Andy Madrick - Why AI changed design handoff forever

⭐️ Check out Andy’s course - Craft at Speed club/maven-aff-andy-madrick Use code DIVECLUB for 15% off Andy Madrick com/andymadrick) is rethinking what it means to be a designer in 2026. 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 Dive is where the best designers never stop learning 🤿 🌐 club 🐦 com/joindiveclub Now you can join advanced courses taught by the top designers to help you take a huge leap forward in your career 💪 Chapters 0:00 Intro 1:25 Designing the Make with Notion modal 11:33 Building new collaboration workflows 19:30 Owning frontend vs. owning mocks 22:46 How to sequence work with engineers 31:16 Owning the last mile 38:23 Pushing past what AI gives you out of the box 43:57 Andy's Craft at Speed course 46:20 How Andy grew at Tome 49:55 The impact of the Notion design culture