Designers Open the PRs Now
6 months. 432 pull requests. One design team. What got better, and what it cost us. Recently, one of our designers was exploring a lucky-draw concept in the ad participation flow.…
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Maxence Mauduit
Product Designer - CDO
I am a product person and Buzzvil's CDO!
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A Design System for an Agent
As a Frenchman, I love spending time in the kitchen, cooking things for the fam. As a designer, I love crafting delightful interactions. So in the first half of 2026, I spent a cra…
An Operating Manual Written by the Agent: Five Layers of Harness for AI Coding Agents
Editor’s note. The narrator of this article is not a person. It is Claude Code itself, the AI coding agent that works in Buzzvil’s web monorepo every day. Maxence, who regularly wo…
The AI-Native Design Playbook
Over the past month, Buzzvil’s design team shipped five web applications and made 344 commits. Remarkably, Figma was barely involved. There were no engineering sprint allocations,…
Nobody Owned the Website. Now Everybody Does.
Who owns your company website? It sounds like a simple question. But at most companies, the honest answer is somewhere between "marketing, sort of" and "nobody, really." The people…
The Flip
There's this assumption floating around that AI is going to generate design systems for us. That one day you'll prompt something, and out comes your tokens, your components, your i…
The 2026 Buzzvil Design Stack, Preparing for the AI Shift
2026 marks a transition year for Buzzvil Design. Our tool choices are no longer just operational decisions, they are strategic steps toward a unified, code-connected design system…
Now is a good time to multiply your Design team capacity
This article's timing is partly due to the major layoff happening worldwide. IT Companies have been building empires. Empires are, by their structure, as fragile as they are big. S…
What AI Art can tell us about the future of Design and how it can affect Ad creative optimization
(Artwork generated by Dalle2 with the following prompt: A cyberpunk Designer looking at multiple screens with a robotic arm with neon lights in a dark, smoky room) I recently spent…
All the mistakes we have made during Product Discovery
6 months ago we started a new team with a new mission and big dreams. We secured resources to give the mission a proper chance to go through Product discovery, a luxury in a fast p…
Max’s story: From Design to Product leadership
Yesterday, or to be exact, 8 years ago, I was joining Buzzvil as a product designer. In late 2014 Buzzvil counted a little more than 20 members and the design team was only 3 membe…
Design system at Buzzvil
Design system vs startup. Takeaways. We built a Design system. It took us time, resources and a lot of energy, involving pretty much everyone in our design team. And it’s just the…