Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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What does it look like when a designer with zero technical background commits to shipping something real?

That’s what this week’s episode with Brett Williams is all about.

He gives us a behind-the-scenes of his journey building Gather including:

- Brett’s process for iterating on a design
- Brett’s new prototyping.md skill workflow
- How Brett maintains control while building with AI
- Brett’s strategy for adding sound design to Gather
- When Brett relies on Figma vs. explores directly in code
- + a lot more

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Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:10 Brett's journey with building
7:47 Where Figma still fits in
13:09 Maintaining control while building with AI
20:11 Building a Twitter bookmarking extension
23:34 Dialing in the finer details
26:32 Strategies for collaborating with Claude
31:08 Prototyping sound design
33:18 Brett's prototyping.md skill
42:09 Strategies for icon libraries
45:01 Brett's thoughts on the future of design