--- title: Your LLM Is Partner & Stakeholder: That Changes How You... description: An LLM now plays two roles at once in product design work: a creative partner and a stakeholder whose output must be managed. The author walks through the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/your-llm-is-partner-stakeholder-that-changes-how-you-design-vsleqohpd twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Your LLM Is Partner & Stakeholder: That Changes How You Design | daily.dev og:description: An LLM now plays two roles at once in product design work: a creative partner and a stakeholder whose output must be managed. The author walks through the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/your-llm-is-partner-stakeholder-that-changes-how-you-design-vsleqohpd og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/vSleqohPD.png og:image:alt: Your LLM Is Partner & Stakeholder: That Changes How You Design og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Your LLM Is Partner & Stakeholder: That Changes How You Design **[Atomic Spin](https://daily.dev/sources/atomicobject)** · 10 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary An LLM now plays two roles at once in product design work: a creative partner and a stakeholder whose output must be managed. The author walks through the discovery, definition, development and delivery arc and shows how the balance between those two roles shifts at each stage. In discovery, voice and chat work well for wide exploration, but the LLM's suggestions already start shaping the space. In definition, tools like Paper turn rough LLM-generated HTML/CSS/JS concepts into a manipulable canvas where components can be moved directly instead of only described in text. In development, Figma files drift from the live codebase, so working directly against the real product and changing one piece at a time protects the understanding built earlier. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### why does Figma feel slower now that I'm using an LLM to build UI directly in code Figma becomes a second source of truth that drifts from the actual product once you build directly against the live codebase with an LLM. The manual effort of maintaining a separate design file also adds friction. Working against the real code keeps design and implementation locked together, and a well-scoped request can turn into working UI in minutes. _Developers weighing design-tool workflows against code-first LLM building can track this debate on daily.dev._ ### what is the Paper tool for turning LLM-generated UI concepts into something editable Paper takes a rough concept built in HTML, JavaScript, and CSS and brings it onto a canvas almost instantly, letting you manipulate the components directly as vectors. This lets you diverge and converge on a design in one motion: point at what's wrong, rearrange pieces from multiple concepts, and feed the result back to the LLM as the next instruction. None of these concepts are meant to ship; they exist to help decide what to build. _Anyone evaluating LLM-to-canvas prototyping tools can follow coverage like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Where Did the LLM Help? 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