Design | Experience
AI Product Designer Learning Stack and Roadmap
01 — UX Fundamentals
→ Nielsen Norman Group Norman Group: https://lnkd.in/gvq5zNjq
→ IxDF – Interaction Design Foundation Design Foundation: https://lnkd.in/gbWU_uXC
02 — Product Thinking
→ Product School: https://lnkd.in/gQ_QT-Yy
→ SVPG Articles: https://lnkd.in/gR-jPpsx
03 — SaaS UX & Product Patterns
→ Mobbin: https://mobbin.com/
→ Page Flows: https://pageflows.com/
→ SaaSFrame: https://www.saasframe.io/
04 — Design Systems… Read the rest
Systems Thinking and Design Thinking.
To build a world-class product, you have to zoom in on the human experience (Design Thinking) and zoom out on the broader ecosystem (Systems Thinking).
Here is the 5-phase blueprint to take a product from concept to millions of live users:
🗺️ Phase 1: Context & Ecosystem Mapping (Systems Thinking)
Before you sketch a single … Read the rest
Most AI products don’t fail because the model isn’t powerful enough.
They fail because the experience around the model wasn’t designed properly.
A lot of teams start with prompts, chat interfaces, and AI features.
Very few start with the full AI UX structure.
If you’re designing an AI-powered product, think beyond a simple chatbot.
You need:
• 𝗔𝗜 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝘅 to … Read the rest
First 30/60/90 Days Plan For Product Designers and UX Leads. With checklists, guides and Notion templates to get started in a new role — still relevant in AI world ↓
First 90 Days For Product Designers (+ Notion), by Arturo Ríos
Article: https://lnkd.in/e4eYWfiT
Notion template: https://lnkd.in/eE_-Eg53
90-Day Plan: Design Job Survival Guide (Google Doc checklist), by Niki Tisza
https://lnkd.in/daHkRnqA
Find … Read the rest
Most AI design critiques fail for one simple reason: We ask AI to critique everything at once.
Prompting AI “Review this design and tell me what’s wrong” sounds reasonable, but it usually produces a generic mix of accessibility, visual, content, and interaction feedback.
I get much better results with Claude Design by splitting critique into 4 focused passes:
1️⃣ Accessibility … Read the rest
Conversational Design by Erika Hall is a short, practical book about making digital products feel human instead of robotic.
Conversation is the best model for creating device-independent, human-centered systems. Just adding voice or chat doesn’t make something conversational. The book argues we should design interactions the way humans actually talk.
Get it here
UX Writing vs. Content Design. How they are different, what responsibilities and deliverables they entail — and the expectations that companies have ↓
In a design / UX team:
✍️ UX WRITERS work in a design team, writing and refining UI copy.
– Their primary focus is on the way the copy looks and sounds.
– Responsible for translating an … Read the rest
Useful Courses And Workshops For Designers, with video courses, workbooks and certification for UX, design systems, Figma and accessibility ↓
✤ Video Courses and Live UX Trainings
Product Design Masterclass, by Filippos Protogeridis
https://www.designary.com/
Figma + AI Masterclasses, by Christine Vallaure de la Paz
https://lnkd.in/eMfTB2KH
How To Measure UX and Design Impact, by Vitaly Friedman
https://measure-ux.com
Design Patterns For AI … Read the rest
The State of AI in Design Systems (https://lnkd.in/g2tZgRVm), an incredible field study with 150+ techniques across 20 design systems, specifically focused on how design systems implement and distribute AI tooling — MCP server, LLMs.txt, skills, AI docs etc. — for design system contribution and consumption. Wonderful work by Kaelig Deloumeau-Prigent.
Useful takeaways:
1. More design system teams now … Read the rest
Decreasing customer churn through UX requires fixing momentum losses via data backed design approach in optimizing onboarding clarity, accelerating time-to-value, and streamlining navigation paths.
Onboarding and Activation