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  • Agent Users, New Design Team Structures, Team Dynamics, AI Chat Problems, Constraints Not Prompts
    2026/05/05

    Dan and Nik talk about how to design for your next user being an agent, the impact of AI on team structure and dynamics, the challenge of memory and recall in conversation-based AI systems, and the shift towards AI experience design focused on constraints, not prompts.

    Chapters

    • 00:00 Your Next User is an Agent
    • 12:23 Rethinking the Shape of Design Teams in AI World
    • 17:03 The Impact of AI Efficiency on Team Interactions
    • 24:39 The Forgotten Conversation Problem in AI
    • 31:14 The End of Prompting: AI Experience Design with Constraints

    LINKS
    Your product has a new user. It’s not human.
    https://www.elenaverna.com/p/your-product-has-a-new-user-its-not

    Rethinking the shape of design teams in an AI world
    https://uxdesign.cc/rethinking-the-shape-of-design-teams-in-an-ai-world-82f986bf9a27

    The “Bug-Free” Workforce: How AI Efficiency Is Subtly Disrupting The Interactions That Build Strong Teams

    https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2026/04/bug-free-workforce-ai-disrupting-teams/

    The forgotten conversation problem in AI chat

    https://uxdesign.cc/the-forgotten-conversation-problem-in-ai-chat-4d3d0c3ea525

    The End of Prompting: Why the Future of AI Experience Design Is Constraint-First

    https://uxmag.com/articles/the-end-of-prompting-why-the-future-of-ai-experience-design-is-constraint-first

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    42 分
  • Deep Dive: AI Skills (with Google's MC Dean)
    2026/04/28

    Google's MC Dean, the author of over 100 AI skills for designers on everything from accessibility to moods, joins Nik and Dan to talk about Skills: how to make them, how to use them, and what the future of them could be.

    LINKS

    MC Dean on Substack
    https://marieclairedean.substack.com/

    MC Dean on Github
    https://github.com/owl-listener

    Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman book
    https://amzn.to/4sYGQek

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    48 分
  • Claude Design, Innovative AI and Design Research from CHI 2026
    2026/04/21

    Surprise surprise, Dan and Nik talk about Anthropic's launch of Claude Design. The Nik does a set of rapid-fire interviews from the 2026 CHI conference, featuring the latest HCI research in AI and Design.

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    56 分
  • Insights from Anthropic's Head of Design, Why AI UX Sucks, AI Aesthetics, Human-Centered Design 2.0
    2026/04/14

    Dan checks out a Fast Company interview with Anthropic's Head of Design Joel Lewenstein and finds reasons for hope. Dmitry Kargaev points out the flaws of AI UX and has some reasons for why is happens. A catalog of AI brand archetypes, and Dan applauds Patrizia Bertini's call to rethink Human-Centered Design to be less about "users" and more about "citizens."

    Links:

    Fast Company Interview with Joel Lewenstein

    https://www.fastcompany.com/91519289/inside-anthropics-biggest-design-choices

    AI Products Have Terrible UX: Here's Why

    https://hackernoon.com/ai-products-have-terrible-ux-heres-why

    Aesthetics of AI

    https://www.acolorbright.com/en/insights/aesthetics-of-ai

    Human-Centred Design has grown up. It’s time we did too

    https://uxdesign.cc/human-centred-design-has-grown-up-it-is-time-we-did-too-766601c1fc7d

    We're All Doing The Same Job Now

    https://odannyboy.medium.com/were-all-doing-the-same-job-now-81924e0c80d6

    The Existential Designer

    https://odannyboy.medium.com/the-existential-designer-facilitating-meaning-through-interaction-8952c358ec52

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    30 分
  • Deep Dive: The Future of Design Practice and Process (with author Mike Kuniavsky)
    2026/04/07

    Dan, Nik, and special guest Mike Kuniavsky ("Observing the User Experience") do a deep dive into the impact of AI on the traditional design practice and process. They get into the disappearing/evolving role of design artifacts, the influence of AI on design literacy, and the reevaluation of the design process in the age of AI. AI has triggered the democratization of design tools, a shift in organizational power dynamics, and ofttimes the complete disregard for of unknown unknowns. They also explore the changing product risk surface, the redefinition of scale in design practice, and the role of synthetic users in user-centered design.


    LINKS:

    Mike's article "Design practice assumes a world that no longer exists: what’s next?" https://medium.com/@mikekuniavsky/design-practice-assumes-a-world-that-no-longer-exists-whats-next-ca3f588ad4d8

    Other recent articles on Design Process:

    https://www.nngroup.com/articles/design-process-isnt-dead/

    https://www.nngroup.com/articles/design-process-isnt-dead/

    https://medium.com/@kristian.bjornhaug/the-design-process-isnt-dead-but-ai-is-changing-where-design-happens-220dce1b3acd

    https://medium.com/design-bootcamp/the-new-design-process-2-6-2b5967507263

    https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/design-process-isnt-dead-its-only-thing-save-us-rick-starbuck-7pbmc/


    “Cognitive surrender” leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/research-finds-ai-users-scarily-willing-to-surrender-their-cognition-to-llms/

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    54 分
  • Claude Computer Use, Product Intuition, Author Chris Noessel ("Designing Assistant Technology")
    2026/03/31

    Dan and Nik talk about Anthropic's latest announcement about computer use and its impact on how designers design screens. Then they discuss the article "AI didn't kill product intuition. It exposed who never had it." Author Chris Noessel stops by to talk about his new book Designing Assistant Technology and the challenges and considerations in designing AI to assist users. The conversation touches on the risks of descaling and over-reliance, and cthe importance of keeping cognitive engagement in AI design.

    https://amzn.to/414zOta
    https://www.productparty.us/p/ai-didnt-kill-product-intuition-it

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    42 分
  • Google Stitch, 2026 Design in Tech Report, Downloadable Design Skills
    2026/03/25

    Dan and Nik offer opinions on Google Stitch, a new design tool that just dropped from Google Labs. They also dig deep into John Maeda's 2026 Design in Tech report, debating his key insights for designers in the evolving landscape of AI and design. Lastly, a discussion on the codification, sharing and future of downloadable design skills.

    Google Stitch: https://stitch.withgoogle.com/
    Design in Tech 2026: https://designintech.report/
    MC Dean's Skills: https://substack.com/@marieclairedean/p-190232071 and https://substack.com/@marieclairedean/p-190956350

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    52 分
  • AI Image Editors, Institutional v Individual AI, Author Louise MacFadyen ("Designing AI Interfaces")
    2026/03/17

    Nik and Dan talk about new AI image editing tools from Canva and Adobe and the value of baking AI right into existing tools. The conversation switches to a provocative new essay by George Sivulka on the importance of Institutional AI and not just Individual AI, which can be chaotic if it's not coordinated.

    https://x.com/gsivulka/status/2031797989908627849

    Lastly, Dan interviews Louise Macfadyn, author of the upcoming book Designing AI Interfaces.

    https://amzn.to/4lAf9qi

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    54 分