AI-assisted design methodology tool
OOUX
event-state-surface
built with Claude
validated with designers
Problem & Solution
The Problem
Designers jump into Figma too fast. The hard work of product design - mapping the states, understanding the rules underneath the screens - gets skipped because the tools push you straight to pixels. The result is interfaces that look polished but fall apart the moment a real user, a real edge case, or a real engineer touches them.
I see this every week at work, in mentoring conversations, and in my own early work. It's not a skill gap, it's a tooling gap. The thinking layer is missing.
What I believe
I see this problem every week at work, in mentoring conversations, and in my own early work. It's not a skill gap, it's a tooling gap. The after-brief pre-Figma layer is missing.That means a solution with: low friction, AI-assisted where it helps, opinionated where it matters, and structured around the frameworks senior designers already use (OOUX, event-state-surface) rather than inventing a new vocabulary.
What I'm building.
Flowprint is a design methodology tool that walks designers through objects, states, surfaces, and flows before they open Figma. AI is a working partner inside it: surfacing missing states, challenging assumptions, suggesting edge cases the designer hasn't considered, without taking the thinking away from them. The product is opinionated about the order of operations, because the order is the point.
What it's already shown me
The product is teaching me how designers actually fail at systems thinking. A common pattern is lack of understanding what data is actually used to populate content. This is even more pressing with AI vs platform behaviour and how these two connect.
Roadmap
AI as a thinking partner. Not a screen generator. Flowprint's AI will challenge assumptions and surface missing states — the questions a senior designer would ask in a crit.
A bridge into design tools. From Flowprint's object maps and state inventories straight into Figma, Cursor, and Lovable. The thinking shouldn't get thrown away when design begins.
The methodology, taught. Flowprint as a teaching tool for design teams, making senior thinking visible so junior thinking gets better.