# How I Validated Design Decisions Before Writing Production Code

DevFeed: [How I Validated Design Decisions Before Writing Production Code](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-i-validated-design-decisions-before-writing-production-code-9134.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://slack.design/articles/how-i-validated-design-decisions-before-writing-production-code/>)

Author: andyacevedo

Published: 2026-06-04T01:29:47Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Slack Design](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/slack-design.md>)

Topics: [AI-assisted coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-assisted-coding.md>), [Data visualization](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-visualization.md>), [Algorithms](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/algorithms.md>), [Figma](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/figma.md>)

Tags: [ai-assisted-coding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-assisted-coding.md>), [algorithms](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/algorithms.md>), [data-visualization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-visualization.md>), [figma](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/figma.md>), [projects](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/projects.md>), [uncategorized](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/uncategorized.md>)

## AI overview

A Slack designer explains how AI-assisted coding can make design exploration practical before production work begins. Interactive prototypes tested gallery layout algorithms and max-width strategies against real screen-size data, revealing edge cases and helping evaluate which decisions hold up across conditions.

## Source excerpt

The biggest shift AI has brought to design isn't that designers can now write production code. It's that we can finally generate evidence before committing to anything. There's a lot of conversation about AI affecting production: designers pushing code and shipping something closer to the final product. That matters. But the bigger opportunity is even [...] The post How I Validated Design Decisions Before Writing Production Code appeared first on Slack Design.