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Practical ways to use AI for exploration, synthesis, and critique. Keep your evidence traceable and your design decisions intentional.
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Practical AI workflows for UX designers
Four complete AI-assisted workflows for research, critique, prototyping and handoff, with prompts, examples and human review checklists.
Before-and-after UX Design Lab
Four annotated, conceptual UX comparisons: onboarding, checkout, form recovery and empty dashboards. Explore tradeoffs and what to test.
Explore wider with AI. Decide sharper as a designer.
Use AI to widen your options, stress-test ideas, and spend more time on the decisions that matter.
Your AI prototype looks finished. Is it ready for real people?
A convincing screen can hide missing behavior. Review the states, data, and decisions before treating a prototype as a product.
Let AI find patterns. Keep the evidence attached.
Use AI to assist synthesis without turning guesses into research findings.
Use AI to understand people—not to replace them.
Practical ways to use AI to prepare for, organize, and deepen real user understanding.
From messy brief to testable prototype—with AI.
A practical workflow that keeps evidence and judgment in human hands.
Better research starts with a better question.
Turn assumptions into questions you can investigate with real people.
A better-looking redesign is a hypothesis. Here is how to test it.
Use before-and-after comparisons to explain a decision, then find out whether the change helps people complete the task.
A better brief for your AI design partner.
What to tell an AI tool so its suggestions fit your users, your constraints, and your goals.
Pretty is the beginning of a critique.
A practical review for AI-generated screens and interaction flows.
How to ask for design feedback that moves the work forward
“What do you think?” invites opinions about everything. A useful critique starts with the decision you need help making.
Design for outcomes, not output.
Connect your design work to the change people need—and use AI to help measure whether it happened.
A design handoff checklist for the screens nobody remembers to draw
The happy path is only part of the product. A useful handoff explains behavior, constraints, and recovery as clearly as appearance.
Your most important design tool is your judgment.
Understand the designer’s role in framing problems and shaping product decisions.
The design journal
Ideas for building your UX craft, working thoughtfully with AI, and finding your voice in product design.
Audit your onboarding: seven questions before you redesign the welcome screen
The useful unit of onboarding is the first meaningful customer outcome. Follow the whole path to that outcome.
What to bring to a UX review so you leave with useful decisions
A focused review starts with one journey, a decision and the evidence you already have. Here is how to prepare without redesigning everything first.
Present the decision, not just the screens.
Make your design reviews clearer, more focused, and easier to act on.
How to prioritize UX friction without giving your product a made-up score
Turn a list of concerns into a useful investigation order by considering blocked tasks, reach, evidence and the cost of being wrong.
Five small habits that sharpen your UX craft.
Simple ways to practice noticing, questioning, and improving everyday experiences.
Test the assumption before polishing the pixels.
Plan a small usability study around the riskiest part of your idea.
What to practice as a UX designer when AI can generate the screens
Use faster production to practice the work that makes a product worth building: framing problems, testing assumptions, and explaining decisions.
How to write a UX case study when you do not have impressive metrics
You can show strong design judgment without inventing a conversion lift. Make the problem, evidence, decisions, and limits easy to follow.
UX is what happens. UI is what you see.
Learn to look beyond the screen and design the whole experience.
Start with people. Build from there.
Learn the fundamentals of user experience through real questions and practical exercises. Start at the top and take it one lesson at a time.
Build your first functional prototype with AI
A five-module learning path: frame a task, map states, build with AI, test the experience and explain the work without invented outcomes.
Find your starting point
Choose a path, try the exercises, and bring what you learn into your next project. Every guide is free to read.
Your impact goes beyond the screen.
Strengthen your role in product decisions, explain your thinking, and build the everyday habits that make you a better designer.
UX design practice challenges
Three complete design challenges with realistic constraints, review criteria, sample approaches and reflection prompts.
A useful little toolkit
Simple playbooks to make your next project clearer. Download, adapt, and use them in your own work. Open the Markdown files in a text editor or import them…
Sample UX Decision Review
See an illustrative UX review with observations, three priorities, confidence levels and a next-test plan before booking a paid review.
UX Friction Check: choose your next investigation
Six questions about task clarity, commitment, accessibility, recovery, states and evidence, with a personalized investigation shortlist.
The Usability Session Kit
30 minutes · Plan a focused test of one important task.
The Accessibility First-Pass Worksheet
25 minutes · Surface barriers and plan a deeper evaluation.
The Honest Case Study Canvas
35 minutes · Tell the design story without invented impact.
Research Planner
Frame a research decision, plan a study and capture evidence.
AI Prompt Playbook
A thoughtful starting point for using AI in UX work.
Design Critique Checklist
Review a task, its states, accessibility and interaction logic.
Product Decision Log
Record alternatives, evidence, tradeoffs and the next decision.
UX Decision Checklist
Capture one task, evidence, friction, alternatives and the next test.