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Flora Guo

What Flora Guo thinks about design

@flora-guo · 15 positions · 0 changes of mind

Founding design engineer at Paradigm as of March 2026, earlier at Vercel.

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  1. Our readingFor any designer who is building projects, this is an incredible time to share with the internet online.

    Their wordsI think any designer who's building projects, it's just such an incredible time that we live in to get to share with the internet online.

    ↗Flora Guo - How to accelerate your design career with AIyoutube.com 2nd of 15 in this recording

  3. Our readingDesign engineering goes much deeper than the surface of how something looks; it is having the context and ability to translate an intention into what the user actually experiences.

    Their wordsit really shows you that design engineering goes much deeper than the surface of how something looks. It's really having the context and the ability to take an intention and translate it into what the user is actually experiencing.

    ↗Flora Guo - How to accelerate your design career with AIyoutube.com 4th of 15 in this recording

  5. Our readingMaking for the love of making rather than for a finish line is inspiring, and design is a practice that never ends.

    Their wordsI think it's so inspiring to be surrounded by people who make for the love of making, not because you're looking to wrap a specific project or, you know, just get something done because that's the finish line. It's really appreciating design as this journey of this practice that never ends.

    ↗Flora Guo - How to accelerate your design career with AIyoutube.com 5th of 15 in this recording

  7. Our readingWith AI, work is moving up the layers of abstraction, but the more context someone has about how things work under the hood, the better equipped they are to debug and build resilient things.

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    Their wordsAnd I think with AI we're also moving up the layers of abstraction. So we're not writing every function by hand, like no one's doing that. But the more context that you do have about how it works under the hood, so how React works, you know, how our props being passed through, we're much better equipped to actually debug and build things that are resilient.

    ↗Flora Guo - How to accelerate your design career with AIyoutube.com 9th of 15 in this recording

  9. Our readingPeople should use AI to scaffold their own learning and then flesh it out by building projects.

    Their wordsI would really encourage people to just think about ways that they can use AI to scaffold their own learning and then to flush it out by building projects,

    ↗Flora Guo - How to accelerate your design career with AIyoutube.com 10th of 15 in this recording

  11. Our readingA team should be aligned at a conceptual level before moving into visual experiments and prototypes, because a trap for designers is coming up with a bunch of options and picking one too early.

    Their wordsI think it's so important to really be aligned at a conceptual level before we even start moving into like visual experiments and prototypes because I think one trap that we can fall into as designers is coming up with like a bunch of options and then picking one too early.

    ↗Flora Guo - How to accelerate your design career with AIyoutube.com 11th of 15 in this recording

  13. Our readingStaying up to date works by staying broad, building out whatever really grabs attention, and then repeating that cycle of going broad and then going deep.

    Their wordsSo, staying broad, keeping all this context and then when something really grabs your attention, you're like, okay, now I have to build it out. Now I have to try it out. And then it's just continuing to return to like go broad and then go deep and repeating that process.

    ↗Flora Guo - How to accelerate your design career with AIyoutube.com 13th of 15 in this recording

  15. Our readingRather than having AI just do the task, people should use it to help build the right mental models.

    Their wordsBut, I really encourage us to flip it and be like, "How can we use AI to help us build the right mental models that we need?

    ↗Flora Guo - How to accelerate your design career with AIyoutube.com 14th of 15 in this recording