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Welcome to „The Future of UX“ - the podcast about the future of UX Design, where we explore how emerging technologies like AI, AR, VR, and the metaverse will impact user experience design. Join Patricia Reiners as they sit down with experts and thought leaders from the world of tech and design to discuss the latest trends, insights, and best practices in the field of UX. From the ethics of AI to the future of user interfaces, we'll dive deep into the topics that matter most to UX designers, developers, and entrepreneurs. Whether you're just starting out
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AI for Designers: 5-week Bootcamp 💻 opening September Sep 28→ Sign up for the waiting list One UX designer, one fast team that stopped inviting him, and one escalation that made everything worse. In part two of UX Has an Identity Crisis, I share a story from a current client project and what it tells us about the rebuild. Why he lost, and why it has almost nothing to do with how good he is. The three roles UX is splitting into right now, and the one I would bet my career on. What I would do in his place from Monday, including how to bring real user evidence into a room with no research budget. And where I think this profession lands in the next two years.👉 0€ Training: Build your first Claude Skill in 10 min 👈→ Build your first Claude skill in 10 min 💌 Newsletter → Free Weekly UX insights and updates: UX Newsletter Follow the Future of UX:🎨 Linkedin: Future of UX Podcast📸 Instagram: Future of UX Podcast🍏 Apple Podcast: Future of UX💚 Spotify: Future of UX Find Patricia on Socials📸 Instagram @ux.patricia🎨 Linkedin Patricia Reiners🐦 Twitter @ux_Patricia📝 My UX Design Blog 🎥 Youtube
UX as a profession is undergoing an identity crisis, not because AI has replaced designers, but because the job quietly shifted from user-centered design to interface production long before machines could do it faster. The real issue is that core practices like research and judgment were de-prioritized, leaving the field unprepared for a world where speed is no longer a human advantage.
The transformation of design roles by AI is not a future possibility—it has already occurred, with half of all designers shipping AI-generated code to production. The core shift is not technological but structural: the boundaries between design, product, and engineering are dissolving, and the value of designers is increasingly defined by judgment, taste, and decision-making rather than artifact creation.
This episode offers a behind-the-scenes look at how designer Patricia Reiners built an AI workforce using Cloud and Cloud Cowork to automate repetitive tasks in her business, structured like a company with departments and agents. The real breakthrough isn’t better prompting—it’s capturing her corrections, voice, rules, and facts in plain text files that form a living memory system.
Domingo Widen, staff designer at FIN (formerly Intercom), shares how his team has radically transformed design and prototyping by integrating AI into their front-end infrastructure. Designers now prototype directly in code using a custom playground and AI-powered tools, blurring traditional role boundaries and enabling faster, more realistic iteration.
Patricia, a UX designer and AI consultant, shares a behind-the-scenes look at how working just 24 hours a week has sharpened her business, led to new private company cohorts, and revealed that constraints often improve quality. She also discusses three major shifts in how AI is reshaping design work: Cloud Code evolving beyond coding, documentation becoming critical infrastructure, and the move from AI copilots to autonomous agents.
We are back next week! 😍AI for Designers: 5-week Bootcamp 💻 opening September→ Sign up for the waiting list 👉 0€ Training: Build your first Claude Skill in 10 min 👈→ Build your first Claude skill in 10 min 💌 Newsletter → Free Weekly UX insights and updates: UX Newsletter Follow the Future of UX:🎨 Linkedin: Future of UX Podcast📸 Instagram: Future of UX Podcast🍏 Apple Podcast: Future of UX💚 Spotify: Future of UX Find Patricia on Socials📸 Instagram @ux.patricia🎨 Linkedin Patricia Reiners🐦 Twitter @ux_Patricia📝 My UX Design Blog 🎥 Youtube
A designer with 20+ years of experience sits in front of twelve competent, AI-generated screens... and can't evaluate a single one. Not because they're bad. Because something is missing. And the same thing happened to me.In this episode, I investigate this case like a detective story: What was taken from us? Who took it? The answer turned out to be the most hopeful thing I've learned about design in years, disguised as a crisis. Because the comps were never the design. The comps are the artifact. The design is the model in your head, and no tool can generate it.In this episode:The mystery: why the most trained design judgment goes offline in front of good AI output (and why "AI output is slop" is the wrong explanation)The three suspects: the AI, the speed, and the surprising real culpritWhy "the back-and-forth builds the model": the experiment that proves your value was never in the pixelsThe cold case behind it all: how we spent 20 years selling the first three rounds, and why that gap just closed foreverThe stakes ladder: what happens when a designer, a team, or a whole organization over-trusts AI outputTaste redefined: deciding, not decorating, and why having no opinion defaults to the averageThe open question: if artifacts are cheap, is the "living transcript" the design deliverable of the future?Your homework: five questions before pixelsResources mentioned:Christopher Noessel "Design Was Never the Comps: What I learned when Claude Design dumped a dozen screens on me"https://christophernoessel.medium.com/design-was-never-the-comps-what-i-learned-when-claude-design-dumped-a-dozen-screens-on-me-73893af464aeChristopher Noessel "RationaleBot: Why design's near-future deliverable is a living transcript"https://christophernoessel.medium.com/rationalebot-why-designs-near-future-deliverable-is-a-living-transcript-c70613215359Christopher Noessel — "Get Claude Design to present like a consultant" (follow-up with the practical prompt)https://christophernoessel.medium.com/get-claude-design-to-present-like-a-consultant-6bf22261717fRoger Wong "A Sunday Afternoon with Claude Design" (the squiggly line, Picasso's nine Guernica studies)https://rogerwong.me/2026/04/sunday-afternoon-claude-designAnthony Wood (House of gAi) "Claude Design Came for the First Three Rounds. Not the Designers."https://medium.com/@ant_95138/claude-design-for-designers-what-anthropics-new-ai-tool-means-for-the-craft-f1e5378fcb50Michal Malewicz — the Slopless manifestohttps://slopless.design/
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Welcome to „The Future of UX“ - the podcast about the future of UX Design, where we explore how emerging technologies like AI, AR, VR, and the metaverse will impact user experience design. Join Patricia Reiners as they sit down with experts and thought leaders from the world of tech and design to discuss the latest trends, insights, and best practices in the field of UX. From the ethics of AI to the future of user interfaces, we'll dive deep into the topics that matter most to UX designers, developers, and entrepreneurs. Whether you're just starting out
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