Tools the Vercel product design team actually uses
The Vercel product design team recently shared insights on the diverse tools they use for design work during a team meeting. The team exhibits a wide range of AI tool adoption, with varying opinions on their effectiveness in creative processes. As design workflows evolve, challenges arise from the integration of production and design, prompting the development of new tools to enhance collaboration and efficiency.
- ▪The team uses a variety of design tools, with each member having different preferences.
- ▪AI tools for design are perceived as lagging compared to those for engineering, leading to mixed feelings among team members.
- ▪Designers are increasingly coding, which has changed the relationship between design files and production.
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←BackTools the Vercel Product Design Team Actually UsesApril 28, 2026This writeup will be out of date within weeks, but that’s ok. This is a snapshot in time kind of post. Design tools are changing fast in a world that has never felt more disrupt-able. For our latest team meeting, I hosted a design tooling Show and Tell, where product designers shared what tools they are actually using for design work. My takeaways were: Even within our small team, everyone is using completely different tools right now.We have a wide range of AI usage, from early adopters who haven’t gone a day without using AI in 6 months to skeptics who still find it mostly useless in their creative endeavors. AI tools for design workflows are clunky and lagging behind relative to AI tooling for engineering workflows.
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