Designers Who Ship Live now

From mockup to live product — in hours, not months

Stop handing off.
Start shipping.

The design-to-code course built around AI. Five modules. Five shipped products. One new career trajectory. Lifetime access, continuously updated.

Only 27 spots left at this price

Student review

You design it. Someone else
decides if it ships.

You've handed off specs that came back unrecognizable. You've watched engineers deprioritize your best work. You've sat in sprint planning knowing your designs won't ship this quarter. Maybe not next quarter either.

That's not a design problem. It's a dependency problem.

Designers who build don't wait for permission. They prototype in code, ship MVPs over a weekend, and walk into standups with working demos instead of Figma links. They get hired first, promoted faster, and command 3x the rate.

AI changed the math. Claude and Cursor write the code. You direct it. Three hours from mockup to deployed URL — no CS degree, no bootcamp, no begging for eng resources.

This course teaches the exact workflow.

Course preview — dashboard & code Course preview — Claude Code & Figma Course preview — VS Code project Course preview — Cursor agent
01

Figma to live URL. Same afternoon.

Not "learn to code someday." You'll go from a Figma frame to a deployed, working product in your first week. AI writes the code. You direct the craft.

~3 hrs from mockup to production
02

You direct. AI builds.

Claude writes the boilerplate. Cursor handles the debugging. You make the decisions that matter — what to build, how it looks, when it ships. Designer in the driver's seat.

10× faster than learning to code from scratch
03

The rate gap is real.

Designers who can only hand off compete for $50/hr gigs. Designers who ship command $150–400/hr. Same craft, different leverage. The gap widens every quarter.

$150–400 per hour for designers who build

Five modules. Five shipped
products. Zero fluff.

01 The
Shift

Module 01

The Shift: Why Designers
Who Build Win

+
01

Module One

The Shift: Why Designers Who Build Win

  • Why the handoff era is ending — and what replaces it
  • How Notion, Vercel, and Perplexity build products now
  • The design engineer role: what it is, what it pays, who's hiring
  • AI models demystified — LLMs, agents, IDE tools, what to use when
  • Picking your stack: the tools that actually matter
Outcome

You'll see exactly where the industry is headed — and why you're early, not late

02 AI
Toolkit

Module 02

Your AI Toolkit: Set Up
Once, Build Forever

+
02

Module Two

Your AI Toolkit: Set Up Once, Build Forever

  • Terminal, Git, VS Code — zero to comfortable in one session
  • Prompt engineering that actually gets clean code out of AI
  • Cursor, Claude Code, and Copilot — what each does best
  • Design tokens → working code: the bridge from Figma to production
  • Version control: branches, commits, PRs — the stuff teams actually use
Outcome

Your dev environment is set up, working, and no longer intimidating

03 Figma
to Code

Module 03

Figma to Code: Your First
Shipped Feature

+
03

Module Three

Figma to Code: Your First Shipped Feature

  • Your first AI-built component — from Figma frame to working React
  • Figma MCP, design tokens, and the pipelines that connect design to code
  • End-to-end shipping: build it, test it, deploy it. One sitting.
  • QA with AI — catch bugs before your users do
Outcome

You'll ship a real, working feature — not a tutorial exercise, a live product

04 Full
Stack

Module 04

Full-Stack in Days: From
Idea to Deployed Product

+
04

Module Four

Full-Stack in Days: From Idea to Deployed Product

  • Build a Figma plugin from scratch — with AI doing the heavy lifting
  • Automate the repetitive design tasks you've been doing manually
  • Create design system tooling your whole team will use
  • Publish to the Figma community — your name, your tool, real users
Outcome

A published Figma plugin with your name on it — used by real designers

05 Land
the Work

Module 05

Land the Work: Get Hired,
Get Paid, Get Known

+
05

Module Five

Land the Work: Get Hired, Get Paid, Get Known

  • Portfolio strategy — show what you shipped, not what you mocked up
  • Positioning: how to stand out in a market flooded with "UI/UX designers"
  • Working with eng teams — speak their language, earn their trust
  • Freelancing at $150–400/hr: pricing, clients, and saying no to lowball offers
Outcome

A portfolio that gets callbacks, a rate you're proud of, and a clear path forward

Outcomes

Not theory. Real proof you can build.

Cursor Claude Kiro MCPs GitHub Cursor Claude Kiro MCPs GitHub

Skill trajectory

The curve is
steeper than you think

Expert Advanced Mid Beginner
Week 1 Week 4 Week 8 Week 12

Average skill growth across 200+ students

Developer fluency

Talk to engineers.
Sound like one.

Git, APIs, deploys, PRs — the vocabulary that separates "I made a mockup" from "I shipped it."

API Git commit npm install Pull Request Branch Deploy Webhook Component Props Environment vars Merge conflict CI/CD Linting TypeScript types Schema Auth token

Real work

Every module ends with a deploy, not a deliverable

No hypothetical exercises. No "imagine you're building..." — you actually build it, deploy it, and put it in your portfolio.

AI dashboard app

Next.js · Supabase · Claude API

Figma plugin

TypeScript · Figma API

AI agent workflow

Cursor · Claude · GitHub

Live portfolio site

React · Tailwind · Vercel

From the first cohort

They designed. Now
they ship.

Sarah Kim testimonial
Watch story
"

I went from not knowing what a pull request was to shipping a full-stack AI app in 6 weeks. This course completely rewired how I think about design. I stopped waiting for engineers to build my ideas — now I just build them. My team noticed within two sprints.

Priya Nair testimonial
Watch story
"

The moment I shipped my first Claude-powered tool at work, my manager asked how long it took. I said two hours. He thought I was joking. I wasn't. That single demo changed how leadership sees our design team entirely.

design
engineer.pro

AI · Code · Ship

Who is this course actually for?

Product designers, UX designers, and design leads who want to stop handing off specs and start shipping working products. You don't need to code — but by the end, you will. If you can use Figma, you can take this course.

I've never written a line of code. Can I do this?

That's exactly who this is for. We start at zero — opening a terminal, making your first commit, writing your first component. The learning curve is real, but AI collapses what used to take months into weeks. By module 3, you'll have a deployed product with a URL you can share. Not someday. That week.

What's the stack? Do I need to pay for tools?

Cursor, Claude, Next.js, Tailwind, Supabase, Vercel. The same stack shipping at Perplexity, Linear, and dozens of AI-native startups. Everything is free or has a generous free tier — you won't spend a dollar beyond the course to follow along.

How long until I can actually build things?

Week 1: you'll ship your first component. Week 3–4: a working product. Most students finish the full course in 6–8 weeks at 5–7 hours per week. Fully self-paced, lifetime access, no deadlines breathing down your neck. Go fast or go steady — it's your call.

There are a hundred design courses. Why this one?

Most design courses end with a Figma file. This one ends with five deployed products. We don't teach you to make things look good — you already know that. We teach you to make things that work. AI-assisted development isn't a gimmick here. It's the entire workflow.

What if it's not for me?

14-day full refund. No questions, no guilt trip. If you're under 20% through and it doesn't click, email us and we'll send your money back. We'd rather you be honest than stuck.

AI tools change every month. Will this stay current?

Yes. One payment, lifetime access — every future update included. We know AI moves fast. The curriculum gets updated when the tools do. You'll get notified whenever new content drops. No upsells, no "premium tier."

You've read this far. You already know.

Design it.
Build it. Ship it.

Join designers from Stripe, Google, Vercel and Linear who stopped waiting for engineers — and started shipping themselves.

One-time payment · Lifetime access · 14-day refund