Demystifying Design.md

Hosted by Anna Arteeva

Tue, Aug 11, 2026

3:00 PM UTC (30 minutes)

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AI Prototyping for Designers
Anna Arteeva
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What you'll learn

What design.md really is, and what it isn't

Cut through the myths and the hype to find out why it's no silver bullet.

Why one design.md can't serve every project

From throwaway prototype to production codebase, what should change, and why?

The hidden cost of an overspecified design.md

When do more rules start working against you? The tipping point may surprise you.

Why this topic matters

There's a lot of confusion, and a fair amount of myth, about what a design.md file actually is. It isn't a silver bullet, and it isn't one universal for every context file. This session clears up the common misconceptions and gives you a practical way to think about it, walking through how design.md should look for a throwaway prototype versus a scalable system and a production codebase.

You'll learn from

Anna Arteeva

Design Leader turned AI-Code Educator

Anna Arteeva is a product design leader, builder, and AI prototyping educator with a technical background, formerly Head of Product Design at Payoneer. She helps teams move past AI hype and into building things that ship: real interfaces built with design systems and reusable components, wired to data and non-trivial logic, and ready for handover instead of getting stuck as "just a prototype."

Her work sits in the messy middle between design craft and engineering reality, where good taste meets solid foundations: clear technical vocabulary, strong product judgment, and workflows that scale from fast vibe-coding to robust, maintainable code.

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Payoneer
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