Chris Whalen
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Selected Writing

Designing with AI in the Room

Four Days with Claude: A Design System Experiment

What happened when I handed a real design system problem to Claude and worked alongside it for a week.

The Vibe-Coding Playbook

ChatGPT-5, Cursor, and Figma Make — a working playbook for designers who want to ship, not just prototype.

Designing with AI in the Room

The anchor essay. How I think about AI as a design tool, what it changes about the craft, and what it doesn't.

Leadership at Scope

The Multiplier Operating Model

What Liz Wiseman's Multipliers looks like as a daily operating system — not a philosophy, but a practice.

The Discipline of Calling It

What the wind-down of Historik taught about leadership decisions you only learn by making them.

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