Design Starts Before the Interface
Agents can compress weeks of product review by exposing gaps in a loose brief before anyone commits to a polished interface.
Developed from a conversation between Pete Winn, Andy David and Jarrad Grigg
A typical software brief is passed between product managers, designers, engineers and quality assurance specialists until its gaps have been found. At enterprise scale, Jarrad Grigg says that line-by-line review can take weeks. His agent-assisted process brings the same perspectives into the work earlier, when changing a requirement is still easier than changing a finished product.
Jarrad defines each agent’s abilities in Markdown, then has the agents challenge the requirements and identify what’s missing. He runs repeated review rounds until the brief is sufficiently hardened. Only then does a designer agent turn the agreed requirements into a rough Unicode interface, giving him something concrete to refine without pretending that visual polish can resolve an unclear product.
Once the requirements and rough layout hold together, Jarrad can send the work into tools such as Pencil, Paper or Figma and apply a design system before making manual adjustments. Using this process, he built a complete Flutter app in three and a half hours. The speed came from settling what needed to be built before spending time on how it should look.