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Design leads at Perplexity & Vercel talk AI workflows

Published 20 August 2026 · Source dated 29 October 2025

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Design leaders from Perplexity, Vercel and elsewhere shared how AI is actually changing day-to-day design work, not just the hype version. The recurring theme: roles are blurring, with one designer touching UI, motion and even audio in a single flow.

A live panel (hosted by Dive Club, 29 Oct 2025) put VP-level designers from Perplexity and the team behind Vercel's v0 in the same room to talk real AI workflows — not demos. Key point: AI is collapsing the boundaries between disciplines. A single designer might now sketch UI, nudge motion, and generate supporting assets in one pass, pulling in skills that used to sit with separate specialists. For juniors, the takeaway isn't "learn every discipline" — it's that being comfortable stitching outputs from different tools together is becoming a real skill, not a nice-to-have. This is adoption, not hype: these are practitioners describing shipped work, not vendors pitching a roadmap.

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