Future of UX | Your Design, Tech and User Experience Podcast | AI Design

#167 UX Has an Identity Crisis

UX Has an Identity Crisis, and AI Is Just the Inspection What is really changing in UX right now, the numbers behind it, and why AI is the inspection rather than the cau

#166 The Great Role Shift: Design Engineers, Claude Design, and What It Means for You

Join the AI Workforce Challenge Sep 07 - Sep 14 LIVE ✨ Build your own agents and skills with Claude: Let's build together Show notes / sources AI in Design Report 2026

#165 My AI Workforce in Claude Cowork: The Agents and Skills Behind the Scenes

7 Day Challenge, build your own AI workforce. Starts 7 September, seven days, one hour a day. 🔧 ⁠Sign up here I work 24 hours a week. If you opened my laptop today you w

#164 How Fin (Intercom) Prototypes With AI with Domingo Widen

Domingo Widen is a Staff Product Designer at Fin (formerly Intercom), where he leads the Frontend Infrastructure team — the team that builds the tools, design system and

#163 The Quarterly: My 24h Work week and What I'm Actually Working On (And What I Got Wrong)

In this first quarterly update I talk about the private company cohorts I'm building, the free Adobe Firefly workshop series, and three shifts I saw in the field over the

#162 The Case of the Vanished Judgment

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 somet

#161 700 Components in One Day: How Design Work Is Quietly Moving Into Code

A client of mine just rebuilt their entire Figma design system — roughly 700 components — as code components in Claude Code. It took one day. And now their designers prot

#160 AI Customer Research: Why Designers Should Learn Claude Code with Caitlin Sullivan

Most designers think Claude Code is a developer tool. Caitlin Sullivan makes the case that it's one of the most underrated tools for customer research and insight work. I

#159 Beyond the Copilot: The 4 AI Patterns Every Designer Should Know

Most teams default to chat when they think about adding AI to a product. But chat is just one pattern — and often not the right one. In this episode, Patricia breaks down

#158 Why Junior Design Jobs Are Vanishing (And What To Do About It)

Junior design jobs are disappearing and most people are blaming the wrong thing. In this episode, I break down what's actually happening to entry-level design roles right

#157 Google I/O Takeaways for Designers

Google I/O 2026 happened. And a few things they announced will actually change how you work as a designer. In this episode I break down the 7 that matter most — no fluff,

#156 Figma MCP, Claude skills, Agents

AI for Designers: 5-week Bootcamp 💻 → ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sign up for the ⁠waiting list⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  👉 0€ Training: Build yo

AI for Designers Is Open: Everything You Need to Know

AI for Designers is officially open for enrollment for just a couple of days (or until it's sold out)- In this special episode of Future of UX, I’m answering all the bigg

#155 I Tested 50 AI Tools. I Kept 5. Here's Why.

AI tool overwhelm is real. Every week there's a new demo, a new hype cycle, a new tab you open twice and never touch again. In this episode I share the five tools that ac

#154 AI Evolution: The Darwin Moment in UX

Before UX, before Figma, before any of this . Patricia studied biology. And that lens changes how she sees what’s happening in design right now. Because this isn’t just

#153 Claude Design: I Tested It So You Don't Have To

Claude Design launched April 17, 2026 and it's Anthropic's most designer-relevant release yet. In this episode, Patricia walks through three real experiments: a branded d

#152 Claude Cowork for Designers in 30 min (5 Real Workflows, Step by Step)

Claude Cowork is one of the most underestimated tools for UX designers right now. In this episode, Patricia breaks down exactly what Cowork is, how it's different from re

#151 The Empathic Web: When interfaces start responding to your emotions with Sebastian Löwe

What if websites could understand how you feel? In this episode of Future of UX, Patricia talks with Sebastian, Director of UX Design at Virtual Identity, about a concep

Quarterly Update: The AI Shifts Designers Should Watch Now

In this quarterly update, Patricia shares the few AI shifts designers should actually pay attention to right now—beyond the noise. We talk about Claude Skills (prompts tu

#149 Designing AI Features: The 3-Step Framework Product Teams Need with Bansi Mehta

In this episode of the Future of UX Podcast, I’m speaking with Bansi Mehta, founder of Koru UX Design. We talk about one of the biggest challenges product teams face toda