🔵 AI for Designers open for Enrollment: Early bird available until Thursday

Future of UX | Your Design, Tech and User Experience Podcast | AI Design

Host Patricia announces the new enrollment period for the 'AI for Designers' bootcamp, focusing on moving from passive tutorial consumption

Key takeaways

• Senior designers often feel more lost with AI than juniors, despite having extensive portfolios.
• The primary bottleneck in learning AI is not a lack of free information, but the isolation of self-teaching.

Main topics

• AI for Designers Bootcamp structure
• Overcoming AI learning anxiety

Notable quotes

Watching feels like progress. But the understanding only arrives when something breaks in your own projects.

Conclusion

Designers should prioritize hands-on experimentation and community eng

Transcript preview

Speaker 2 (0:00) What I keep noticing in my DMs at the moment or when I'm going to conferences, so last week I went to Copenhagen for the Future Product Days and I'm talking to different designers, is that, yeah, a lot of designers say that they feel completely lost with AI. And what I find interesting that almost never or most of the times Those people are not juniors. They are senior designers. They are design leads. People with 10, 15 years behind them and a portfolio I would be super happy to have. And every one of them writes to me or tells me if they were the only person in the world feeling this way. I really think that tells us a lot about where we are right now. Because if the people everyone else measures themselves against feel behind, then who exactly is ahead? So this is a special episode, a little outside of the usual rhythm, because yesterday the doors opened for the next round of AI for Designers, the AI Bootcamp. And the early bird prize runs until Thursday. There are only a couple of spots left and I know a lot of you are still on the fence. So instead of uploading another reel or another story on Instagram, I thought that I will just sit down and tell you what happens. in the AI for Designers Bootcamp, how it feels from the inside and also a few stories from the people who went through it. I will also tell you who I think it's not for, because I think that part matters just as much. So welcome back to the future of UX. My name is Patricia and there are a few questions sitting underneath this whole episode for me. Why does learning AI on your own take you so much longer than it should when almost All of the information out there is free. So what actually changes in your work once you stop collecting all the tutorials and start building one real thing, one real AI project? And there's one I can't fully answer myself yet. Why does a senior designer look like two years from now when everyone has access to the same tools? So let me quickly tell you what's waiting for you in the next couple of minutes in this episode. First of all, I will tell you about the moment earlier this year when I also got stuck myself and what I thought, yeah, or I would say what it taught me about and why most of us don't need more knowledge at all. When I will walk you through the five weeks of the AI Bootcamp one by one so that you can picture how a Monday in their actually feels. After that comes the story of how the guest session I'm super excited about almost, yeah, didn't happen. And then what happened last Thursday when one designer sent me her whole AR setup to take apart live. And at the very end, I will tell you who this isn't for and what I think all of this means for us as designers. By the time we are done, you will know whether this is for you and if it isn't, you still have a pretty good idea of how to learn this on your own. So let me start with me because I think my own story explains also why the bootcamp is a little bit different. Generally, it changes all the time. So I'm running now cohort number seven and each cohort is different. This is a thing of a live cohort. Of course, you get on-demand learning lessons for every module, but... We always have different guest speakers. The topics change. AI is changing a lot. So it's never the same. This is a completely live and unique experience. So for me, a couple of months ago, I decided to automate one small piece of my own work. It was not a big system or some grand plan. Just one task that I was really tired of doing by hand every week. And it took me so much longer than it should have. The task itself wasn't complicated. The hard part was that every time something didn't behave the way the tutorial said it would, there was nobody I could ask. So I'd change something, try again, get something slightly worse, and then at some point, close the laptop and tell myself that I would look at it again next week. And next week turned into the week after and so on and so on. And today that one small task has grown into a whole work setup of agents that handworked each other. And it has also changed how my business runs more than anything else I've tried in, I don't know, three years now. So the story ends well because I keep thinking about those five weeks because looking back, the tools were never the problem. The problem was that you're doing this alone. And I think alone is what turns easy things into month. And isn't that exactly what those senior designers in IDMs or when I'm meeting them at conferences, what they're describing? There's more free material on an eye than any of us could work through in a year. So knowledge can be the bottleneck. I think that what's missing is somebody who looks at your screen for like 90 seconds, says, yes, that happens to you. That happens to all of us. Change this one thing. Without that person, the same