Working with AI Intro
Drafting alt text with AI — and the part only you can write
A generated alt text describes the picture. A correct one describes the information that picture carries in this context. Those are often not the same thing.
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Working with AI Advanced
Illustrations as code: SVG that follows your design tokens
Keep illustrations as code rather than image files and a rebrand has nothing to re-export. One rule holds the whole structure up: no colours inside the SVG.
Working with AI Practical
Getting a useful design critique out of an AI
Ask "what do you think of this design" and you get compliments. Useful answers appear once you fill in four boxes: context, audience, criteria and format.
Working with AI Practical
Before you put an AI-generated image on the web
Generating the image takes seconds. What comes after does not: matching tone across a set, getting the file weight under control, and deciding what you will claim the…
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Working with AI
Writing a CLAUDE.md — teaching an AI coding assistant your project
AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor and Copilot do better work the more precisely they know your project. Here is a structure and a set of principles that hold up.
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Working with AI
Prompting an AI for UI design — drafting with Claude and GPT
Asking an AI to "make a nice button" gets you a disappointing button. Structured prompts that carry constraints, references and a defined role get you the design you meant.
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Themes & plugins
SCSS from the ground up — variables through module structure
The core syntax of SCSS (Sass) and what it solves that plain CSS cannot: variables, nesting, mixins, @use and module structure — organised around patterns you can use immediately.
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Themes & plugins
Design tokens and theme colour systems — brand identity in SCSS variables
How to turn a colour palette from a pile of hex codes into a system that means something — semantic token structure and SCSS variable patterns, from a real project.
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Performance optimization
Designing a responsive typography system — the science of readability
Hard-coded pixel font sizes are over. Type scales, fluid sizing with clamp(), Korean webfont optimisation and line-height ratios — building typography that reads well on any screen.
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Development workflow
From Figma to SCSS — a designer-developer handoff guide
Minimising what gets lost between a Figma file and the code: extracting tokens, naming components, keeping the spacing system in sync — the whole workflow, step by step.