AI-Assisted Coding for Designers E6: Plan & Ship Your App

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AI-Assisted Coding for Designers E6: Plan & Ship Your App

Hosted by Junaid Dodhia and Xinran Ma

306 students

What you'll learn

Intro to Tailwind + shadcn/ui

Use utility classes and pre-built components to create clean, modern UIs without starting from scratch.

Designing with Developer Constraints

Understand spacing systems, layout grids, and design tokens that help your UI scale.

Scoping a Feature or MVP

Learn how to break your app idea into features, flows, and priorities.

Deploying to Vercel

Push your app live with one-click deployment and connect it to your GitHub repo.

Making It Real

Add polish, test flows, and plan how to share your live app.

Why this topic matters

Styling isn’t just about visuals—it’s about usability, hierarchy, and scale. This session helps you bridge the gap between design and code. In addition, shipping is a skill and a mindset. As the final session of the series, it also helps you go from “I built this” to “It’s live.” You’ll leave with a real product, a link to share, and the clarity to build again.

You'll learn from

Junaid Dodhia

Software Engineer | Designer | Coding Instructor

Junaid is an engineer, designer, and coding instructor working at the intersection of design, code, and human behavior. He was an early engineer at YC-backed startups and holds a Master’s in Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon University.

He teaches coding at Tutor Corps and has taught K–12 students at Coding Minds Academy, where he led introductory coding classes and contributed to curriculum design and mentorship. He's passionate about helping designers build technical confidence and bring their ideas to life.

Junaid builds with a production-ready stack and AI-powered code editors, blending speed with systems thinking and human-centered design. His work focuses on shaping tools that shape how we learn, create, and collaborate.

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Xinran Ma

Founder of Design with AI | AI Course Instructor | 3x Author

Xinran Ma is the founder of Design with AI (designwithai.co), speaker, and award-winning designer.

Design with AI is one of the fastest-growing AI communities (over 2,000 new members every month), with subscribers from companies like Google, Amazon, IBM, and McKinsey.

He is also the author of multiple Amazon #1 New Release books in UX. He has mentored 300+ product designers and been awarded ADPList's Top 1% Mentor in Design 5 times.

He regularly delivers lectures and conducts AI workshops at places such as Microsoft, Columbia Business School, UXPA, University of Connecticut, and Pratt Institute. His work has been featured in leading publications, including Designboom, UX Collective, ArchDaily, American Illustration, Society of Illustrators, 3x3 Magazine, and Medium.

Xinran teaches the course AI for Product Designers on Maven.

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