Life After UI

What happens when a product designer stops guessing — and starts using data, A/B testing, and AI to drive real business revenue? In this episode, host Stan sits down with Nikhil Singh, Senior Product Designer at Adobe's Product Cloud (the powerhouse behind Acrobat, Sign, and Document Cloud), to tackle one of the most underrated yet critical skills in modern product design: how to leverage data...

What happens when a product designer at Shopify starts pushing code to production, navigating the terminal, and blurring the line between pixels and code? In this episode, host Stan sits down with Kei Huynh, Product Designer working on design and growth at Shopify, to tackle one of the most pressing questions in the industry right now: what actually happens to the design profession when AI removes...

What happens when a Staff Product Designer at Shopify starts pushing code to production — and giving junior designers the green light to do the same? In this bonus episode, host Stan sits down with Matt Meurer, Staff Product Designer at Shopify, for a conversation that goes deep into the real, day-to-day reality of working with AI at enterprise scale. Matt shares how his workflow has evolved aroun...

What if the future of product design is not about interfaces anymore — but about interaction, motion, and AI-native experiences? In this episode, we sit down with Maya Brennan, Lead Product Designer at Amplitude and former Accenture designer, who’s rethinking where product design is heading in the age of AI — from multimodal interfaces to motion-driven experiences and entirely new ways of building...

In this episode, we sit down with Anna Arteeva, Product Design Leader and AI educator, who’s rethinking what it means to be a designer in the age of AI — one where building matters more than polishing pixels. Anna walks us through how designers are shifting from traditional workflows toward vibe coding, how component libraries like shadcn fit into this new way of working, and why starting in Figma...

In this episode, we sit down with Nick Babich — Product Designer and one of the most widely read design writers on Medium — to break down one of the most talked-about tools right now: Claude Design. We explore what Claude Design actually is, how it compares to Claude Code, and where it fits in a real design workflow. Nick shares his perspective on when it’s useful, when it’s not — and why token li...

In this episode, we sit down with Patricia Yu, Senior Product Designer at Adobe, who's thinking about design systems in a way most designers haven't considered yet — one that includes conversational guidelines for AI interactions, not just visual tokens and components. Patricia walks us through the triple diamond design process she uses at Adobe, how enterprise design systems are evolving...

In this episode, we sit down with Mahta Moattari, Senior Product Designer with experience at Shopify, who still starts every design project with pen and paper — even in the age of AI.Mahta walks us through what it's like going from Shopify's structured design team to a fast-moving startup, and how her process has evolved along the way. We explore how she uses AI tools like Cursor and Claud...

In this episode, we sit down with Javan Wang, Senior Product Designer at Shopify, who's flipped the traditional design workflow on its head - Figma is now his last step, not his first. Javan walks us through how he uses Claude, Cursor, and v0 to handle ideation, problem synthesis, and prototyping before ever touching Figma. We explore how Shopify's design system becomes the bridge between AI-gener...

How is AI actually changing the daily workflow of product designers in 2025? In this episode, Christina Yang - Senior Product Designer at Descript - shares how her team is shipping AI-powered features, why Figma is being pushed to the fringes of the design process, and what it means when designers start submitting pull requests. We dive deep into the real tools and workflows Christina uses daily -...