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AI Product Design

How AI actually changes the product design process, from concepts and UX patterns to shipping AI-generated UI.

Design Systems

Building and scaling design systems in practice: from-scratch decisions, icon systems, and what real ownership looks like.

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Product Design Practice

The research, process, and career judgment behind senior product design work, independent of any specific tool.

7 articles

18 posts

UX5-part seriesFeatured

Product Design Concepts Explained

Generative research, evaluative testing, JTBD, and affinity mapping — explained through the real decisions they changed, not textbook definitions.

July 3, 202610 min readStart with Part 1

From Traditional to AI-Native Product Design: How I Rebuilt My Design Process Around AI Context

The real change AI brought wasn't faster screens. It was a persistent AI context that carries the product, design system, and past decisions.

Aug 25, 202612 min read

Career

The Designer Career Paths Winning (and Losing) the 2026 Job Market

Junior portfolios get hundreds of applicants. AI ate the production work. Here's why some designers are thriving anyway, and what each path needs to do next.

Aug 21, 202611 min read

Agent UX

The AI Agent Glossary Every Designer Needs in 2026

Agent, orchestration, grounding, guardrails — agentic AI vocabulary is spreading through product meetings. Here's what each term means for design work.

Aug 18, 20268 min read

Agent UX

What Is Agent UX? A Framework for Where AI Is Reshaping Product Design

UX isn't being replaced by AI. It's growing a third layer: Agent UX. A working model for what each layer covers, and why it catches most teams unprepared.

Aug 12, 202610 min read

Where AI Actually Fits in the Product Design Process

A phase-by-phase look at where AI genuinely speeds up product design inside the Double Diamond, and where human judgment still has to lead.

Aug 10, 20269 min read

Beyond the Chatbot: The AI UX Design Patterns That Actually Work

Most AI features are a sparkle icon nobody uses. The ones that change behavior follow different patterns — pre-fill, visible confidence, graceful failure.

Aug 10, 20268 min read

Scaling Product Design With AI and Just Enough Technical Skills

Too much to build, not enough dev bandwidth. Here's the five-part system — AI tools plus just enough technical skill — I use to close that gap myself.

Aug 10, 20267 min read

The New Handoff: From AI-Generated UI to Production-Ready UI

AI shortened the path from idea to interface, but the design-to-dev handoff didn't disappear — it moved downstream, into code review.

Jul 10, 20265 min read

Forget AI Tools. Master These 7 AI Concepts Instead

Tool debates burn out fast. The mental models underneath don't — the concepts that separate designers who work well with AI from those who just use it.

Jul 7, 20269 min read

9 Simple UX Fixes That Boost Conversion

No redesign needed. Nine small UX changes — permission timing, inline errors, shorter signup — that quietly cost you signups until fixed.

Jul 7, 20268 min read

Design Systems

Icons Are the Most Underestimated Part of Your Design System

Choosing an icon style isn't aesthetic — it's a commitment to a visual language that has to hold up at 20 icons or 2,000, across every product you ship.

Jul 3, 20267 min read

Career

What 'Senior' Actually Means in Product Design

The title says senior. The job description hasn't caught up. Here's what actually changes — in output, judgment, and mentoring — after fifteen years.

Sep 10, 20247 min read

Design Systems

What I Learned Building a Design System From Scratch

Lessons from building three design systems from scratch — healthcare, eCommerce, SaaS: start with tokens, ship incomplete, decide governance early.

Mar 15, 20249 min read