AI Won't Make You 10x Faster | Mahta Moattari - Senior Product Designer @Shopify

In this episode, we sit down with Mahta Moattari, Senior Product Designer with experience at Shopify, who still starts every design project with pen and paper — even in the age of AI.Mahta walks us through what it's like going from Shopify's structured design team to a fast-moving startup, and how her process has evolved along the way. We explore how she uses AI tools like Cursor and Claude not for ideation or design thinking, but for communication — articulating ideas, summarizing thoughts, and bridging the gap between messy thinking and clear output. She shares why vibe coding works only after you have something solid in Figma, how design systems make AI-assisted workflows actually viable, and why she believes AI won't make designers 10 times faster.We also get into the creative side — the connection between music and design, lateral thinking, learning by doing, and why the best ideas still come from a pen, a piece of paper, and a quiet room.🔗 Mahta Moattari on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahtamoattari/🔗 Shopify: https://www.shopify.com