30 Nov 2025
38m

A Proven 5-Step System to Prototype Apps with AI | Xinran Ma

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Behind the Craft

In this interview, Xinran Ma, founder of the Design with AI Newsletter and instructor of AI for Product Designers, shares five vibe design tips to address the drawbacks of using vibe coding tools for design. Xinran highlights gaps in design exploration within vibe coding workflows, emphasizing the need for upfront clarity, iteration tracking, divergent thinking, idea mixing, and manual design revision. Xinran introduces custom GPTs for prompt clarification and showcases Magic Patterns and Subframe as tools for divergent design exploration and manual design adjustments, respectively. Xinran also shares tips on how to make AI-generated designs look more unique by using component libraries and custom instructions.

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