Design skills and tools I've tried that are actually useful Made by designers or design engineers ↓

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Designers will lose their jobs in 2027. Here's why. not because AI got good at design. because a developer with these 7 free repos can now do 80% of what they used to pay a designer for. and most designers haven't opened a single one. -> Figma-Context-MCP gives a coding agent your Figma file. the README says it builds designs in one shot, and does it better than pasting screenshots github.com/GLips/Figma-Conte… -> Penpot the open-source Figma alternative. its MCP server lets AI read and edit designs, and pass them to code and back github.com/penpot/penpot -> Onlook an AI-first design tool. you edit the actual code visually, like you're in a design app github.com/onlook-dev/onlook -> React Bits the biggest open-source library of animated React components. the "premium" landing page look, copy and paste github.com/DavidHDev/react-b… -> HyperFrames write HTML, get a finished video. made by HeyGen for AI agents. product promos without a motion designer github.com/heygen-com/hyperf… -> MCP for Blender connects Blender to Claude or any other model. the agent builds and edits real 3D scenes github.com/ahujasid/mcp-for-… -> graphify point it at your brand folder: guidelines, PDFs, images, old projects. it turns all of it into a knowledge graph your agent can search, so every design it makes follows your rules github.com/Graphify-Labs/gra… ~360k stars between them. $0 to start. here's the uncomfortable part: the designers who lose their jobs won't lose them to AI. they'll lose them to the designer who learned these first. taste is still yours. the hours aren't. bookmark this before your next client finds it first.

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ABSOLUTELY SHAMELESS. Julia contacted me to work for @yourpersona and mentioned they were looking to hire full-time. After our call, she took many days to reply. I assumed she was busy, so I let time pass. Then she came back with a project and said: “We changed it to make it easier and less time consuming. To preface, it won’t be paid (I wanted to be clear, since I mentioned that in our last call), since we just want fast work so we can speed up the hiring process. We love your work!” Two things: 1. She never mentioned it wouldn’t be paid on our last call, but I didn’t think much of it. 2.She said she wants to speed up the hiring process. I worked hard on the project. It took me 2-3 hours, on top of a 24-hour deadline for another client, because I wanted to make a good first impression. I submitted it and waited. I knew I did well, and I was confident my designs were better than anyone’s. I waited patiently for days. Then she sent this: “Hey, I have an update! The team thinks you’re a great designer and we would love to work with you, we’re just a little too early to expand right now. We’d love to stay in touch and reconnect in a month or two! I’ll hit you up then :)” Mind you, she said they wanted to hire fast. Now they’re “a little too early to expand”? And she went on to post this engagement farming post. Why is she posting this when she’s already “found” me? The team supposedly thinks I’m great and would love to work with me. I contacted a few friends here on X who have viral posts like mine. They got the exact same message from her. If you’re not ready to expand, why ask for a free trial and promise a full-time role? And why are you now shamelessly posting this to get people to do more free work and hand over more free ideas for your app?