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Articles on agentic AI design, growth and product strategy.
Long-form articles for designers, product managers and founders who are building AI products, based on my own practice as a Lead Product Designer.
20 AI design terms every product designer needs to know.
AI design is producing new interaction patterns faster than it is producing names for them. Here are twenty terms to close some of that gap.
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Why some AI feels like a colleague and others feel like a command line.
The difference between AI that feels like thinking alongside something and AI that feels like issuing commands to a system is almost entirely a design decision, and designers are usually not the ones making it.
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How to use AI without losing your ability to think without it.
Cognitive outsourcing is real, and it does not require laziness. Here is how to let AI do the heavy lifting while keeping the reasoning yours.
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Why does AI keep missing what you actually meant?
You write a thorough prompt, the output is competent but not quite right, and you iterate without knowing why. The gap has a name, and closing it takes one sentence.
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Will AI replace product designers? Not the ones companies actually need.
A PM with Claude and a stack of skill-MDs can ship a product. AI can already execute, so the case for designers rests on permutation collapse.
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How to do prototype-first design without shipping AI slop.
AI made prototypes cheap and the design process flipped. Research now wraps around the prototype instead of preceding it. Here’s the method.
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Why your team keeps asking for one more iteration.
AI dropped the cost of generating design variants below the cost of choosing among them. The team’s stopping rule broke. Here’s how to close the loop.
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How to stay current with AI tools when everything ships before you can learn the last thing.
Claude Design dropped five days into a workflow rebuild and made it almost obsolete. The job is no longer staying current. The job is staying flexible.
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Why your agentic product still feels like a regular app.
You set out to design AI-first and the surface still reads as a CRUD form with a chat box stapled on. The slip has a name. Here is how to spot it and break out of it.
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