AI, Product and Design Podcast
The AI, Design, & Product Podcast explores how AI is changing the way products are built. Episodes cover shifts in UX, product management, startups, and the limits of current interfaces like the prompt box. It also looks at how AI-native workflows are replacing traditional design toolchains and what hybrid designer, PM, and engineer roles might look like next. Host Mark talks with guests such as Dan Saffer, Barry O'Reilly, Luke Wroblewski, and Akshay Kore to separate hype from practical playbooks. The show is aimed at designers, researchers, PMs, and founders planning what to build and unlearn over the next few years.
Episodes
#16 Why 85% of AI Projects Fail - And Why Most Teams Are Still Getting AI Wrong | Greg Nudelman
Send us Fan MailMark speaks with Greg Nudelman, UX strategist, speaker, and author of UX for AI.If you work in UX, product, or AI and feel like the ground is shifting under your feet, this is the kind of conversation that helps cut through the noise. Greg’s argument is simple but urgent: most AI projects are not failing because of the models. They are failing because teams are still choosing the w
#15 AI Won’t Fix Bad UX: Dan Winer on SaaS Bloat, Design Systems and Product Strategy
Send us Fan MailIn this episode Mark speaks with Dan Winer, Director of Product Design at Kit, the creator focused email marketing and automation platform formerly known as ConvertKit. Dan brings a rare mix of design leadership, front end development experience, and deep B2B product thinking to a conversation that goes far beyond surface level AI hype. This conversation starts with a familiar prob
#14 The Interface Is Dissolving: Luke Wroblewski on Agents, AI Workflows and What Comes After the Prompt Box
Send us Fan MailMark is joined by Luke Wroblewski, product leader, author and one of the clearest voices in interface design. This conversation explores where interface design is heading as AI systems become more agentic, more capable, and more embedded in everyday workflows. Luke shares why he has long believed the goal is not better screens or cleaner layouts, but making the interface fade into
#13 AI Is Making UX Harder, Not Better: Dan Saffer on Prompt Boxes, AI Fatigue and the Future of Product Teams
Send us Fan MailIn this episode of the UX Institute Podcast, Mark Swain speaks with Dan Saffer, designer, educator and a sharp voice on where AI product design is heading and where it is still falling short.This conversation looks at the reality of using AI day to day, beyond the hype. Dan explains why so many AI products still feel like hard work, why the prompt box has become a lazy default inte
#12 Not Chasing Unicorns: Venture Studios, ‘Boring’ AI, and the Future of UX – with Barry O’Reilly of Nobody Studios
Send us Fan MailIn this episode of the UX Institute Podcast, I speak with Barry O’Reilly — author of Lean Enterprise and Unlearn, and co-founder of venture studio NobodyStudios — Barry joins us to talk about why he’s not chasing unicorns, and why “boring” AI businesses might be the smartest bet in the next decade.Barry shares his journey from accidentally falling into programming in Dublin, Irelan
#11 Design in the Age of AI: What’s Coming, What Breaks, and What Becomes Possible with Lovable
Send us Fan MailIn this episode, we sit down with Mendigas from the Lovable product team — a non-traditional designer, community builder, and AI super-user who went from recruiting in Dublin to quietly influencing how thousands of creators build products today.We unpack what the next 3–5 years will actually feel like for designers, UX researchers, PMs, and product builders in an AI-native world. F
#10 Why Most Startups Fail & What UX Leaders Need to Fix with Mark Swaine (featured on Better Tech Leadership)
Send us Fan MailOn this special episode, your usual host Mark Swaine, sits down as a guest on the Better Tech Leadership podcast to unpack some of the biggest shifts happening at the intersection of UX, product, and AI."Building software today isn’t hard — what’s hard is building the right thing, in the right way, at the right time." – Mark SwaineDrawing from his years leading UX and pr
#9 Transforming Data into User Experience Gold with Serena Chan from Dovetail
Send us Fan MailUnlock the secrets of transforming user research into powerful customer insights with Serena Chan from Dovetail. "There's no better feeling than after you've shared out a research report and then, months later, a stakeholder comes back and references it and says, 'Oh, remember that cool research you did? Wow, this is really relevant now." – Serena ChanThe S
#8 The Evolution of Design in the Age of AI with author Akshay Kore
Send us Fan MailThe Evolution of Design in the Age of AI with Akshay KoreIn the latest episode of our podcast, we delve into the evolving landscape of design where artificial intelligence (AI) intersects with UX. Our distinguished guest, Akshay Kore, who has previously worked for Microsoft and is now Design Lead at Suki AI, shares his wisdom and insights drawn from his recent book, "Designing
#7 AI & UX - A conversation on how AI is enhancing Product User Experiences, with AI & UX (Why AI needs UX) author Gavin Lew
Send us Fan MailAI & UX (Why AI needs UX): A Conversation with Gavin Lew Have you ever wondered how artificial intelligence is transforming the world of user experience and product design? This episode engages in an insightful discourse with our distinguished guest, Gavin Lew, co-author of AI and UX: Why Artificial Intelligence Needs User Experience. We navigate the world of AI, debunking its
#6 UX Thought Leadership with Mark Swaine - UX for Startups, SaaS UX, Deeper Personalised Experiences, Innovation Culture, and UX Trends
Send us Fan MailThe Enigma of UX: Mark Swaine's Insight into Tech Transformation In this special episode, the tables are turned, and your host becomes the guest. Mark was recently featured on Dublin Tech Talks with Gavin Fox.Mark takes us on a thrilling journey from his early days in web design to consulting on interactive experiences for some of the biggest brands in the world. You'll b
#5 FlashBack - A rare and special conversation with Eric Jordan, 2Advanced Studios, covering the 2Advanced era, Erics career, web design, flash, and UX
Send us Fan MailEric Jordan, the founder of 2Advanced Studios, takes listeners on a very special journey through the early days of Flash website design and how it influenced his approach to designing world-renowned immersive web experiences that created hysteria during the early-mid 2000s. Eric reflects on the rise of 2Advanced and the impact of the projects the studio produced had on designers wo
#4 Stack Ranking & Prioritising UX Research Insights (feat. Daniel Kyne, CEO/Founder of OpinionX)
Send us Fan MailOpinionX: Unlocking the Power of Prioritizing with Daniel KyneThe co-founder and CEO of OpinionX, Daniel Kyne, talks about his research tool that helps product and design teams quickly stack rank customer priorities, making it easier for teams to make data-driven decisions and chase new opportunities. Learn how to use qual-quant workflows, customer problem stack ranking, and pairwi
#3 Mastering Product Experience With IKEA UX Leader Eelko Lommers.
Send us Fan Mail‘’Doing remarkable things can only be done at a place where you can be who you are, and have that freedom where you fit into that team and where all of the stuff you do is appreciated. ‘’ – Eelko Lommers. Welcome to the UX Institute podcast, hosted by UXI founder Mark Swaine. This show is focused on the transformational journeys and learnings from inspirational UX and product leade
#2 UX Institute Founder Mark Swaine Speaks With Interplay's Founder Michael Fitzgerald On Design/Dev Workflow, Design Systems And Prototyping
Send us Fan MailUXI speak to Michael Fitzgerald, co-founder of Interplay. Mark and Michael discuss the historic workflow pain that both designers and developers have faced working together building product, the inefficiencies and poor communication. The conversation opens up the realities of the lack of understanding / misinterpretation by developers as to how product screens should function and
#1 UX Institute Founder Mark Swaine Talks With Megan Kierstead On Why UX / Product Research Is Hard | UX Institute (UXI)
Send us Fan MailMark Swaine founder of the UX Institute talks with Megan Kierstead, a seasoned senior UX Researcher about the realities of carrying out UX Research and how hard it can be. Megan and mark discuss how the lack of realistic and common effective ways of demonstrating insights, there impact and effect on product proposition and business lack greatly in day to day UX practice.SHOW NOTES:
The Experience Economy
Send us Fan MailMark Swaine CEO of the UX Institute is interviewed by Morgan Cummins of Talent Hub in this special one on one chat about the importance of the customers end to end journey and how experience design shapes each perception, interaction and post product experience.Support the showUXI (UX Institute) Original Podcast 2026. www.uxinstitute.com
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