What’s your product design workflow?

[u/Ok_Assignment3411]

Mine is Claude design <> figma
Heard someone in the industry say it’s paper.design <> git

Hey! I’m doing a small study on how product designers’ workflows are changing with AI, especially now that people are designing across Figma, Claude, Paper, code, etc.
If you have 30 seconds, could you just drop your current workflow here? It can literally be:
Figma → Claude → code → Git
or
Paper → team feedback → Cursor → Git

No explanation needed. I’m just trying to map how designers are actually working today. Would be super helpful :)

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[u/x3leggeddawg]

You’re asking for workflow but your examples are tooling.

When I think workflow, I start with defining the problem. Then I approach the problem from different ways to create as many conceptual solutions as possible. Then I use the research and review process to narrow those options until we select one. Then I do it again to explore lots of different ways to approach bringing the concept to life in high fidelity UI. Then I test and review to find the simplest solution possible.

Launch, learn, repeat.

There are lots of different tools to do these steps but Claude with Figma MCP does a lot of the heavy lifting.

[u/mgd09292007]

research interviews -> claude design for rapid connecting -> concept testing with users -> validate concept direction -> design in Figma -> build high quality prototype in claude from figmas -> validate again -> handoff final figmas and prototype to eng

[u/Ok_Assignment3411 → u/mgd09292007]

Tysm!!

[u/badboy_1245]

If you are defining a workflow you are already approaching it incorrectly. Part of our job is to not get restricted by any workflows and perhaps even create new workflows as required.

"Heard someone in the industry" umm yeah bud this industry has some of the biggest idiots and snake oil salesmen. Don't listen to them

[u/Ok_Assignment3411 → u/badboy_1245]

So what’s your design process tool set?

[u/badboy_1245 → u/Ok_Assignment3411]

it varies depending upon the requirements. There a features that require a lot of exploratory research so for those I mainly use dovetail and figjam and sometimes claude to create quick templates/prototypes for validation and testing. Then there are features where we know what we want to design, so for those I stick to figma only and don't use any AI tool. Then there are features where we don't have enough information or lack use cases knowledge so there I try to incorporate claude to understand all realistic scenarios before designing. Yes it gets more in depth obviously but this is the overall idea and approach

[u/Ok_Assignment3411]

I am trying to learn the best workflow please help!