Virtual: Prompt to Prototype: Build with AI in 60 Minutes

I’m hosting a free event next week exploring how AI is reshaping UX - and what smart product teams are doing about it.

🧠 What we’ll cover:

• Where AI is creating new UX challenges (and opportunities)

• What “good UX” looks like in AI-native products

• How to rethink your workflows, assumptions, and career path

🗓 Wednesday, April 23rd

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If you’re a CTO, PM, or strategist wondering how to stay ahead of the curve — this is for you.

Adding AI to GOV.UK’s Prototype Kit — One Designer’s Bold Test

Dave Haigh, an interaction designer working in UK government services, asked a smart question: How easy is it to integrate AI into the GOV.UK Prototype Kit?

The Kit is used across government teams to prototype accessible services, and Dave wanted to see if he could bring modern AI capabilities into a tool that’s usually focused on speed, simplicity, and standards. Spoiler: he pulled it off — and it’s surprisingly useful.

My take:

• This is exactly the kind of bottom-up innovation that makes public sector tools better

• The fact that a designer could experiment like this shows how far we’ve come with AI dev accessibility

• It’s also a great reminder: AI isn’t just for consumer apps — it can (and should) be tested inside legacy, standards-driven systems

• GOV.UK is often held up as a model of clarity and user-first design — seeing it start to absorb AI capabilities is a big signal

• It also quietly challenges other teams: If they’re doing this in government, what’s your excuse?

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Why AI Won’t Kill Content Quality — It’ll Force It to Get Better

Noah Brier argues that AI won’t flood the internet with low-quality junk — it’ll actually make great content more important than ever. As AI agents become the middle layer between brand and customer, the incentive shifts: not to crank out slop, but to produce authoritative content that LLMs respect and reference.

My take:

• This flips the panic: the risk isn’t content collapse, it’s being invisible to the models

• Brands won’t just write for people — they’ll write for GPT, Claude, and their retrieval pipelines

• AI behaves like a rational consumer — it indexes quality, structure, and clarity over emotional appeal

• “Content for humans” and “content for AI” will split — smart teams will learn to do both

• There’s a land grab happening now: become a trusted node in the model’s world view

If you’re not creating content that AI can find, understand, and trust, you’re building for an audience that no longer controls the buying journey.

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From Idea to App in Under an Hour — The Lovable Approach

In a recent office hours session, the Lovable team set themselves a challenge: build a fully functional, AI-powered Spanish tutor app in under an hour.

They didn’t just talk theory — they built it live. Using Supabase for backend and auth, React for the front-end, and AI for the experience layer, they showed just how accessible building real AI apps has become.

This was the kickoff to their Zero to Launch series, and honestly, it’s one of the most practical demos I’ve seen in a while.

My take:

• AI dev isn’t just faster now — it’s approachable for designers, PMs, and non-devs too

• This kind of demo shows how much scaffolding is now abstracted — and how product folks can prototype smarter

• Supabase + AI + React = the new MVP stack for builders

• Even if you’re not building an AI tutor, the thinking and flow here is reusable

• This is the skill stack that separates thinkers from tinkerers in the AI space

AI without thoughtful design is just capability waiting to be ignored. The teams that will win aren’t the ones with the best model. They’re the ones who make that model feel seamless to use and give real value.

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Designer Founders, It’s Time to Build Again

Ben Blumenrose from Designer Fund makes a compelling case: we’re entering another historic moment for designer-led startups. This time though, it’s AI that’s creating the opportunity.

As the foundational tech in AI starts to level off, product experience and design will become the key differentiators. This moment mirrors what we saw with mobile and SaaS. So why aren’t more designers stepping up to lead?

My take:

• This is exactly the kind of inflection point where design becomes strategy

• If AI levels the playing field technically, design becomes the moat

• The excuses (“I’m not a business person,” “I don’t know sales”) are solvable — not structural

• We don’t need every designer to be a founder — but the best ones could be

• It’s not just a moment for designers — it’s a moment for investors, platforms, and operators to spot and back them

We don’t have a pipeline problem — we have a permission problem. If you’re a designer who’s even considering building, now’s the time to stop asking and start doing.

Checkout Design Founders and sign up to their newsletter. It’s going to be great.

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Designing for AI Agents: Microsoft’s UX Playbook for the Next Interface Shift

Microsoft just released a set of principles for designing agentic experiences — UX guidelines for AI systems that don’t just respond, but reason, adapt, and act. These aren’t your typical chatbot flows. These are deeply integrated systems that need to earn trust, operate across time, and disappear when needed. This piece is essential reading if you’re building anything with AI that goes beyond a prompt bar.

The framework spans:

• Space (how agents connect to people, platforms, and context)

• Time (how they learn from the past, act in the present, and adapt over time)

• Core (how trust, control, and transparency shape every interaction)

My take:

• This is the clearest blueprint I’ve seen yet for designing AI agents as products, not just features

• UX now has to account for memory, multimodal inputs, and invisibility — this is a new design paradigm

• “Nudging more than notifying” is chef’s kiss - great agents don’t just ping, they participate

• Transparency isn’t optional - users will need to trust that agents act on their behalf, not behind their backs

• Most importantly: this pushes design teams to stop thinking in screens, and start thinking in systems over time

Agent UX is the new frontier — and these principles will age well. If you’re designing for chat, voice, multimodal or behind-the-scenes automation, this is your next UX toolkit.

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