Brett Williams - How a Visual Designer Became a Builder
Jun 16, 2026•50 min•Ep. 169
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Episode description
What does it look like when a designer with zero technical background commits to shipping something real?
That’s what this week’s episode with Brett Williams is all about.
He gives us a behind-the-scenes of his journey building Gather including:
- Brett’s process for iterating on a design
- Brett’s new prototyping.md skill workflow
- How Brett maintains control while building with AI
- Brett’s strategy for adding sound design to Gather
- When Brett relies on Figma vs. explores directly in code
- a lot more
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