Derek Briggs
Person on 5 sites
Derek Briggs is a designer who also writes code, a principal designer at Shopify as of November 2026.
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11 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Works in: Design and code, by his GitHub bio (opens wiqqi.app)
- Shopify: Principal designer (as of November 2026) (opens wiqqi.app)
- Recruited to Shopify by: Carl Rivera and Cynthia Savard Saucier, then a VP there, during a short break after Hypermode (opens wiqqi.app)
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3 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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20 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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It is very difficult to innovate in design with AI, because agents can only do what they have learned and innovation happens in what has never happened before. (opens korrents.com)
“Agents are capable of doing what they've learned to do, and innovation happens in what has never happened before. So it's very difficult, and my personal opinion is it's very difficult to innovate in design with AI,…”
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Designers need to spend more time on the artboard, because a lot of prompting just produces whatever an agent will do. (opens korrents.com)
“I think that designers need to spend some more time on the artboard at times. I think that there's a lot of prompting happening that just results in what an agent will do for you.”
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Designers should own the quality of the output rather than rely on their agents to determine it. (opens korrents.com)
“But right now in this era, I think designers even more should really own what the quality of output is rather than relying on their agents to, to determine what the quality is.”
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It is very difficult to innovate in design with AI, because agents can only do what they have learned and innovation happens in what has never happened before. (opens korrents.com)
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1 recommendation on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Motion (opens rcmnd.app)
“I had rewritten this from Swiper to Motion's carousel engine, which is just amazing.”
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Motion (opens rcmnd.app)
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1 episode on podqast (opens podqast.app)