While at Notion, he’s developed a workflow where he prototypes directly in code, ships frontend PRs, and uses AI tools like Cursor to own the final polish of user interfaces.

In this episode we get a look into how he keeps all these things in motion and still designs with insane attention to detail.

Some highlights:

Building one of Notion’s most visible UIs
Why recreating interactions teaches you craft
Owning the last 5-20% of frontend polish work
The “jelly bean factory” problem with AI output
When to start in Figma vs. jumping straight to code
How Andy creates prototypes that content teams can edit

a lot more