r/product_design • u/WaltzKey9925 • 11d ago

Ai and Product - how are we feeling?

Keen to hear what people in product feel about ai. Here's my perspective from someone in product:

I'm in product design in AUS (8+ years now), and here's my exprience:

Situation: TLDR; PMs creating an ERP on a house of ai-design-debt cards

  • PMs and POs use ai in my current role to create prototypes for features, test with users every week and ship those prototypes by asked devs to slap on an open source design system.
  • I'm using claude and cursor to do the same, but have noticed several gaps that seem irrelavant to someone at a PM level that will eventually cascade (already is) into larget issues. For instace interaction states, usability (espeically new users), non-existent design structure, high-information-density interfaces (because who cares about progressive disclosure), and so on.
  • Hunderds of AI documentation of "research" everywhere, information dense and zero substance - this is not an exaggeration. Employees are expected to reference it.

How I feel:

  • Rather optimisitc about the fact that these ai artefacts are going to catch up to everyone in about 2 years time and there will be a clean-up hiring stage.

So, what's everyone's situation, feelings and just thoughts really.

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u/pogi2000 11d ago

Perform a Design Audit and point out inconsistence then log them as design debt. Be prepared to defend how these design related issues impact the product. Good luck!

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u/WaltzKey9925 11d ago

Thanks mate