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48. AI Trap: Hard Truths About the Job Market
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
2025 is almost over, and it’s time to stop pretending everything is fine.If you work in design, writing, product, research, or agencies, you’ve fe...
47. The Future of Human–AI Creativity [Dr. Maya Ackerman]
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI is threatening creativity, but that's because we're giving too much control to the machine to think on our behalf.In this episode, Dr. Maya...
46. The AI Commercialization Playbook: Stop Selling Tech, Start Delivering Value [Jessica Randazza Pade, Neurable]
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The hardest part of building an AI product isn’t the model, it’s the market.Jessica Randazza Pade, one of today’s leading experts in AI commerci...
45. Agentics: Rebuilding How We Think, Work, and Create with AI [Kwame Nyanning, Author of Agentic]
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The next revolution in AI isn’t another tool, it’s a reconstruction of how organizations think, act, and create meaning. Strategist and designer K...
44. AI Won’t Save Your Product—Discovery Will [Teresa Torres - Product Talk]
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Product teams are moving fast on AI—but speed without discovery is a trap. Teresa Torres—author of Continuous Discovery Habits and one of the most...
43. Play Unlocks the Next Billion‑Dollar AI Market [Michelle Lee, IDEO]
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Product teams and founders are under pressure, stuck in incremental roadmaps and burning out on short‑term wins. Michelle Lee—Partner & Execut...
42. HubSpot’s Head of AI on How AI Rewrites Customer Acquisition & Marketing
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Product and growth teams are under pressure: reps spend most of their time not selling, marketers juggle every stage of the funnel at once, and new pr...
41. Vibe Coding Will Disrupt Product — Base44’s Path to $80M Within 6 Months
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It took 30 years to build and design an easy-to-use internet. But it took Vibe Coding one year to challenge the foundations of the internet. We’re e...
40. Secrets to Successful Agents: Atlassian’s Strategy for Success
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There’s no denying that AI agents will transform work, but there’s no roadmap for how to design successful agents. Jamil Valliani, Atlassian’s V...
39. The Intelligence Layer That Unlocks Your Business' Biggest Problems [Jochem van der Veer, TheyDo]
11 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Your biggest business problems are hiding in plain sight—scattered across customer service calls, survey responses, app store reviews, and sales con...
38. Co-Designing the Future of AI Products [Savannah Kunovsky, IDEO]
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Product teams are under pressure to deliver value from AI immediately and most are failing to achieve monetization. But when large enterprises want to...
37. Emotional AI will Transform Sales, Support & Training [Paula Petcu, Interhuman AI]
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if AI had emotional intelligence? What if it could interpret our non-verbal cues? Try to use a chat bot and all of this sounds far-fetched right ...
36. Apple's Intelligence Shocks AI and How to Harness Power of Deep Research
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean when the largest consumer tech company in the world says AI isn't so intelligent after all? Over the last week Apple has dominat...
35. How AI Expands Creativity & Innovates Design [Tuhin Kumar, Luma, ex Apple Airbnb, Facebook]
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There’s no doubt, AI will be able to automate product, marketing, and sales workflows. But GenAI’s greatest achievement could be expanding our cre...
34. Bullshit Mountain: Unmasking AI's Empty Promises w/ The AI Con authors Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We have two special guests. Dr. Emily M. Bender & Dr. Alex Hanna, the authors of The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future ...
33. Rating AI Design to Code Products + Hacks for ChatGPT & Claude [Roger Wong]
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Designers are overwhelmed with too many AI products that promise to help them simplify workflows and solve the last mile of design-to-code. With the a...
32. Overreliance on AI is a Problem that only Expertise can Solve [Brittany Hobbs & Arpy Dragffy]
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Employers and the media are pressuring us to adopt AI quickly. But overreliance on large language models poses huge risks. Not only is GenAI highly li...
31. AI is Disrupting Architecture and Lessons for Digital Product Teams [Matthew Krissel]
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI is changing how we design and the types of products we build. It’s still unclear exactly what the future of design looks like, but architecture ...
30. Take Control of AI’s Predictive Power [Tyler Hochman, FORE]
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What seemed unimaginable a few years ago is now possible because AI is becoming cheaper and more accessible to any entrepreneur. Unlocking your data &...
29. Trust is a Double-edged Sword: AI will Transform Services [Sarah Gold]
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Which products and services should we trust? How can brands earn our trust? As we enter the AI agentic era, we’re going to be faced with increasing ...
28. AI will Transform Product Research [John Whalen, Author of Design for How People Think]
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI may replace many of our jobs. UX Research is one of the roles most at risk because the technology is increasingly automating many of the tasks.. Jo...
27. Implementing AI in Creative Teams: Why Adoption Will Surge [Jan Emmanuele, Superside]
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How are the world’s largest brands leveraging AI? Where are they getting the greatest ROI? What are the biggest fears and barriers to adopting AI at...
26. Designing a New Relationship with AI: Critical Mindset Shifts for Success [Sara Vienna, Metalab]
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What we design and how we design are changing because of AI. It’s happening faster than anyone could imagine. Our guest Sara Vienna has been designi...
25. Faster, Cheaper, Better: AI’s Transformation of Insights & Strategy [David Boyle, author of PROMPT]
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Every product, design, and business decision we make is powered by insights. Will AI help all of us to make better strategic decisions? For two decade...
24. Adding AI to Miro: Case Study in Improving the UX of Existing Products [Ioana Teleanu]
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We’re two years into the GenAI era and there’s still plenty of uncertainty about how to best leverage AI to improve existing products. Ioana Telea...
23. AI in Healthcare: Challenges of Implementing in Complex Industries [Spencer Dorn, UNC, Forbes]
03 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Healthcare is crucial. Yet healthcare systems in North America are falling behind. That’s why healthcare is constantly highlighted as the industry t...
22. Author of AI Value Playbook: Strategies & Lessons from Corporate Leaders [Lisa Weaver-Lambert]
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After our recent episodes about how AI will change design, we thought it was time to hear about how AI is changing business. Our guest is Lisa Weaver-...
21. Redefining Design: Peter Merholz on AI and Organizational Change for Product Teams
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After our last episode where Phillip Maggs outlined a vision for automating design production work, we asked ourselves,How might design organizations ...
20. Future of Design: Leveraging Design Systems & Brand to Automate Workflows [Phillip Maggs, Superside]
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What’s the future of design? After seeing creative technologist, Phillip Maggs, present at Figma’s Config conference, we had to interview him. We’...
19. Authors of Sentient design: AI-powered self-aware experiences [Josh Clark & Veronika Kindred]
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sentient Design is the already-happening future of intelligent interfaces. Josh Clark & Veronika Kindred are here to discuss their upcoming book &...
18. Immersive GenAI experiences: Video games' KPIs & path to joy (PlayStation's Kristie J. Fisher)
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We’re exploring the intersection of video games, emerging technologies, and product team KPIs with Kristie J. Fisher, PhD, the Sr. Director of Globa...
17. Spotify’s former data alchemist: Evaluating when & how to use GenAI [Glenn McDonald]
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 17. Our guest is Glenn MacDonald who was Spotify’s Data Alchemist, building it into an algorithmic powerhouse. We’re critically evaluating...
16. Service design of AI: Designing the first Copilot w/ Microsoft & OpenAI [Yasemin Cenberoglu]
04 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest is Yasemin Cenberoglu, who was the first designer to work on Microsoft’s Copilot, all in secret, before the world was exposed to ChatGPT f...
15. Futures design: Build AI products that customers want & find valuable use cases [Arpy Dragffy - PH1]
07 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Product teams are struggling to find the use cases which deliver the most value to customers and where the technology can be effective. And teams that...
14. Researching & building responsible AI within tech’s biggest platforms [Jess Holbrook, Head of UX
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What is the path to building responsible AI products? We have a special guest: Jess Holbrook, the Head of UX Research for Microsoft AI. We discuss: ‣...
13. Unlocking AI product success: Coaching teams to navigate uncertainty & design risks [Scott Jenso
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
AI is changing the role of the designer and shifting how product teams succeed. We have a special guest: Scott Jenson, formerly from Apple, Google, an...
12. Content design: How creatives are leveraging prompt engineering to innovate ecommerce platforms
19 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This conversation is a deep case study into what the capabilities of the technology are today and how product teams must leverage both creative expert...
11. Innovation lessons for brands and product teams investing into AI [Design of AI podcast]
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Why are brands investing into AI? How can they succeed? What can we learn from how experts in the field of innovation lead transformation projects? Wh...
10. AI is disrupting the design & product delivery process [Lessons for startups, enterprise & UX]
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Building products with GenAI brings powerful new capabilities but also a whole new set of uncertainties. Teams can't rely on best practices because th...
9. AI can innovate behavior change strategies & transform personalization [Amy Bucher Ph.D]
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tech has been promising personalized experiences for a decade. Now GenAI can finally deliver on that. Amy Bucher Ph.D joins us to discuss how she leve...
8. Case studies: Leveraging AI to build conversational bots & analyze conversations [Design of AI po
21 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How can AI make our workflows and products more effective? It’s a question every product team is asking itself as they decide to invest into develop...
7. The secrets to researching potential emerging tech products
14 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Building products using emerging technologies is more difficult. As we’re seeing with building AI products today, teams are often chasing which use ...
6. Venture building: Why AI products may fail w/ Ben Yoskovitz
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There are so many new GenAI products coming to market that it is hard to believe even a fraction of them will become sustainable businesses. Ben Yosko...
5. GenAI's copyright problem: Training & derivative copies
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
AI has the potential to be a transformational technology. But how is it trained and how can you track authenticity? Virginie Berger, Chief Business De...
4. How AI is reshaping UX and the new role for designers
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Emily Campbell joins us to discuss the future of UX. Her Shape of AI newsletter and community have become the go-to resource for AI product design pat...
3. The future of music in the era of generative AI
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Maarten Walraven-Freeling, co-editor of MUSIC x and the co-CEO of Symphony Media joins the Design of AI podcast to discuss how AI will impact the musi...
2. How AI is changing ad agencies & the creative process
03 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ad agencies have always had to be ahead of their curve. They need to predict what clients need tomorrow. But AI has the potential to change everything...
1. Designing AI products: Building effective products with LLMs
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Van Dijck, Founding Partner of AI agency Simply Put joins us to discuss how his team designs and builds AI products. Peter —formerly of Huge a...