Rosenfeld Review Podcast

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Lou Rosenfeld talks with a LOT of brilliant, interesting changemakers in the UX world and beyond. Subscribe to the Rosenfeld Media podcast for a bird's eye view into what shifts UX faces, and how individuals and teams can respond in ways that drive success.

Publisher

The Rosenfeld Review Podcast (Rosenfeld Media)

Category

technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

10 Jul 2014

Latest episode

28 May 2026

Latest episodes

47 of 252 episodes have a transcript.

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   28 May 2026

   AI, Discovery, and the New Product Manager with Julia Barham

   Product management is changing fast — and according to Julia Barham, many PMs are being pushed to the “left,” beyond delivery work into deeper discovery, customer insight, and strategic thinking. Julia joins Lou to discuss her forthcoming book, The Product Management Playbook: Create, Ship, and Optimize Winning Products, and why modern product managers need broader, end-to-end skills to thrive. Julia explains how AI and automation are reducing the amount of manual coordination and backlog management product managers traditionally handled — creating both anxiety and opportunity. As delivery work becomes easier, PMs are increasingly expected to spend more time understanding customers, validating ideas, collaborating across disciplines, and driving outcomes instead of simply shipping features. She also argues that great product managers succeed not because they know everything, but because they cultivate curiosity, build strong partnerships, and continuously learn across business, design, data, technology, and customer domains. The conversation also explores why many product managers feel disempowered inside organizations, the growing overlap between product and UX research, and how self-education, mentorship, and optimism can help professionals adapt during an uncertain AI-driven transition. What You'll Learn from this Episode: Why product management roles are shifting toward discovery work How AI is changing delivery and project-management tasks The five core domains strong product managers understand Why curiosity is a product manager’s “X factor” How PMs can better partner with UX, engineering, and data teams Why many product managers feel disempowered today How self-education and mentorship accelerate PM growth What end-to-end product management really looks like Quick Reference Guide: 0:18 – Meet Julia and learn why she wrote her new book 2:43 - Product managers shifting into customer rese–arch roles 5:29 - The dynamics of research shifting into the product space 8:44 - Other major messages of Julia’s book 11:55 - The common thread: curiosity 13:24 - Designing with AI virtual conference 14:10 - The insecurity of having breadth of knowledge but not depth 17:09 - The importance of self-education 19:02 - The ubiquitous attitude of “nobody listens to me or respects my position” and what to do about it 23:46 - Julia’s gift for listeners Resources and Links from Today's Episode: The Product Management Playbook: Create, Ship, and Optimize Winning Products by Julia Barham https://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/product-management-playbook/ Dr. Marily Nika’s courses on Maven https://maven.com/marily-nika Dr. Marily Nika on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/marilynika Hilary Gridley’s Couch-to-5K for AI https://couchto5k.ai/ Quotes: “Successful product managers usually operate across five different domains.” “It’s not a book on theory; it’s a book on doing.” “You need to be a really good partner if you want to be a great product manager.” “The point is harnessing multiple superpowers to get that integrated thinking and develop a solution that’s going to work across what customers need, businesses need, and then can be scalable and sustainable.” “You have to be curious. You have to spend time with your partners, get mentors, and learn to understand how design, data, technology all help you make a better product for customers and for your business.”

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   27 May 2026

   From Efficiency to Imagination with Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred

   AI is opening the door to a new era of design—but most teams are still focused on making their existing work faster rather than reimagining what’s possible. Lou talks with Josh Clark and Veronica Kindred about their new book, Sentient Design, and what it takes to design truly intelligent interfaces. They introduce the idea of “practical magic”—starting with bold, even impossible wishes and then working backward to create real, deliverable experiences. Rather than defaulting to chatbots and efficiency gains, they argue that AI enables entirely new interaction models, from adaptive interfaces to agents that collaborate directly within products. The conversation also explores how design systems and past UX practices lay the groundwork for this shift, while designers themselves must unlearn habits that limit creativity. Through their “sentient design sprint” and “minimum magical product” framework, Josh and Veronica offer a structured way to move from imagination to implementation. At its core, this episode is a call for designers to reclaim their role as inventors—embracing AI not just as a tool, but as a new design material for creating more responsive, dynamic, and human-centered experiences. What You'll Learn from this Episode: Why AI is a new “design material,” not just a productivity tool How “practical magic” helps teams rethink what’s possible Why designers are stuck focusing on process instead of product innovation What adaptive, intelligent interfaces could look like in practice How the “sentient design sprint” turns ideas into real solutions What designers need to unlearn to work effectively with AI Quick Reference Guide: 0:13 - Meet Josh and Veronika and learn about their new Rosenfeld Media book 3:14 - Harnessing magical thinking with AI 9:19 - Moving beyond process, speed, and efficiency 13:11 - How designers can transition from tooling to inventing 16:53 - Exciting places the magic could take us 23:40 - 5 reasons to use the Rosenverse 25:52 - The Sentient Design Sprint 30:08 - The Sentient Triangle 33:36 - Is this applicable to non-traditional designers? Or what designers need to unlearn? 39:56 - Josh and Veronica’s gifts for listeners Resources and Links from Today's Episode: Sentient Design: Crafting Intelligent Interfaces with AI by Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred https://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/sentient-design/ Designing with AI 2026 - June 9, 2026 https://rosenfeldmedia.com/designing-with-ai/ Enchanted Objects: Innovation, Design, and the Future of Technology by David Rose https://www.amazon.com/Enchanted-Objects-Innovation-Design-Technology/dp/1476725640 This is Running: A Celebration of the World of Running, Exploring the Culture, History, Brands, Races and People Behind It by Raziq Rauf https://www.amazon.com/This-Running-Celebration-Exploring-Culture/dp/1837330425?crid=10LYBYV063BKK&dib Quotes: “We try to get in touch with the moments of emerging technology that help us to let go of the old ways of doing things and embrace the new, to think in terms of magical wishes.” “A ‘magical moment’ is that machines can understand our intent beyond just what we know to type.” “The danger is we’re not endorsing magical thinking.” “First we retool, then we reorganize to get our process around that. And then we invent.”

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   19 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The Jagged Mind: Staying Human in an AI-Smooth World with Paul Ford

   Host Lou and author Paul Ford discuss how language shapes our understanding and responsible use of AI, offering practical rules for human-centered integration.

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The Jagged Mind: Staying Human in an AI-Smooth World with Paul Ford

Published 19 May 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] When the LLM does find gaps, it actually can identify them, which is really nice. I know what is known and what is not known. And I'm not just relying on this system to make a lot of language, but I can get advantages out of it because it will organize and glue stuff together. So thinking about that, right? Like I've added layers and loops and sort of structure to this system so that I can have more confidence in it. And then my rule can bend a little bit. Okay, it still can't write for me, but I feel because I know that process and I can identify it and I can actually look at the knowledge graph and make sure that things fit together, I can have increasing confidence that what it's producing is accurate and is similar to what I'm asking for. […]

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• Paul Ford
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• Jen van der Meer
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