Owen Williams ⚡

Kiwi in Canada • Design manager @stripe leading the Developer Experience, Extensibility, and AI teams. Prev @shopify.

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Some personal news 🐶

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@pmarquees @mschoening It’s the forever curse!! I refuse to buy their stuff now

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@saismo It’s hard to go back once you’ve used the Apple TV. Samsung’s software is just so jank.

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@zoink Shut up and take my money (pls)

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@clairevo Three?!

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my 2.5 year old told me "dad get off your phone" today and ive never felt so called out

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@joshpuckett @obrate @FlySWISS Air Canada just opened one last year in SFO and it’s my fav stop on the trip haha

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@danimalnelson @brian_lovin @intrater Forgot to tell you that’s my ow_bot 🤪

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have been considering putting together an IRL evening in San Francisco this summer with some other rad folks like @brian_lovin @intrater that are working on ~internal~ design prototyping tools. anyone interested?

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While your team is just getting started vibe coding prototypes, the team at @stripe is vibe coding a full vibe coding platform.

@ow is a design manager at Stripe who built Protodash - an internal AI prototyping tool that lets designers and PMs spin up real, clickable prototypes in minutes.

In this ep he walks through:

- why generic AI tools produce "blurple slop" that doesn't match your design system
- how he built a full prototyping studio on top of dev boxes with cursor + cc
- why more PMs than designers now use Protodash
- the design review mode that lets teams ship feedback direct in the app

Plus, we talk about getting to the ultimate dream: demos, not memos.

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Full episode on yt: https://t.co/ZH43aFsq3M

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@kurissuuu @brian_lovin @intrater MATE come hang pls

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@edrhuang @soleio @brian_lovin @intrater @mercury Oh heck yeah would love to hear about this!

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@gjaloveckas @brian_lovin @intrater Whoa that’s awesome, would love to hear about that

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@Ruchitalodha @brian_lovin @intrater So rad!!

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@ryyyanleeeee @brian_lovin @intrater So good! Will workshop some dates!! 🙏

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@AnthonyMenecola @brian_lovin @intrater Oh heck yes!!

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@andrewculver @brian_lovin @intrater Yo ok I’m hype gonna throw some dates around soon

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@tomjohndesign @BrinkleyRv @Starlink This is sick as heck, the dream. Doing the Starlink thing part time in our airstream but this is next level!!!

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@brian_lovin @intrater Honestly it would be so fun, gonna start planning when im back at work in a week!!

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@AdamWhitcroft @kepano Whoa this is slick dude! Nice job

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@auchenberg @united @AirCanada This has happened to me before lol. Standing at the gate and the agent insisting they can’t edit the flight because it’s a codeshare so I should go to the other company but I just came from there where they said the same thing 🤦‍♀️

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Super cool to be reading the (amazing) State of AI design report this morning and see the lil' prototyping tool I've been building show up in there ❤️ https://t.co/mCGkvqJMAD