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Season 3 is here with new co-host Lily. This episode tackles a question every designer should sit with: are you mastering your craft, or just mastering your tools?
They dig into why "Figma" isn't a skill, designers vibe coding their own tools, and what a pro photographer with a Barbie camera teaches about fundamentals. Plus: why cross-platform handoffs are still broken, what AI agent demos conveniently skip, and the Ferrari Luce debate, where brand legacy meets bold new design.
00:00 Intro: Welcome to Season 3
00:14 Craft vs. Tooling: The Core Debate
01:18 Building Your Own Tools
03:40 Analog vs. Hyper-Future
05:22 Tooling That Incentivizes Better Design
06:49 Designing for Context, Not Just Platform
08:22 Cross-Platform Continuity & The AI Demo Problem
18:24 Bringing It Back: What Is Craft, Really?
20:09 How Tool Companies Captured Design Culture
22:45 The Ferrari Luce: When Brand Meets New Craft
27:00 Digital vs. Tactile in Car Interiors
32:37 Wrap-Up: Own the Vertical
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Season 3 is here with new co-host Lily. This episode tackles a question every designer should sit with: are you mastering your craft, or just mastering your tools?
They dig into why "Figma" isn't a skill, designers vibe coding their own tools, and what a pro photographer with a Barbie camera teaches about fundamentals. Plus: why cross-platform handoffs are still broken, what AI agent demos conveniently skip, and the Ferrari Luce debate, where brand legacy meets bold new design.
00:00 Intro: Welcome to Season 3
00:14 Craft vs. Tooling: The Core Debate
01:18 Building Your Own Tools
03:40 Analog vs. Hyper-Future
05:22 Tooling That Incentivizes Better Design
06:49 Designing for Context, Not Just Platform
08:22 Cross-Platform Continuity & The AI Demo Problem
18:24 Bringing It Back: What Is Craft, Really?
20:09 How Tool Companies Captured Design Culture
22:45 The Ferrari Luce: When Brand Meets New Craft
27:00 Digital vs. Tactile in Car Interiors
32:37 Wrap-Up: Own the Vertical