Product Design · AI Workflow

Designing with AI.

AI helps me understand problems faster, explore more ideas, and make better product decisions.

RoleProduct Designer II
FocusResearch, prototyping, validation
ToolsDovetail, Miro, Gemini, Figma Make, Cursor, Maze
ApproachAI-assisted product thinking
01 · Research

Finding the right evidence.

Instead of reviewing hundreds of interviews myself, I use AI to find the customers, quotes, and videos related to the problem I am exploring.

Example prompt

Find customers talking about the Transfer workflow, and show me the most useful quotes and video clips.

AI-assisted research search across customer interviews
02 · Synthesis

Making sense of large amounts of information.

AI helps me revisit large research boards, group similar ideas, and find patterns across previous work.

Example prompt

Review this board, group related feedback, and pull out the evidence that matters to this problem.

Large Miro research board summarized with AI
My role

AI organizes the information. I decide what matters.

03 · Explore

Thinking through ideas together.

I use AI for different jobs throughout the design process. It gives me another perspective—not an answer to copy.

AI design critique conversation
Design critique

Review my work

Find usability issues, edge cases, and missing states.

AI meeting summary
Meeting summary

Capture alignment

Summarize decisions, open questions, and next steps.

AI grouping workshop notes
Organize

Group information

Turn workshop notes into clear themes and a new structure.

AI exploring alternative product directions
Explore

Understand a new domain

Learn unfamiliar concepts and explore different approaches before making design decisions.

04 · Prototype

Making ideas easy to discuss.

I use Figma Make very early, before the idea is polished. A rough interactive prototype helps the team react to something real and move the discussion forward.

Prompt used to create an early prototype
Prompt

Start with an idea

Describe the workflow, user goal, and the questions we want to explore.

Early interactive prototype made with Figma Make
Product

Turn ideas into product decisions

The concept evolved into the final experience through feedback and iteration.

05 · Building with AI

From prompt to a working prototype.

AI helps me move from an idea to a working prototype much faster. I start with a prompt, refine the plan, develop through conversation, and build something I can actually test.

Prompt and project context shared with AI
Prompt

Give AI the right context.

Share the goal, product context, design rules, and technical constraints.

AI-assisted implementation plan
Plan

Break the work into smaller steps.

Review the approach and decide what to build first.

Development through an ongoing conversation with AI
Develop

Build and refine through conversation.

Guide the implementation, compare results, and adjust the direction.

Working prototype connected to the product environment
Working prototype

Test the idea in a real workflow.

Run the prototype with the existing codebase and development data.

06 · Validate

Preparing better research.

Before usability testing, I use AI to improve the study plan, refine questions, and find gaps in the script.

AI-assisted usability test planning and script improvement
Plan and script

Prepare better usability studies.

Check the goal, tasks, success criteria, possible bias, and whether the questions leave room for unexpected feedback.

AI helps me spend less time searching for answers—and more time solving the right problems.