UX Institute - UX Research & Product Design
Hosted by Mark Swaine · AI Product & Design Podcast
4.8from 6 ratings
- 17
- Episodes
- 5
- Transcribed
- 6
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
- 155
- YouTube views
About UX Institute - UX Research & Product Design
The AI, Design, & Product Podcast is your front-row seat to how AI is reshaping the way we build products. Each episode dives into the real shifts happening across UX, product, and startups, from why the prompt box is already a broken interface, to how AI-native workflows are replacing traditional design toolchains, to what the next generation of hybrid designer/PM/engineer roles actually looks like. Mark sits down with sharp voices like Dan Saffer, Barry O'Reilly (Nobody Studios), Luke Wroblewski, and Akshay Kore to cut through the hype and surface the playbooks, mindsets, and strategic shifts product people need to thrive in an AI-powered world. If you're a designer, researcher, PM, or founder trying to figure out what to build, what to unlearn, and where the real opportunities are over the next 3–5 years, this is the conversation you'll want in your feed.
- Publisher
- AI Product & Design Podcast
- Category
- technology · technology · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 29 Apr 2020
- Latest episode
- 23 Jun 2026
Latest episodes
5 of 17 episodes have a transcript.
23 Jun 2026
#16 Why 85% of AI Projects Fail - And Why Most Teams Are Still Getting AI Wrong | Greg Nudelman
8 Jun 2026
#15 AI Won’t Fix Bad UX: Dan Winer on SaaS Bloat, Design Systems and Product Strategy
24 Apr 2026
#14 The Interface Is Dissolving: Luke Wroblewski on Agents, AI Workflows and What Comes After the Prompt Box
31 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT
#13 AI Is Making UX Harder, Not Better: Dan Saffer on Prompt Boxes, AI Fatigue and the Future of Product Teams
16 Dec 2025
#12 Not Chasing Unicorns: Venture Studios, ‘Boring’ AI, and the Future of UX – with Barry O’Reilly of Nobody Studios
24 Nov 2025TRANSCRIPT
#11 Design in the Age of AI: What’s Coming, What Breaks, and What Becomes Possible with Lovable
28 Jul 2025TRANSCRIPT
#10 Why Most Startups Fail & What UX Leaders Need to Fix with Mark Swain (featured on Better Tech Leadership)
26 Jul 2024TRANSCRIPT
#9 Transforming Data into User Experience Gold with Serena Chan from Dovetail
10 May 2024TRANSCRIPT
#8 The Evolution of Design in the Age of AI with author Akshay Kore
15 Nov 2023
#7 AI & UX - A conversation on how AI is enhancing Product User Experiences, with AI & UX (Why AI needs UX) author Gavin Lew
15 Nov 2023
#6 UX Thought Leadership with Mark Swaine - UX for Startups, SaaS UX, Deeper Personalised Experiences, Innovation Culture, and UX Trends
3 Apr 2023
#5 FlashBack - A rare and special conversation with Eric Jordan, 2Advanced Studios, covering the 2Advanced era, Erics career, web design, flash, and UX
4 Feb 2023
#4 Stack Ranking & Prioritising UX Research Insights (feat. Daniel Kyne, CEO/Founder of OpinionX)
2 Aug 2022
#3 Mastering Product Experience With IKEA UX Leader Eelko Lommers.
19 Feb 2021
#2 UX Institute Founder Mark Swaine Speaks With Interplay's Founder Michael Fitzgerald On Design/Dev Workflow, Design Systems And Prototyping
2 Sept 2020
#1 UX Institute Founder Mark Swaine Talks With Megan Kierstead On Why UX / Product Research Is Hard | UX Institute (UXI)
29 Apr 2020
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#13 AI Is Making UX Harder, Not Better: Dan Saffer on Prompt Boxes, AI Fatigue and the Future of Product Teams
Published 31 Mar 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So those kind of these power users that for us were about 25 % of the people that we talked to. And then there was like 75 % of the people who have maybe used it a few times, use it once or use it once in a while. For them, it is often kind of mystifying. It's a hard thing. There's no affordances. They don't know what it can do. They don't know the limitations of it. They don't know how to write good prompts for those all kinds of problems that they have. And a lot of them have just been like, I'm out. It doesn't work for me. I don't understand it. I don't know what to use it for. Can't I just search for these things? […]
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