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Hot take: Recruiters are your friends.
The horror stories online come from frustrated designers and bad recruiters. The silent majority? Nice designers working with nice recruiters toward the same goal.
What's your experience been?
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Tyler and Nick discuss the designer-recruiter relationship that everyone complains about but few understand. They cover what both sides get wrong and how to actually make it work.
- When to update your CV (every quarter or when your availability changes, not when you need a job)
- Why design-specific recruiters beat generalists who list requirements they don't understand
- Document hygiene that makes recruiters' lives easier and gets you hired faster
75% of designers don't reply when offered free help. Recruiters ask if you know Adobe XD (a tool that doesn't exist anymore). Both sides need to do better.
Best recruiters feel like partners. They have technical awareness. They're design-specific, not generalists listing requirements they don't understand. And designers who keep their CV ready and respond professionally get hired faster.
Designers complain about recruiters. Recruiters complain about designers. Meanwhile, both groups want the same thing. New episode Wednesday on what both sides get wrong about working together.
"If you're working fine without AI tools, you're not behind."
This needs to be said more often.
AI is just another tool. Pick tools that solve actual problems in your workflow instead of chasing every new release.
Here's the reality check:
But if your current workflow delivers results without these tools, you don't need to adopt them just because everyone else is.
Try tools when you hit friction points. Integrate what actually helps. Ignore the rest.
Auto layout bloating is the silent killer of Figma-to-code exports.
You delete one text layer, now you have an auto layout with one child. You drag that into another auto layout. Now you have nested frames wrapping single elements.
Clean files export better.
Quick win: Use voice prompting with ChatGPT to save time.
Hit record. Speak your prompt while you work. Get responses without typing.
It feels less like "using AI" and more like having a conversation with an assistant.
This week Tyler and Nick debated whether designers actually need every new AI tool that launches.
Spoiler: You don't.
The fundamentals of good design haven't changed. AI just speeds up (most) parts of the process.
"If you're working fine without AI tools, you're not behind."
Tyler and Nick agree: AI is just another tool. Pick what solves actual problems in your workflow instead of chasing every new release.
The Figma-to-code dream is harder than it looks.
Perfect sync between design and code requires:
- Exact naming alignment (colors in Figma must match color tokens in code)
- Clean auto layout structure (no nested bloat from quick edits)
Clean up Figma files intentionally. Align naming conventions with your codebase. Fix the gaps you discover during export attempts. The process reveals misalignment between design and engineering that you didn't know existed.