Quest Notes.

Everyone gets the same models now. What compounds is the context you feed them: notes from an AI × Design builders' night, and why I run my life on one Markdown vault.

Cursor and Claude Code didn't overwhelm me with syntax. They overwhelmed me with vocabulary. Building unjargon, and the first PR I ever raised.

Notes from DDX in Dubai: table talks over back-to-back panels, a session with Don Norman, and a design scene that's visibly changing pace.

Five takeaways from Myntra Design MYX'25: generative UI, design systems as MCPs, and why taste and curation become the biggest asset once building gets easy.

Atlassian x Friends of Figma on role convergence, vibe prototyping, and why craft is quietly reversing from 80% execution to 80% judgment.

DesignUp E7: Lauren Celenza on why AI's harms are value problems, not AI problems, and six storyteller roles designers can choose to embody.

DesignUp E6: Sarika Goel on crisis design at Ford, the Crisis Readiness Equation, and what a confusing payout screen actually costs a Porter partner.

DesignUp E5: Khushboo Agrawal on why good design instincts often only work for people who think like us, and what that means for a delivery partner reading red as 'do this now,' not 'stop.'

DesignUp E4. Katja Forbes on machine customer experience: when the buyer is an AI agent reading your specs, persuasion stops working and precision starts.

DesignUp E3: Fonz Morris on the taboo of talking money in design, and the Netflix password-sharing project that added $3B in annual revenue.

A side trip from the DesignUp series: notes on DigiLocker-scale constraints, the maker mindset, and why taste matters more, not less, once AI makes shipping easy.

DesignUp E2: Alex Skougarevskaya (Canva) on design career growth as a change in currency, and the three questions to ask before stepping up.

DesignUp E1: Maria Rosala opens the series with the Panchatantra, and why human research stays irreplaceable even as AI finds patterns faster than any of us.

My first design conference, Kyoorius Design Yatra, and the delivery run a few weeks later where the lesson actually landed.

Running Flux LoRA on my own photos didn't just make a fun profile picture. It showed me a version of myself worth working toward.

I ran a team Design Day at Porter with one goal: remove the fear around Gen AI tools and make the team excited to play. Team anthems included.

Notes from a Razorpay AI x Design meetup: an AI-first workflow at Razorpay, why taste survives automation, and a bet that designers who embrace AI will outpace those who don't.