Senior Product Designer

You’re comfortable delivering the right artifacts at the right time using modern, AI-enabled tooling, from translating Figma designs into functional prototypes or production-ready code, to leveraging tools like Cursor, Claude, or similar systems to accelerate design and development workflows.

AI+PO/BA - what are you doing besides analysis with AI?

The Best AI Prototypes Are Designed to Prove You Wrong

Most product teams treat prototypes as miniature success stories. The demo works. The model responds. The interface looks convincing. Everyone leaves the meeting feeling like the idea has momentum. But that can be exactly the wrong outcome. A useful AI prototype shouldn't just prove that something *can* work. It should expose the assumptions most likely to make the product fail. That's the more disciplined view [Goji Labs](gojilabs.com/.../from-idea-to-ai-prototyp...) takes in its recent discussion of AI prototyping: a prototype should test whether the product is worth building, not simply whether the technology is capable of producing an impressive output.  **The First Question Shouldn't Be About the Model** A surprising amount of AI product work still starts with questions like: * Which model should we use? * Should this be an agent? * Do we need retrieval? * Can we automate this workflow? * Should we build a chatbot? Those are implementation questions. The more important question is: **What user or business outcome are we actually trying to improve?** If that answer isn't clear, the prototype can become technically interesting without proving much of anything. **Every AI Idea Has a Weak Point** Maybe users don't actually want the feature. Maybe the data is incomplete. Maybe the model isn't reliable enough. Maybe the workflow can't tolerate uncertainty. Maybe the economics are terrible. Maybe the system requires so much human review that the automation doesn't save any work. Goji's recommendation is straightforward: identify the riskiest assumption and design the prototype around testing that first. That's a much better use of prototype budget than polishing the UI around an unanswered fundamental question. **Test the Workflow, Not the Screenshot** AI demos tend to focus heavily on output quality. Does the answer look good? Does the recommendation sou...