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April 6, 20268 min read

How I Connected Figma MCP to Claude and Automated My Design System Workflow

Tokens drift. Figma specs go stale. Devs implement a 'close enough' version and nobody catches it until QA. I wired Figma MCP to Claude, and that problem mostly went away. Here's exactly how I did it.

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April 6, 20266 min read

How I Turn User Interview Transcripts into a PRD Using AI

User research synthesis used to eat 3-4 days per round. Raw transcripts, sticky note sessions, affinity mapping, then writing everything up. I now do it in a few hours using Claude. Here's the workflow.

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