My cousin called me a few weeks ago. He wants to get into design.

My cousin called me a few weeks ago. He wants to get into design. Two hours on the phone, and it came down to one question: where do I even start.

Most advice online is stale. Written by people who stopped shipping years ago and are now writing about having shipped years ago.

Here is what I actually told him. Figma first, day one, no detours into Sketch or XD. Then AI tools immediately, not once you feel ready. v0 by Vercel turns a sentence into working code before you have drawn a single wireframe. Lovable ships a working front end from a description.

And prompt craft is not a personality trait. It is a skill. Write the same brief three ways, one vague, one detailed, one detailed with constraints. Run all three. Compare. Do that twenty times and you will out-prompt people who have been doing this for years.

Open v0 right now. Describe one screen you keep meaning to build. See what comes back in under a minute.