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AI/UX Playground
A newsletter for designers, PMs and builders who ship AI products. Practical notes on AI UX design: patterns, real products, and craft over hype.
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The reply is not the product
What happens after the model finishes talking
How to Design AI Memory & Personalization UX
Personalization that users cannot inspect is not a feature. It is a trust leak.
How to Design Human-in-the-loop(HITL) for AI Agents
Agents that only answer can hide behind a shrug. Agents that act cannot.
Best AI skills for UX designers
Organized by the jobs (with links you can actually use)
Nobody Is Coming to Teach You. Good.
Why the best learners in the AI era open the tool, build the messy thing, and compound from there.
Top 10 AI Terms Every Designer Should Know
10 glossary terms, related patterns, and deep-dive links so you can spec trust, control, and failure states without getting lost in engineering jargon.
Decision Clarity: The Design Skill Nobody Was Hiring For Last Year
Generation is cheap now. Judgment is the bottleneck.
10 AI Prompts for Design Handoff
When Developers Still Need to Know What You Meant
The Job Title Era Is Ending
Why the next divide isn’t designer vs PM vs engineer—it’s waiters vs builders.
Why I Keep Returning to These Ten Vibe-Coded Projects
A Playground tour of portfolios, experiments, and Framer components that show where product feel actually gets built.
The Rise of the Design Engineer in the Era of AI
Why the most valuable product people of the next decade might sit between design and code
7 AI Prototyping Prompts for UX Designers (From Idea to Clickable Prototype)
Copy-paste prompt snippets plus full templates to help UX designers move from vague product ideas to testable, clickable prototypes faster.
How to Save Tokens in Claude Design Without Killing Creative Quality
A practical playbook for reducing usage, avoiding rework, and getting better design output from every prompt
Top 10 AI Prompts Every Visual Designer Should Save
10 copy-paste prompts for mood boards, polish passes, handoff QA, and stakeholder feedback so you can make faster, sharper visual design decisions with AI
The Week I Realized I Was Learning the Wrong Thing
In a week of endless AI tool launches, I stopped chasing what changes and started investing in what compounds: trust, craft, and the timeless fundamentals of design.
Companies like Ramp are hiring AI-first designers and we built a skill for that
A market signal, decoded: the before-and-after workflow behind “AI-first” job posts
Designing Better AI Chat: A Deep Dive (Part 2 of 2)
Citations, memory, search and pins, export, and the admin layer teams actually need.
Designing Better AI Chat: A Deep Dive (Part 1 of 2)
How to make AI chat interfaces clear, controllable, and trustworthy with proven UX patterns.
The prototype is the deliverable in the AI era
Running code as the shared artifact. Fewer specs, fewer translations, faster alignment with engineering and agents.