KONIGI

Think first.
Then prompt.

AI makes building products easy. Designing the right experience still requires product design craft.

Michael Angeles

Hi! I'm Michael. I make things. These are my notes on designing + building with AI.

Recent Writing
June 4, 2026

I built a career coach out of markdown files

A Claude Code-powered second brain that functions as a persistent life and career coach, and tells you what you're avoiding.
May 21, 2026

How to get your site cited by AI: A GEO field guide

AEO and GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) require different signals than traditional SEO. Here's what I actually did to get pairwithclaude.com visible to AI systems and what the limits of that work are.

 May 14, 2026

How to research a company's UX in 30 minutes before your next interview

A repeatable workflow for pulling real UX sentiment about any company's product, turning it into talking points, and walking into the interview as a peer instead of a candidate. Worked example with a real company. Includes a downloadable Claude skill.

 Apr 24, 2026

Claude Design has the incumbents scrambling

Anthropic shipped Claude Design a month after Google's Stitch 2.0. Everyone's watching Figma. The tools that should actually be nervous are Lovable, Bolt, and everything in that lane.

 Apr 17, 2026

Think first, prompt later

Generative coding with AI makes building easy. Building the right thing still takes design thinking. Here's why that matters more, not less, in the age of AI.
Tools I Use
Claude Code

Terminal-first AI pair programmer. My primary building environment.

↗ Expo

A full-stack React Native framework with cloud services for building, deploying, and updating mobile apps across iOS, Android, and web from a single codebase.

↗ Klarita

A design brief and specification builder that walks you through discovery, problem and solution exploration to generate a build-ready spec, step by step.

↗ Motivist

Motivist is a goal tracking and motivation app.

↗ Second Brain

Skills for a personal "second brain" that runs entirely on plain markdown files maintained by Claude Code

↗ UX Sentiment Research

A reusable Claude skill that pulls real UX sentiment about any company's product, identifies friction patterns, and produces interview-ready talking points and questions. Designed for product and design interview prep. Also works for competitive analysis and product critique writing.

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