Kyle Zantos
@kylezantos
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Designer + Builder | AI Consultant | #SaaG
Seattle, WA
Joined August 2024
"I am you, a year later" Claude Code felt intimidating until I just started building with it. @ridd_design & I set out to help you do the same. In this episode, I show a very approachable process & mentality w/ @v0 + Claude Code, including the hiccups & solutions along the way.
The best teacher is often the person one rung ahead of you on the ladder For me that's @kylezantos I spent too long scared of Claude Code so I asked him to walk us through his process of building a new idea Hope it gets designers off the sidelines 👇 https://t.co/3pmEJwWFOQ
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Now, together, with our newly harnessed alien material, we attempt to find out what will separate fictions & futures.
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Real time, granular, visual editing tools -- right in my codebase. CHRISTMAS CAME EARLY and @cursor_ai is 🎅 Claude, clear my schedule. I need do some fine (ass) tuning to a few projects
You can now design directly in your codebase. Select elements, modify them visually, and Cursor writes the code.
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Now, together, with our newly harnessed alien material, we attempt to find out what will separate fictions & futures.
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Team is stacked going into 2026: Design, dev, video production and a great network of film crew excited to show up when we need them. We talk all day about "taste" in craft. But when you have great taste in people and talent, really cool things happen. It's a big theme
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These 15 minutes will elevate your CC prototyping efficiency and efficacy immediately. I especially liked the technique of making a little playground with version tabs for iteration experiments. Ridd and I are recording our 2nd Claude Code/CLI @joindiveclub video this Friday,
I prototyped this using a new workflow w/ Claude Code and I'm totally hooked So I decided to make an episode that shows my process step-by-step along w/ some of the key things I’ve learned about prototyping with AI 👇 https://t.co/vVrwB4i5Rn
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I think I’m down to ~10% designing that isn’t in code. I expect that number to drop to essentially 0 by the end of 2026. I’m now redesigning and developing an abandoned client project that was quoted at $30k to develop in mid 2024. I’m doing it for the cost of my Claude Code
The rise of the designer that can ship is about to take over this whole industry. Designers are tired of working hard, designing the product, only to be an afterthought still.
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My retro-futuristic space world is now *OUR* retro-futuristic space world. Generative AI w/ my toddler remains undefeated.
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My toddler caught a glimpse of me working on some of my personal branding img/vid stuff today, and became *very* curious. Now I'm making retro-futuristic spaceships (etc.) for both of us. Productivity: 📉 Bonding: 📈
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Next year: - Dedicated (solo) livestream on YT + Twitch - Deep design + AI tool experiments at @uxtoolsco - Dedicated podcast on YT + Spotify - A sick lineup of docu episodes per month Bringing on: - @kylezantos to run our UX Tools lab Over the next 3 months, on the look out
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More experiments for the personal site. Inching closer. This one using Kling 2.5 & Topaz Upscaler in @florafaunaai
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Kinda strange to make. Pretty strange to share. This was the first thing I made with AI that made me pause a bit. I cloned my late mom's voice in @elevenlabsio. She had early onset Alzheimer's and passed before meeting my son. He’s 3.5 now. Now, “she” reads him these stories I
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Probably shoulda tagged and 🙏 @ammaar and @GoogleAIStudio given the models used to make this. I’m assuming this is well within the intended/predicted use cases for these bleeding edge models, yes?
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Kinda strange to make. Pretty strange to share. This was the first thing I made with AI that made me pause a bit. I cloned my late mom's voice in @elevenlabsio. She had early onset Alzheimer's and passed before meeting my son. He’s 3.5 now. Now, “she” reads him these stories I
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Using @jakubkrehel multi-layered shadowing throughout everything you see instead of borders. I just changed the amount of layered shadows and their settings to differentiate the perceived elevation levels on different pieces. https://t.co/A8AIB5wSfT
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Having fun experimenting on my toddler's learning games app, with the ever-joyful @motiondotdev library & Gemini 3 Pro via @FactoryAI Next stop: header redesign?
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Trying to keep @ridd_design away from my 1st round bye in fantasy football playoffs this year. Any means necessary, including voodoo. (made on @higgsfield_ai with Nano Banana Pro & Veo 3.1)
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40+ images needed identifying, titling, resizing, and background removal. I generated them for my toddler's custom learning app, but the "transparent" backgrounds weren't actually transparent. Claude Code sorted it all out in ~4 minutes. I love Claude Code.
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