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Kris Puckett

What Kris Puckett thinks about design

@kris-puckett · 20 positions · 0 changes of mind

Design manager at Stripe, who previously led design at Mercury and designed for Dropbox and Facebook.

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10 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Kris Puckett has said — not written or endorsed by them.

  1. Our readingThere are massive unlocks for AI around workflows, content design, organization and analysis, beyond generating a product, app or website.

    Anthropic

    Their wordsThere are other massive unlocks to me for AI around workflows, around like how whether it's content design, things that you wouldn't see, organization, like analysis. So these Claude code skills, you can I mean you can create anything that's repeatable pattern. You can create a Claude code skill for.

    ↗Kris Puckett - Becoming an AI-native designeryoutube.com 4th of 20 in this recording

  3. Our readingBecause LLMs are pattern matchers, they are fantastic at quickly spotting patterns that people miss, and can act as a mirror showing what a person is missing about themselves and their work.

    LLMs

    Their wordsat their core LLMs are just pattern matching and so they are fantastic at very quickly identifying patterns that even though the human brain is an unbelievable like the greatest pattern matcher in history, we still have these gaps. And so you can use AI to become this mirror that's like reflecting back at you some things that you might be missing about yourself and your work and where you're at.

    ↗Kris Puckett - Becoming an AI-native designeryoutube.com 6th of 20 in this recording

  5. Our readingLLMs probably do not do creative exploration very well by default, but they can be taught divergent thinking very quickly.

    LLMs

    Their wordsOne thing that LLMs I don't think do really well at is like creative exploration, but you can teach it to do divergent thinking very quickly.

    ↗Kris Puckett - Becoming an AI-native designeryoutube.com 7th of 20 in this recording

  7. Our readingBeing AI native has to go beyond making a cool shader or a dither effect that every other person is making.

    Their wordsSo AI native has to be beyond just like I made a really cool shader or I made this like dither effect that every other person is making.

    ↗Kris Puckett - Becoming an AI-native designeryoutube.com 12th of 20 in this recording

  9. Our readingMCPs are not going anywhere, but they will change, and more companies will lean toward better semantic APIs and CLIs than MCPs.

    MCP

    Their wordsMCPs are they're not going anywhere. Anyone who says an MCP is dead is like, that's hype. Like that's crazy. But, they're going to change quite a bit and we're going to see a lot more companies leaning more and towards better semantic APIs and CLIs than they will an MCP

    ↗Kris Puckett - Becoming an AI-native designeryoutube.com 14th of 20 in this recording

  11. Our readingAn MCP fills up an AI's context window very quickly.

    MCP

    Their wordsthe context window, the window that the AI can hold and think gets filled up very quickly with an MCP.

    ↗Kris Puckett - Becoming an AI-native designeryoutube.com 15th of 20 in this recording

  13. Our readingProducts should be designed with agents in mind, because a lot more agents will be doing the work for people and designers have to think that through.

    Their wordsdo your products have an agentic focus to them? Or is everything readable by an agent because there's going to be a lot more agents doing the work for people. So you have to like think through that as a designer.

    ↗Kris Puckett - Becoming an AI-native designeryoutube.com 16th of 20 in this recording

  15. Our readingDesigners looking for a role need to demonstrate that they understand AI systems and are actually building something with them.

    Their wordsyou have to demonstrate that you understand these systems and you're like you're actually building something with them. Whether it is like another shader plugin system, just do something with it to see and explore and be able to to talk to it and like talk through the process.

    ↗Kris Puckett - Becoming an AI-native designeryoutube.com 17th of 20 in this recording

  17. Our readingA portfolio on a basic Squarespace template will probably get passed on even if the content is really good.

    Their wordsif your site is on Squarespace and it's a basic Squarespace template, you're probably going to get passed on even if the content's really good.

    ↗Kris Puckett - Becoming an AI-native designeryoutube.com 18th of 20 in this recording

  19. Our readingThe bar is so high that designers who are not using AI tools to differentiate themselves will get left behind.

    Their wordsthe bar is so high. Like everyone wants the same type of designer, the same shape of designer that if you're not using these tools to differentiate yourself a little bit like you are going to get left behind and that sucks.

    ↗Kris Puckett - Becoming an AI-native designeryoutube.com 19th of 20 in this recording