AI, Design, and the Fight Against Fake Products
AI has collapsed the distance between concept and testable product. When the domain is adversarial, you design from evidence, not…
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Feedback Loupe
The insights are mine. The hosts are not.
An occasional podcast on the frontier where AI, product design, and human creativity collide. Each episode surfaces one idea worth your attention. The hosts are fully AI-generated. The curation is not.
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Designing for Uncertainty
Ship real code and let reality grade the idea. For one solo builder, production code is the prototype — feedback comes from the field, not a conference room. This episode uses a forest-camping app to show what that looks like when the environment is messy on purpose.
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Kill or Pivot
The hardest product decision is what to stop building. The signals that distinguish a needed pivot from an honest ending.
Invisible Interface: When AR Disappears
Smart glasses have moved past the demo reel. This episode digs into the interaction design of ambient computing — what…
The Future of SAAS
SaaS is shifting from manual updates to AI-driven systems that learn in real time. What happens when the product adapts…
Fake Products, Real Consequences
Fake products erode the trust infrastructure that every real product depends on. A deep dive into the practical and ethical…
Building the right thing
Building software has never been easier. Deciding what to build has never been harder. The shift from execution risk to…
CMS Interoperability
FHIR, TEFCA, and the CMS Interoperability Framework — what it requires, and where the gap between standard and implementation creates…
The Assumption Trap
The most expensive assumption is the one the whole team agrees on. Navigating early-stage fog with design sprints, problem interviews,…
Myth and Mechanism
From ancient mythologies to modern AI, humanity has always designed autonomous agents. The myths we inherit shape the products we…
Escaping the Iteration Paradox
The MVP loop has a dark side. Teams ship, measure, tweak, and mistake the motion for progress. This episode unpacks…
Almost Human: Voice AI and the Future of Care
Voice AI is reshaping healthcare faster than most designers realize. This episode explores where the uncanny valley lives in audio,…
Adapting to AI: Evolving Roles in the Modern Workplace
AI did not eliminate roles — it moved the competence floor. What adaptability looks like when AI integration is a…
Hidden Goals: Uncovering the Secret Motivations of Language Models
Large language models exhibit multi-step reasoning and forward planning — but may also optimize for things nobody intended. This episode…
Feedback to Functionality: Improving Interfaces
Usability testing produces two kinds of signal: what people say about an interface and what they do with it. This…
Crafting Effective Problem Statements
Most product failures start with a problem statement too broad to be useful. This episode breaks down the anatomy of…
Storyboarding
Storyboards work because they force the team to walk through the user's experience frame by frame. This episode covers practical…
Team Wiki Best Practices
The difference between a wiki that works and one that collects dust is not the tool — it is the…
The Power of User Interviews: Insights and Business Impact
User interviews reveal what analytics and surveys cannot — the stories, emotions, and context behind the actions. This episode covers…
A Comprehensive UCD Guide to Personas
A persona is a hypothesis. The arc from proto-persona to validated persona is the arc from assumption to evidence. A…
Elevating Engineering Teams: Metrics, Culture, and Growth
Velocity, cycle time, deployment frequency — these measure output, not the conditions that produce good output. This episode looks at…
Designing AI That People Trust
AI startups in healthcare, cybersecurity, and defense face a different trust problem. Trust comes from fitting into workflows, not just…
Trust in System Accuracy: A Cross-Industry Review
Whether it's a doctor relying on AI or a trader evaluating suggestions, trust depends on transparency and honesty about limitations.…
Human-Centered Design: A Startup’s Guide to Product Design
UX is not a phase you add after the product works. A practical guide to human-centered design for startups without…
MVP Development: HCD and Agile Best Practices
Building an MVP for AI in healthcare requires speed without compromising user needs or regulations. The most successful healthcare MVPs…
Daemon
From UNIX background processes to AI agents, the daemon concept traces the line from reactive tools to autonomous collaborators.