Standard
$400 / seat
Full day, all materials, the starter kit, and lunch.
- All three hands-on build blocks
- Data + strategy segments
- Design Starter Kit (Codex skills, templates, checklists)
- Lunch and networking session
Design+Code Workshop — Tokyo
A full-day, hands-on Codex masterclass for senior designers, founders and product people. Learn the reference-to-skill workflow live, in Tokyo, alongside people who ship for a living.
Curated, not open-registration. Priced to filter for people who show up and build.
About the day
Judgment, not just prompts.
THE PROBLEM
Anyone can generate. Few can direct.
Getting an AI tool to produce work with taste, and doing it repeatably, is a different skill from writing a clever prompt once. Most people never get past the first draft.
THE PROMISE
A full day of live correction.
You build real work in Codex while an experienced practitioner critiques it in real time, so the feedback loop that normally takes months of solo trial and error happens in hours.
THE CONTRAST
One day beside a practitioner beats months alone.
You leave with a shipped, published artifact and a reusable method, not a stack of half-finished experiments and a bookmarked thread.
Proof
What the process produces.
A sample of the sites and artifacts built through this exact workflow.
Pricing
One ticket. One day. Everything included.
Early bird
50% OFF FIRST WEEK$350 / seat
Same day, same everything. Locks in before the general sale opens.
- Everything in Standard
- Priority seating
- Window closes ahead of the general sale — date TBA
If a presenting partner joins, pricing may drop further for a limited run of seats, partner-supported, wider access. Details land here once confirmed.
Who's teaching
Meng To builds and teaches for the AI era.
The first time he has taught this workflow in person in Tokyo, with two Japan-based collaborators alongside him.
Founder
Meng To
Founder, Design+Code & Aura.build
25 years in design and two years deep in AI tooling. Has taught at Apple, Figma and PayPal, and built Design+Code to 200,000+ paying users.
177kX
346kYouTube
523kCombined
Manifest
I founded Design+Code after traveling for two years across the globe, teaching designers code and developers design.
In the era of AI, better prompting is only the start. The real edge is persistence, sharper workflows, and staying current while the tools change under your hands.
01
Designers need code intuition. Developers need design taste. Builders need both.
02
Prompting is a craft. Persistence is the multiplier. Workflow is how the work compounds.
03
The new studio is not a room. It is a stack of agents, references, templates, habits, and shipped products.
Also teaching
CL
Corey Lee
Fractional Head of Design, Tokyo
Ex-Figma Designer Advocate, now based in Tokyo. Runs "Methods I" for Offsite Japan and hosts the local network this event draws from. Leads the design-to-business-outcomes segment.
TokyoBased
OffsiteJapan
SG
Sacha Greif
Creator, State of AI / JS / CSS
Kyoto-based. Runs the State of AI 2026 survey and the Sidebar design newsletter. Opens the day with the data on how developers actually use AI right now.
7,258Respondents
KyotoBased
What you'll learn
The reference-to-skill workflow.
Seven steps, taught in order, applied to a real project across the day.
01
Reference
Pull apart a strong example before touching a prompt. What makes it work, structurally and visually.
02
Super Prompt
Turn that analysis into a prompt precise enough that Codex's first pass is usable, not a starting guess.
03
Design System
Lock the tokens, type scale and spacing rules before generation runs away from you.
04
Prototype
Get a working version fast, then judge it against the reference, not against a blank page.
05
Build
Push the prototype into real, shippable code in Codex.
06
Critique
Live review, in the room. Diagnose the weak section and rebuild it before end of day.
07
Reusable Skill
Turn whatever worked into a Codex skill you can call on the next project, not a one-off trick.
What gets examined in a reference
The step most people skip. Here's what step 01 actually covers:
- Story and hierarchy
- Proportion and rhythm
- Typography and spacing
- Colour and components
- Motion and responsive behaviour
- What Codex should preserve
- What Codex should avoid
Outcomes
What you leave with.
01
A responsive product page with a coherent visual direction02
A data section designed around a real question03
A weak section you diagnosed and rebuilt yourself04
A reusable Codex skill built from a method that worked05
A published result, checked on desktop and mobile06
A critique method you can reuse on your own workMasterclass perks
Over $1,000 in tools, credits and support.
The workshop is the start. Every attendee leaves with the tooling and the community to keep building.
Mobbin, Aura, DreamCut
12 months of Mobbin Pro, Aura Build Pro and DreamCut Pro
US$432 VALUE
OpenAI
OpenAI & Codex API credits, plus 1 month of ChatGPT Plus
US$170 VALUE
SQ Collective
One-month Build Community Pass
S$300 VALUE
Notion
Up to 6 months of Notion Business with Notion AI
S$154 VALUE
Design+Code
Meng To's Design Starter Kit
INCLUDED
Alumni
30-day Alumni Build Channel
INCLUDED
Total attendee value
Across 6 partner offers
Partner offers are confirmed per city and may vary for Tokyo.
Who this is for
Built for designers and non-designers.
If you design
You already have the eye. This gives you the workflow to point Codex at a reference and get results that hold up to your own critique, without hand-coding every pixel yourself.
If you don't
You're a founder, PM, or growth lead who needs to ship real interfaces without waiting on a design queue. This gives you the judgment to know when the output is actually good.
Who this is not for
This is not a beginner introduction to AI tools. Come in already comfortable navigating a design or product tool, and ready to build for most of the day.
The day
Full agenda.
9:45 – 10:20State of AI 2026 — data segment with Sacha GreifTalk
10:20 – 11:00Design to business outcomes — strategy segment with Corey LeeTalk
11:10 – 12:30Hands-on 1 — Codex fundamentalsBuild
12:30 – 13:30LunchBreak
13:30 – 15:15Hands-on 2 — build a real projectBuild
15:30 – 16:45Hands-on 3 — ship and polishBuild
17:00 – 17:30NetworkingSocial
Venue & logistics
Where and what to bring.
Location
Tokyo — venue to be announced.
Nearest station
To be announced with the venue.
What to bring
Your own laptop, charger, and a project you'd like to work on. Power available at every seat.
FAQ
Good to know before you register.
What language is this taught in?
To be confirmed. We're deciding between English, Japanese, or a bilingual format and will update this page once it's locked.
What skill level do I need?
Comfortable in a design or product tool already. This is not an introduction to AI tools from zero.
What software do I need installed?
Details ship with your ticket confirmation, ahead of the event date.
What's the refund policy?
Full refund up to a cutoff date before the event, to be published alongside the final date and venue.
Register
40 seats. Curated, not open.
Tickets go live once the date and venue are locked. Join the list to get the first slot.