# YouTube Show Notes: Getting Started with WDS

**Video Link:**  
https://youtu.be/CQ5Aai_r-uo

**Title:**  
Getting Started with Whiteport Design Studio - Your Path to Becoming a Linchpin Designer

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## Description

Standing at a crossroads? Feeling the pressure of AI changing everything about design? You're not alone.

This 15-minute conversation explores the most important choice you'll make as a designer in the AI era: Will you be a factory worker doing predictable outputs, or a linchpin designer who creates strategic value?

You'll discover:
✅ The paradigm shift: Design becomes specification
✅ The four deliverables that transform your work
✅ Why specifications preserve your creative brilliance for eternity
✅ The simple path to get started (about 10 hours to learn)
✅ How AI becomes your creative partner, not your replacement

This isn't about learning new tools. This is about choosing your future as a designer.

**Created by:** Mårten Angner, UX designer and founder of Whiteport (Sweden)
**Framework:** Open-source plugin for BMad Method
**Cost:** Free and open-source

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## Timestamps

0:00 - Introduction: Another Design Methodology?
2:00 - The Designer's Crossroads: Factory Worker or Linchpin?
6:00 - The Four Deliverables: Where Your Brilliance Becomes Immortal
12:00 - The AI Era Reality Check: Why This Matters NOW
14:00 - The Simple Path Forward: How to Begin

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## Key Concepts

🔹 **The Paradigm Shift** - Design becomes specification, code is just the printout

🔹 **Factory Designer Path** - Predictable outputs, competing with AI, replaceable

🔹 **Linchpin Designer Path** - Strategic thinking, walking into chaos and creating order, indispensable

🔹 **Four Deliverables:**

- Project Brief (strategic foundation)
- Trigger Map (user psychology + business impact)
- Scenario Specifications (your thinking captured for eternity)
- Design System Foundation (scaling your decisions)

🔹 **Conceptual Specifications** - Where your creative brilliance becomes immortal

🔹 **AI as Creative Partner** - Not replacement, but collaborator who preserves your genius

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## Resources

🎓 **WDS Course:** Getting Started Guide
https://github.com/bmad-code-org/BMAD-METHOD

🛠️ **Get Started:** Download IDE, Install BMad, Select WDS
https://github.com/bmad-code-org/BMAD-METHOD

💬 **Community:** BMad Discord - Real designers helping each other
[Discord invite link]

📖 **GitHub Discussions:** Ask questions, share your journey
https://github.com/bmad-code-org/BMAD-METHOD/discussions

📚 **Next:** Module 01 - Why WDS Matters (deep dive into linchpin concept)

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## Next Steps

1. Download an IDE (VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.)
2. Install BMad Method
3. Select WDS in the installation
4. Complete Module 01: Why WDS Matters
5. Start creating your four deliverables
6. Join the BMad Discord community

**Time Investment:** About 10 hours to learn the methodology

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## About Whiteport Design Studio (WDS)

WDS is an AI-augmented design methodology created by Mårten Angner, UX designer and founder of Whiteport, a design and development agency from Sweden. WDS is a plugin module for the BMad Method - an open-source AI-augmented development framework.

**The Mission:** Give designers everywhere free access to AI agents specifically tailored for design work, while preserving and amplifying their creative thinking through specifications.

**The Reality:** Traditional design handoffs are breaking down. Designers need a methodology where their thinking can be preserved and amplified through AI implementation, not lost in translation.

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## Tags

#UXDesign #AIDesign #LinchpinDesigner #WhiteportDesignStudio #WDS #BMadMethod #DesignThinking #GettingStarted #DesignSpecification #AIEra #DesignTransformation #CreativeIntegrity #ConceptualSpecifications

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## The Choice

You're standing at the most important moment in design history.

**Factory work** - comfortable, familiar, but AI is getting better every day
**Linchpin work** - strategic, irreplaceable, where your brilliance becomes immortal

The question isn't whether AI will change design - it already has.

The question is: **Which side of the line are you on?**

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**Ready to begin your transformation? Start with Module 01! 🚀**
