Designers who ship

1:1 pairing sessions for Dialpad designers learning to build with AI tools. You work together on real tasks using Claude Code. Driver/navigator format, like pair programming but for designers.

This is not a coding course. You're learning to understand the medium well enough to evaluate output, join technical conversations, and make your case for users. Your design training is the hard part. Spacing, typography, interaction quality, knowing when something feels off. That's what makes you better at directing AI than someone without your background.

The sessions

3 sessions. Watch, pair, then fly solo.

#	Session	Format	What happens
1	My turn	Facilitator drives, you watch	See the full design rhythm in action. Understand why this matters.
2	Pair build	Facilitator drives, then you drive	Build something real together. You take the keyboard halfway through.
3	Your turn	You drive, facilitator navigates	You pick the task, you direct Claude, facilitator only helps when you're stuck.

The reference material

After the sessions, this site is yours. Come back whenever you need to.

• The process for the design workflow and when to reach for commands
• The toolkit for every Beacon command, agent, skill, and hook explained for designers
• Getting started for quick reference
• Project IRL for the full arc of a real design project

Why this exists

Designers have always been told they don't need to be technical. That advice sounded generous. It wasn't. It cut designers out of the conversations where product decisions actually happen.

AI didn't cause this. It made it visible. And it also happens to be the way out.