Alejandro
Bauer
Senior Product Designer
Linz, Austria — Tractive
+15 years of UX refinement and nudging pixels UI exploration. Currently focused on AI-optimized design systems and token efficiency.
ARTICLES
Thoughts on Product design
The 6-Layer Constraint Framework for AI-Native Design Systems
An architectural deep-dive into how structural constraints evolve when LLMs become the primary consumers of UI codebases.
AI-Native Design, Explained as a Restaurant
A conceptual metaphor for the shift from deterministic UI menus to generative, intent-based service models.
Building an AI-Native Design System: Token-Efficient, Claude-Ready
A hands-on walkthrough of building a complete design system with Claude Code and Figma Console MCP, optimized for agent consumption.
CASE STUDIES
From concept to shipped product decisions
Great design needs context.
Most of what I've built lives behind real products, not portfolio pages. Context is everything in design. The constraints, the decisions, what got cut and why. Schedule a call and I'll walk you through it.
RESOURCES
Experiments and utilities I’ve built
AI Agent Audit — Figma Plugin
A diagnostic tool designed to evaluate how accurately LLM agents interpret and execute design systems from raw codebases.
AI Agent Audit — Skill
Coming soon.