Tom Johnson - The most insane portfolio of 2026
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Tom Johnson - The most insane portfolio of 2026

This week's episode is with Tom Johnson (https://x.com/tomjohndesign) (staff designer at Vercel) who just released one of the coolest personal sites (https://www.tomjohn.design/) I've ever seen.

So he's going to give us a behind the scenes of his portfolio journey that led him to create a fully simulated world generator for his camper travels. It might be the most robust set of tooling I’ve ever seen a designer create on this show. And that sparks a lot of questions about what it really means to be a designer these days.

Some highlights:

- How Tom’s workflow has evolved as a builder

- How Tom accidentally turned his portfolio into a game

- Why Tom built a skill to show his prompts in case studies

- How experimenting with 3D unlocked new possibilities as a designer

- + a lot more

- Tom's portfolio (https://www.tomjohn.design/)

- White Knuckle case study (https://www.tomjohn.design/content/whiteknuckle)

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Chapters

0:00 Intro

4:28 How it started: case study

9:13 What the models were good (and bad) at

16:03 How working in 3D levels Tom up as a designer

17:08 White Knuckle

20:11 How Tom build White Knuckle

25:16 How this is shaping his ientity as a designer

26:10 Lost breadcrumbs / Gretel

26:54 Adding prompts to your case studies

30:41 Building a custom video tool for shorts

33:14 Noticing what's wrong

36:09 How our design workflows are changing

43:32 Identity when AI makes

50:02 Prompts in public

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