Dive Club 🤿 Flora Guo - How to accelerate your design career with AI
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Mar 25, 2026 Flora Guo, a design engineer and founding design engineer at Paradigm known for her public design experiments and work at Vercel. She talks about building AI-first product workflows, using AI as a patient learning partner, experiments with tools like Variant and Paper, and how sharing playful projects and proactive outreach shaped her career.
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Publishing Stamps From Conference Notes
- Flora built a visual “stamp” project to publish her Tokyo Design Forum notes and surfaced learnings from talks by Brian Levin and Rio to capture ideas she wanted to revisit.
- The project grew from personal note-taking into a sharable artifact that increased her visibility and seeded conversations online.
Show Up With Gifts Not Requests
- Do show up online by sharing artifacts you love and host spaces to gather people around shared interests to grow meaningful connections.
- Flora credits most freelance clients and job leads to starting conversations from tweets, DMs, and hosted events.
DMing The CEO Led To An Internship
- Flora made a V0 project (a digital gift box) that reached the Vercel team and led Guillermo to DM her about working there.
- Her earlier DM to Guillermo thanking him for V0 also created the personal connection that preceded hiring conversations.