be complicated, fully autonomous systems running 24/7. Watch full episode on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BnuHjgKXGM&t=523s

In this conversation, I sit down with Alexis Fernandez to understand what AI agents actually are, how they differ from regular AI chats, skills and custom instructions and most importantly, how to build one that genuinely helps you.

Then we build one live.
In less than 15 minutes, we create Vera, an AI teammate designed to help me think, critique product decisions, support vibe coding, and bring technical expertise into my workflow.

Alexis is not a designer by training and not an engineer by training. He spent his career in operations and systems, and has spent the last two years building with AI. He now helps others build with it, and works on the infrastructure that gets multiple agents to collaborate, hold memory, and stay out of the way until they're needed. He's the founder of Alem.

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🔗 Free AI Team Starter Kit (everything Alexis used in this episode)
https://freebies.alem.to/ai-team-star...

🔗 Build Your AI Team Bootcamp, 3 days, 29 September to 1 October,, 90 minutes a day
https://bootcamp.alem.to

🔗 Alexis on LinkedIn
  / alexis-alem  

🔗 Alem
https://alem.to

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🚀 Built a product as a designer? Want to share it? Get in touch with Ellie
  / rastian  

🔗 Find Us on LinkedIn
  / aidesignerclub  

]]>758d0977-f0ca-4dc4-b2bc-70bdcc3a2a34Tue, 25 Aug 2026 08:25:28 GMT<p>AI agents don’t need to be complicated, fully autonomous systems running 24/7. Watch full episode on YouTube <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BnuHjgKXGM&amp;t=523s" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BnuHjgKXGM&amp;t=523s</a><br /><br />In this conversation, I sit down with Alexis Fernandez to understand what AI agents actually are, how they differ from regular AI chats, skills and custom instructions and most importantly, how to build one that genuinely helps you.<br /><br />Then we build one live.<br />In less than 15 minutes, we create Vera, an AI teammate designed to help me think, critique product decisions, support vibe coding, and bring technical expertise into my workflow.<br /><br />Alexis is not a designer by training and not an engineer by training. He spent his career in operations and systems, and has spent the last two years building with AI. He now helps others build with it, and works on the infrastructure that gets multiple agents to collaborate, hold memory, and stay out of the way until they're needed. He's the founder of Alem.<br /><br />————<br /><br />🔗 Free AI Team Starter Kit (everything Alexis used in this episode)<br /><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://freebies.alem.to/ai-team-star" target="_blank">https://freebies.alem.to/ai-team-star</a><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUM4Zm9rVFRjOVhKeHNLNnNtSzQwNUhvejdzNnxBR3JiS2FsWktnRjNXbjZLUnpYR0VmQnZiR2hDX0JVMl95cXl4M0pWcGZIT3c0c1JyVzcwYzBZS3BqSkxVY1FRWHk4bFhIZG13WGtiVmZsaUlHei1VUWVUMm1qQ1dmV3JYaUpJ&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Ffreebies.alem.to%2Fai-team-starter-kit&amp;v=2BnuHjgKXGM" target="_blank">...</a><br /><br />🔗 Build Your AI Team Bootcamp, 3 days, 29 September to 1 October,, 90 minutes a day<br /><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://bootcamp.alem.to" target="_blank">https://bootcamp.alem.to</a><br /><br />🔗 Alexis on LinkedIn<br /><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUM4Zm9rUTdPZUliYktiQXcxeG83eDlvcE1oZnxBR3JiS2FuYnRnbnIwam0tNm82b3dGR3kzVldDM2NiSTlUOWJOR1dpOEFUQlhsMFNFTVdLQjRkaVZfUWtmaXU2aWpRX0FnYnN1c2ZyaUdGUFRudlVPZ3JzRXVWVkI0VVhSYkRO&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Falexis-alem%2F&amp;v=2BnuHjgKXGM" target="_blank">  / alexis-alem  </a><br /><br />🔗 Alem<br /><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://alem.to" target="_blank">https://alem.to</a><br /><br />————<br /><br />🚀 Built a product as a designer? Want to share it? Get in touch with Ellie<br /><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUM4Zm9rU0piVzBvbTZBSXVBd2hWR1VIUnVpS3xBR3JiS2FucXp0aXd1WVVHRFdlZXNlOXVZck92cFE3Zk1jUjFEYy1JMlZUTG05eTZKZUpxdkJyRGlqRU96NFA4Z25WQUV5cXFuckxmeDdjTzNLd3lhR1cwZTAwNFY5T0hGUDdZ&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Frastian%2F&amp;v=2BnuHjgKXGM" target="_blank">  / rastian  </a><br /><br />🔗 Find Us on LinkedIn<br /><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUM4Zm9rUVZvbTN4bzBTQU9XTmFrcVFHWGVjd3xBR3JiS2FtcTRVdzRCa3NoZ0NDUWU5YlpEQUM0b1A4UDh1SkFMRzNKYjFNcU9LcmJlVmpGN1R2dXl3TVBWWnJmUGZ6Ry1KQ1VFWnBoeVJrQlZ1V3ZGVDBXRmtwOVJLUGhSTTFi&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fcompany%2Faidesignerclub&amp;v=2BnuHjgKXGM" target="_blank">  / aidesignerclub  </a><br /></p>no00:29:00Build a vibe coding agent with me | Alexis Fernandezfull<![CDATA[Make Your Figma Designs AI Readable | Stefan Holzheu]]>In this episode I'm talking to Stefan Holzheu, the designer who built DesignReady, a free Figma plugin that scans your design and scores how ready it is for AI to turn into code.

Stefan demos it live. We also get into the token math. If you want AI to build what you actually designed instead of its best guess, this episode is for you.

Stefan Holzheu is a Senior Product Designer based in Germany, working in enterprise design systems and end-to-end product concepts for over a decade.

DesignReady plugin reached almost 400 downloads on Figma Community with zero advertising, just LinkedIn posts documenting his learning in public.

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🔗 DesignReady on Figma Community
https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1619643293052051000

🔗 Stefan on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sholzheu/
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🚀 Built a product as a designer? Want to share it? Get in touch with Ellie
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rastian/

🔗 Find Us on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/company/aidesignerclub

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Chapters:
00:00 Meet Stefan Holzheu
01:20 Why he built DesignReady
03:59 Live demo: scanning a component
07:41 DesignReady vs Figma MCP
09:06 How he built it with Claude Code
12:03 Why Claude Code skills matter
15:23 What this means for token costs
19:38 Advice: try it and have fun
20:43 Product design in 12 months

]]>c15c2002-7f94-48b4-9fda-b4066c7bd371Sun, 12 Jul 2026 19:00:34 GMT<p>In this episode I'm talking to Stefan Holzheu, the designer who built DesignReady, a free Figma plugin that scans your design and scores how ready it is for AI to turn into code.<br /><br />Stefan demos it live. We also get into the token math. If you want AI to build what you actually designed instead of its best guess, this episode is for you.<br /><br />Stefan Holzheu is a Senior Product Designer based in Germany, working in enterprise design systems and end-to-end product concepts for over a decade. <br /><br />DesignReady plugin reached almost 400 downloads on Figma Community with zero advertising, just LinkedIn posts documenting his learning in public.<br /><br />————<br /><br />🔗 DesignReady on Figma Community <br /><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1619643293052051000" target="_blank">https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1619643293052051000</a> <br /><br />🔗 Stefan on LinkedIn<br /><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/sholzheu/" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/sholzheu/</a><br />————<br /><br />🚀 Built a product as a designer? Want to share it? Get in touch with Ellie<br /><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/rastian/" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/rastian/</a><br /><br />🔗 Find Us on LinkedIn<br /><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/aidesignerclub" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/company/aidesignerclub</a><br /><br />————<br /><br />Chapters:<br />00:00 Meet Stefan Holzheu<br />01:20 Why he built DesignReady<br />03:59 Live demo: scanning a component<br />07:41 DesignReady vs Figma MCP<br />09:06 How he built it with Claude Code<br />12:03 Why Claude Code skills matter<br />15:23 What this means for token costs<br />19:38 Advice: try it and have fun<br />20:43 Product design in 12 months</p>no00:23:0611Make Your Figma Designs AI Readable | Stefan Holzheufull