One Designer + AI. Hundreds of Deliverables. — Vincent Wendy, AI Engineer
Sep 10, 2026 · 16:48
Vincent Wendy, the sole senior creative designer at AI Engineer, explains how he alone designs for a conference that grew to 7,000 attendees, 140+ sponsors, 300+ speakers, and 600+ sessions. His five-part method—build the foundation first, make designs reusable, automate workflows, validate output, and remove friction—starts with a tightly defined design system so LLMs like Devin and GPT cannot invent their own font sizes, letting marketing build emails and flyers from the website alone. Room schedules once laid out by hand in Figma now pull fresh from live data via Devin, export to PNG, and ship to screens on a flash drive. A generator produces pixel-perfect announcement graphics and trading cards for all 300 speakers, and Devin matches photographers' shots to the right speaker, like identifying Jason Liu. Devin also caught every missing sponsor logo on the 140-plus-logo lobby banner and the conference t-shirt, and added an edit button to the schedule tool the morning one was needed—so with tools no longer the constraint, having a real problem is the advantage.
