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Tommy Geoco

Product designer, founder and host of UX Tools, the design-tools newsletter, annual survey and podcast.

7 things

Shape UpBook Ryan Singer

loved

Ryan Singer, the person who gave us Shape Up (one of my favorite books about building products), is betting on it too.

Issue on designers moving their process into AI tools.

2026-02-10·uxtools.co ↗

GranolaSoftware

lovedsponsored

Granola is an AI notepad and is hands-down my tool of the year.

Sponsored "Together with Granola" slot in a UX Tools issue.

2025-12-04·uxtools.co ↗

The KeeperOther Soleio

loved

Soleio’s The Keeper is my favorite short read of the year

"On Our Radar" links in a year-end UX Tools issue.

2025-12-04·uxtools.co ↗

Figma MCPSoftware Figma

loved

Here's the workflow that's changed everything for me: Design the happy path in Figma.

UX Tools issue on the Figma MCP + Claude Code workflow he uses to build his app Lorelight.

2025-10-09·uxtools.co ↗

Dive ClubPodcast Michael Riddering

liked

Launch one of the highest-signal design podcasts in the game - from scratch

Describing Ridd, host of the Dive Club podcast, in an issue about his tool Inflight.

2025-05-06·uxtools.co ↗

Claude CodeSoftware Anthropic

recommended

After a year of "AI is killing __" noise and thousands of hours testing every new toolchain, this is the only workflow I'm ready to endorse: Figma → Claude Code (Sonnet 4.5)

UX Tools issue on the Figma MCP + Claude Code workflow he uses to build his app Lorelight.

2025-10-09·uxtools.co ↗

InflightSoftware Michael Riddering and Kyle Barber

recommended

Here’s what we’re learning, and why Ridd’s Inflight is onto something meaningful.

Issue on the design-feedback tool Inflight from Ridd (Dive Club), which he says is not sponsored.

2025-05-06·uxtools.co ↗

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The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

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