Tingyu Su on why AI startups should treat the founding designer as a strategic hire from the start of company building
THE SO WHAT
When AI can generate working software quickly, the bottleneck shifts to product framing, interaction design, and trust — which is why a founding designer becomes a leverage hire, not decoration. If you’re starting an AI company, lock in design leadership as early as you lock in your founding engineer.
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