Hey, I'm Chip

Product designer for 12 years. Now I build real things with AI, in public, and write down everything that happened. Including the parts that broke.

Chip smiling, against a dark blue background
Chip on stage presenting the GrabMaps MCP demo, with a map on the screen behind him
Chip talking to camera for the Builder Series on YouTube
Chip with a team around their laptops during a design sprint workshop
Ex-AI design lead at Grab
The short version

Why I teach designers the new way to design

A designer at a laptop, unconvinced by speech bubbles saying AI will 10x your team, make designers redundant and be indistinguishable from the real thing
01 · Pitch

You've already heard it

AI will 10x your team. AI makes designers redundant. AI design is indistinguishable from the real thing.

Most of it doesn't hold up against an actual product, an actual deadline, or a client who needs it done right.

Sketched portrait of Chip with notes: 12 years of designing, a healthcare SaaS sold to Intuit, and AI-powered design at Grab
02 · Who's talking

I've shipped design for 12 years

I co-founded a healthcare SaaS. I was part of the team that sold to Intuit for $80M.

Most recently, I led AI-powered design at Grab, serving over a million drivers across Southeast Asia.

A designer sketching at a desk, with thinking, craft and decisions listed as the parts that need a designer
03 · What I believe

AI won't replace designers. It removes the parts that drain us

The boilerplate. The tedious production work. The "can you make a quick version?" request that eats a whole afternoon.

What's left is the thinking, the craft, and the decisions that actually need a designer.

Three sketches: the actual prompts, the actual builds and the real results
04 · Why this site

AI content is too high-level to act on, or too polished to trust

What's rare is honest documentation. So I do the work in public and show you exactly what happened.

Every tutorial on this site is a real build.

Receipts, not predictions

What's behind the tutorials

12
Years designing products, from startup to super app
$80M
Acquired by Intuit while I was on the product team
1M+
Drivers served by AI-powered design at Grab
8
Tutorials from real builds, prompts and failures included

The process is transparent. The friction is real.

From AI agents replacing Figma to shaders with zero code, each tutorial shows the prompts, the breakage, and the fix that shipped.

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The long version

Why I started Made By Chip

Hey there,

Large design orgs have dedicated AI budgets, specialists, and enough runway to get it wrong a few times. They'll figure this out. But right now, they're slow. Committees to convince. Processes to update. A lot to lose if something doesn't work out.

You don't have that problem. If you're a founder with a small design team, on a Series A/B team where engineering ships faster than design, or at an agency watching AI squeeze your margins, you can try something on Monday and ship it on Thursday.

That's not a limitation. That's your edge.

So once a week I'll show you a real build, with:

  • The actual prompts I used
  • The parts that broke, and why
  • The fix that finally shipped

This is my attempt to make AI-assisted design accessible to everyone building something real. Thanks for being here.

Let's build
Chip Dong LimAI Workflow Specialist & Founder, Made By Chip

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