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Marvin Schwaibold leads the product design studio at Shopify, where his team is rethinking some of the company’s most important products for the AI era. Before Shopify, he co-founded the design studio Molly, working with companies including Apple and Google and building a reputation for highly crafted, interactive design.
In this episode of Design Review, Marvin joins YC’s Aaron Epstein to show how AI has changed his process, from using Figma as a scratchpad to building working prototypes directly with tools like Codex. He explains why designers are becoming more like editors, how AI is making them more full-stack, and why taste and judgment matter even more when the tools can build almost anything.
Then they review viewer-submitted websites and break down how hierarchy, motion, typography, and restraint can make a product feel more intentional.
00:00 — Inside Shopify’s Design Studio
00:30 — Designing With AI
01:44 — Designers Are Becoming Editors
03:25 — How Design Works at Shopify
05:58 — From Molly to Shopify
08:55 — Designing for Exploration
10:22 — Why the Details Matter
11:33 — Designing the Future at Shopify
13:24 — Prototypes Beat PRDs
15:29 — Rethinking Shopify With Sidekick
17:52 — Designers Are Becoming Builders
21:58 — Recreating Reality
24:33 — Dialing In AI-Generated Design
28:31 — Raising the Bar
31:04 — Website Review: Endstack
35:02 — SkillSync
40:49 — Instaplay
45:34 — Mintlify
51:42 — Knowlify
58:34 — Instinct Space
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Thanks @aaron_epstein and @eve_bouff for having me on the Design Review at @ycombinator and letting me talk about carousel spring animations, grass shaders and some of the new work we’re cooking up in the design studio at @Shopify
worked on adding a small feature to @joshpuckett's DialKit today
a more visual way to save and browse different versions of your work
i've had a hard time trying to describe what i'm feeling working with the models right now.
they're so damn good at implementing anything you ask.
but often what you ask for isn't necessarily what you want holistically. as you build, you shape the thing into something else, and perhaps what you initially implemented is no longer right — meaning it now has to be reconciled with the new reality of what you're building.
what's beautiful is with enough shaping, QA'ing, refactoring, and relentless iteration, these models can build really, really fantastic software through just sheer attrition.
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Dear @claudeai, you have amazing models, and you probably have even better ones available internally. Could you please ask your Super Intelligence to simply copy the UX of the Codex desktop app? Their app is obviously better.
Your quality bar for UX/design is much lower than Codex’s or Cursor’s. It would be amazing to fix that.
So far, you have a competitive advantage in the design community: your models are simply better at motion and design, so I still have to use your app for certain tasks. But it’s extremely painful to use your application after experiencing better alternatives.
this is one of the coolest things i've ever seen
Through the VOICE trial, Terry is using his Neuralink implant to help fine-tune a brain-to-voice interface for himself and others who can’t speak. He trained the algorithm first by miming speech as best he could, then by simply thinking the words and hearing them come out in his own natural voice.
Powered by Grok Voice from @spacexai
Impressive that this is the best they can try to attack the @ndstudio for
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