"With AI, anyone on a team can generate mockups in minutes. That was never the hard part. The difficult work is, and always has been, maintaining coherency and intention across a product so it works for people, not the other way around. And perhaps unintuitively, everyone making mockups can help."
"Seeing each person's concepts led me to ask the more important design questions. How do these features interact? What are the relationships between them? We discussed the system, its objects, and the mental model that made most sense for our target users."
"We got to a shared understanding of the data we needed to support the UI, how it should be structured and how it interrelates with the rest of the product. Back-end, front-end, PM, and design on the same page. Which makes sense because these are the conversations that drive clarity and coherence in a product. Not "do you like this in my mockup or that in some other person's mockup?""
"At first, the professors tried to stop students from using AI. But quickly they realized they should encourage it. When all the students came in with the baseline analysis behind them, the conversation could progress to the next level. Before, it took the whole class hour just to get to the bas"
AI enables team members to generate mockups in minutes, but mockup creation is not the main challenge. The difficult work is maintaining coherency and intention across a product so it works for people. Multiple disciplines can bring different UI concepts enabled by AI, which can prompt deeper design questions about feature interactions, relationships, and the mental model for target users. The resulting conversations focus on system objects, data requirements, and how UI structure interrelates with the rest of the product. Shared understanding across backend, frontend, product management, and design improves clarity and coherence. Encouraging AI can also accelerate learning by providing baseline analysis so discussions move to higher levels.
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