INTD 318 · Guides
Method guides
Two documents about working method rather than course content. Read them in order, in week one. Everything else this term assumes the first one is set up.
The guides
Setting up a project for an agentThe directory an agent can pick up cold — and how that same structure carries a venture from the first interview to the showcase without anyone losing the thread.Read first · ~15 min · set up in week 1MCP, and getting Figma into your directoryWhat the protocol actually is, which connections earn their place in twelve weeks, and seven rules for extracting a design file without ending up with two design systems that disagree.Read second · ~15 min · set up before week 6Why these two
You will have somewhere north of forty working sessions with an agent between September and December, and every one of them starts from nothing. The first guide is how you build a project that survives that. The second is how the agent reaches the things that are not files — starting with your design file.
Neither is optional reading. The deliverables from week five onward assume the folder exists and has been kept.
INTD 318 Creating a Design Startup · Emily Carr University of Art + Design
Set in Space Grotesk and Archivo · The Overpunch System