Jacques Ramphal
I'm a designer working where design, code, and AI meet.
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Designing Genie
How a personal automation experiment became a shared platform for the delivery team, and the three mental model problems that had to be solved to design for agentic AI.
Token Pipeline for a Multi-Brand Platform
How I built a unified token architecture, an AI-guarded lint pipeline, and a one-command dev loop that kept Figma, code, and AI tooling in sync across four brands, two themes, and two modalities, for a multi-display, multi-brand product platform.
The /design Agent
An isolated Storybook environment powered by AI — one command to start. How I built a design layer on top of an agentic framework, and what I learned about operationalizing change in a service company where the best handoff is still a handoff.
✏️ Writing
The Future of Design, Revisited
Two years ago I guessed where design was going. Every guess has been answered.
The Answer Is Always Yes
A design-engineering stance: limitations are sequencing problems, not blockers.
This Workman Blames His Tools
A bad workman blames his tools—but sometimes the tool is the ceiling. On how Figma labels designers as picture-makers, why every visual builder trades one lock-in for another, and the build workflow that removes the handoff so the thing you design is the thing that ships.
