Healthcare is crucial. Yet healthcare systems in North America are falling behind. That’s why healthcare is constantly highlighted as the industry that will most benefit from AI. What can other industries learn from healthcare’s past and future implementations of AI? Our guest is Spencer Dorn, the Vice Chair and Professor of Medicine at the University of North Carolina. This is episode 23 and we’re exploring the challenges of implementing AI in complex industries: ➤ The successes and...

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-Lambert, the author of The AI Value Playbook: How to make AI work in the real world. She interviewed the leaders of 35 businesses who were early adopters of AI to define where it delivers the most value and how they’ve had to shift their strategies. This is episode 22 and the author of The AI Value Playbook will be sharing: ➤ First-hand...

After our last episode where Phillip Maggs outlined a vision for automating design production work, we asked ourselves,How might design organizations need to change as a result of AI? To answer this we spoke to the best in the industry, Peter Merholz who co-authored the book “Org Design for Design Orgs.” While our focus is on design, what we discuss will help anyone working on product teams. 01:49 Meet Peter Merholtz: Design Expert 05:44 Scaling Design Teams: Challenges and Solutions 14:07...

What’s the future of design? After seeing creative technologist, Phillip Maggs, present at Figma’s Config conference, we had to interview him. We’ll discuss industry-disrupting design automations & how they will empower human decision making. In episode 20 we answer the questions that have been worrying designers and products teams: ➤ Which types of design will be automated ➤ Design systems & brand guidelines as LLMs ➤ How brands will use GenAI to augment specific workflows ➤...

Sentient Design is the already-happening future of intelligent interfaces. Josh Clark & Veronika Kindred are here to discuss their upcoming book & vision of AI-powered experiences. In episode 19 the authors of the upcoming book, Sentient Design, tackle the biggest topics impacting product teams: ➤ The types of intelligent experiences that generative AI enables ➤ Moving beyond the chatbot: Where AI products go next ➤ Role of designers in shaping the next generation of digital...

We’re exploring the intersection of video games, emerging technologies, and product team KPIs with Kristie J. Fisher, PhD, the Sr. Director of Global User Research, PlayStation Studios. In episode 18 we explore Kristie’s experience at Playstation, Google, and Xbox and dive into how teams can build more engaging AI product experiences: ➮ Similarities, differences, and key learnings of working in games and big tech ➮ How insights teams should be structured to ensure they’re delivering impact ➮...

Episode 17. Our guest is Glenn MacDonald who was Spotify’s Data Alchemist, building it into an algorithmic powerhouse. We’re critically evaluating algorithms' effectiveness and why GenAI probably isn’t the best technology for many problems. The episode is hosted by: Arpy Dragffy Guerrero (Founder & Head of product strategy, PH1 Research) https://www.linkedin.com/in/adragffy/ Brittany Hobbs (VP Insights, Huge) https://www.linkedin.com/in/brittanyhobbs/ Glenn McDonald is a music...

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 for the first time. Yasemin is a Principal Design Manager at Microsoft, leading the Copilot product for Teams Meetings, Calling, and Devices. She’s the first designer to shape what Copilot is today. Previously, she served as the Director of Design at Digitalist. Yasemin is an advisory board member at IDEA School of Design at Capilano University....

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 have built AI products are finding that there’s often a mismatch between what customers find valuable and what the technology can do. Our guest is Arpy Dragffy Guerrero, the founder of PH1 Research where he has consulted Spotify, Microsoft, Mozilla, National Football League, to research and strategize how to best leverage emerging...

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: ‣ Responsible AI: What it is and how orgs need a clear vision for it ‣ Data transparency: Ensuring you are communicating appropriately ‣ Becoming one of Google’s first user researchers working on machine learning ‣ Philosophical differences to user research at Google, Meta, and Amazon ‣ Bridging academic research and the practical...

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, and Frog Design. We discuss: Why designers feel like their entire job will go away What advice he offers to the teams and individuals he coaches How AI is over--hyped and where it will have impact Lessons from working at the forefront of mobile technology Why Google, Apple, Meta, Microsoft are all racing to get there first ...

This conversation is a deep case study into what the capabilities of the technology are today and how product teams must leverage both creative experts and these emerging technologies, side-by-side. Our guest is Trisha Causley from Shopify. Topics we discuss: ▪ Why Trisha went from an AI skeptic to a champion ▪ What types of creative tasks GenAI is best at ▪ Tactical lessons for leveraging GenAI across product experiences ▪ Why prompt engineering must become part of your toolkit ▪...

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? Where will AI actually deliver impact in the near term? Joining us is Nick Sherrard, who is involved in digital innovation conversations across Fortune 500, government, and startups. He is a co-founder of Label Sessions, the global innovation expert network, and Label Ventures, the venture studio. He is also a board member at Substrakt, the...

Building products with GenAI brings powerful new capabilities but also a whole new set of uncertainties. Teams can't rely on best practices because the technology is changing so quickly and users are cautiously adopting change. Designing and shipping products can no longer be thought about as a linear process. Alexandra Holness, Senior Lead Product Designer at Klaviyo, joins to share lessons, cautions, and a path forward to help product teams build AI products that customers want. She sees...

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 leverages AI for behavior change and the technology’s potential for delivering meaningful outcomes. We go into how product teams should leverage AI for best results and the types of outcomes you should design for.  Dr. Amy Bucher is the Chief Behavioral Officer at Lirio where she leads the behavioral design of their AI products for healthcare. She...

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 developing or licensing products. Let’s learn from two building and leveraging AI today. Two case study presenters from the upcoming Rosenfeld Design with AI Conference (June 4 & 5) will be with us to detail out how they leveraged GenAI. Savannah Carlin, Staff Product Designer at Marqeta, will detail how to design conversational interactions with...

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 developing or licensing products. Let’s learn from two building and leveraging AI today. Two case study presenters from the upcoming Rosenfeld Design with AI Conference (June 4 & 5) will be with us to detail out how they leveraged GenAI. Savannah Carlin, Staff Product Designer at Marqeta, will detail how to design conversational interactions with AI....

Building products using emerging technologies is more difficult. As we’re seeing with building AI products today, teams are often chasing which use case and customer profiles to focus on. It’s harder because the new technologies make us obsess over what’s possible rather than what people actually need. Dr. Llewyn Paine joins us to share lessons and strategies from her advising teams working on spatial computing, virtual reality, and robotics. Her expertise is helping teams make better product...

Building products using emerging technologies is more difficult. As we’re seeing with building AI products today, teams are often chasing which use case and customer profiles to focus on. It’s harder because the new technologies make us obsess over what’s possible rather than what people actually need. Dr. Llewyn Paine joins us to share lessons and strategies from her advising teams working on spatial computing, virtual reality, and robotics. Her expertise is helping teams make better product...

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 Yoskovitz, Founding Partner of Highline Beta and author of Lean Analytics, joins us to discuss how many of these startups will fail to find a product-market fit. By rushing to get to market they’re likely skipping key steps that would typically improve their likelihood of success. We discuss the process his venture studio uses and where he sees...

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 Yoskovitz, Founding Partner of Highline Beta and author of Lean Analytics, joins us to discuss how many of these startups will fail to find a product-market fit. By rushing to get to market they’re likely skipping key steps that would typically improve their likelihood of success. We discuss the process his venture studio uses and where he sees...

AI has the potential to be a transformational technology. But how is it trained and how can you track authenticity? Virginie Berger, Chief Business Development and Rights Officer at Matchtune, joins us to discuss the developments with copyright issues related to creative fields in hopes of shedding light on what this means for other industries. A particular issue is what happens to business models when you can get replicas elsewhere and have no clarity on how they were derived? We explore...

AI has the potential to be a transformational technology. But how is it trained and how can you track authenticity? Virginie Berger, Chief Business Development and Rights Officer at Matchtune, joins us to discuss the developments with copyright issues related to creative fields in hopes of shedding light on what this means for other industries. A particular issue is what happens to business models when you can get replicas elsewhere and have no clarity on how they were derived? We explore...

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 patterns. She sees AI products getting to market with far less involvement from design than they should have. Design will undoubtedly experience shocks —with roles changing, and anti-patterns emerging— but also entirely new opportunities for design to shape adaptive experiences that offer users new capabilities to personally interact with products....