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Jul 10, 2026
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New Ways To Design With AI Tools
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Design Review
Eve Bouffard
(Head of Design, YC, guest)
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Executive Summary
YC's Head of Design, Eve Bouffard, details an AI-native workflow, using voice commands and AI agents like Claude to handle end-to-end project development, from ideation to deployment.
The process involves creating "disposable software"—temporary, custom tools built to fine-tune specific design elements (like shaders) or rapidly generate and compare dozens of website versions.
A key concept is designing for both humans and machines, exemplified by creating separate, agent-optimized Markdown versions of websites and using AI-powered forms where user prompts directly trigger pull requests.
These methods were applied across several YC projects, including Paxl (an analytics tool for coding agent usage), SodaZine (a digital and physical zine), and the branding for the large-scale Startup School event.
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