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Welcome to „The Future of UX“ - the podcast about the future of UX Design, where we explore how emerging technologies like AI, AR, VR, and the metaverse will impact user experience design. Join Patricia Reiners as they sit down with experts and thought leaders from the world of tech and design to discuss the latest trends, insights, and best practices in the field of UX.
From the ethics of AI to the future of user interfaces, we'll dive deep into the topics that matter most to UX designers, developers, and entrepreneurs. Whether you're just starting out
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#175 AI Made Designers Faster. So Why Aren't We Happier?
Nielsen Norman Group asked 521 UX practitioners how AI is changing their work. They rated AI 4.2 out of 5 for making tasks faster, but only 3.57 for how they feel about it, and 69% of comments were negative. In part one of a three part seri
#174 What Actually Gets Designers Hired in 2026 (and How I Build My Case Studies with Claude)
🚀 Case Study Engine course: waitlist presale from Monday, 2 November → Join the Case Study Engine waitlist (https://ai-for-designers.com/claudecodeportfolio-waitlist) Hiring managers decide in about five seconds what you do, how senior you
#173 Quarterly: Claude Motion, Figma Agents, and Why I Moved My Business Into Claude Code
👉 Join the Case Study Engine waitlist: https://ai-for-designers.com/claudecodeportfolio-waitlist The waitlist opens first on 9 November, gets the lowest price and an exclusive live Q&A call with me. A client asked me for my projects, and I
#172 Meta Muse: The Cutest Trojan Horse in Tech
Meta's Muse is one of the best designed AI products of the year, and its little keychain, the Muse Charm, is coming by December. In this episode I look at what is inside the horse: hourly files on you and the people you mention, training sw
#171 Should We Be Scared of AI?AI Agents Hacked Hugging Face to Cheat on a Test
This summer, more than a thousand AI agents broke out of a test at OpenAI and hacked Hugging Face, because they were looking for the answers to an exam. A few weeks later a 27 year old researcher quit his job at Anthropic and said the AI la
#170 AI Influence Without Authority: 3 Meetings Every Designer Has Sat In, with Brittni Bowering
👉 Grab one of the last seat for AI for Designers: https://ai-for-designers.com AI is taking over more and more of the making. What's left for us as designers is the meeting where it all gets decided, and I think most of us never learned ho
🔵 AI for Designers open for Enrollment: Early bird available until Thursday
🔵 Open for enrollment: AI for Designers Early Bird Until Thursday: https://ai-for-designers.com (https://ai-for-designers.com/) A special episode, a little outside the usual rhythm. Doors for the next round of my AI for Designers Bootcam
#169 The New AI Identity: What Product/UX Designers Need Now
AI for Designers: 5-week Bootcamp 💻 opening September Sep 28 → Sign up for the waiting list (https://ai-for-designers.com) Part three of the iden
#168 Nobody Invites the UX Designer Anymore (UX Identity Crisis, Part 2)
AI for Designers: 5-week Bootcamp 💻 opening September Sep 28 → Sign up for the waiting list (https://ai-for-designers.com) One UX designer, one fas
#167 UX Has an Identity Crisis
UX Has an Identity Crisis, and AI Is Just the Inspection What is really changing in UX right now, the numbers behind it, and why AI is the inspection rather than the cause. Part one of two. Resources and links • AI for Designers Bootcamp: h
#166 The Great Role Shift: Design Engineers, Claude Design, and What It Means for You
Join the AI Workforce Challenge Sep 07 - Sep 14 LIVE ✨ Build your own agents and skills with Claude: Let's build together (https://ai-for-designers.com/aiworkforce-challenge) Show notes / sources • AI in Design Report 2026 — Teams chapter (
#165 My AI Workforce in Claude Cowork: The Agents and Skills Behind the Scenes
7 Day Challenge, build your own AI workforce. Starts 7 September, seven days, one hour a day. 🔧 Sign up here (https://ai-for-designers.com/antiaislop-challenge) I work 24 hours a week. If you opened my laptop today you would not find a ch
#164 How Fin (Intercom) Prototypes With AI with Domingo Widen
Domingo Widen is a Staff Product Designer at Fin (formerly Intercom), where he leads the Frontend Infrastructure team — the team that builds the tools, design system and AI setup everyone else uses to ship. In this episode he opens up his a
#163 The Quarterly: My 24h Work week and What I'm Actually Working On (And What I Got Wrong)
In this first quarterly update I talk about the private company cohorts I'm building, the free Adobe Firefly workshop series, and three shifts I saw in the field over the last three months. Plus the honest version of how I actually work: th
#162 The Case of the Vanished Judgment
A designer with 20+ years of experience sits in front of twelve competent, AI-generated screens... and can't evaluate a single one. Not because they're bad. Because something is missing. And the same thing happened to me. In this episode, I
#161 700 Components in One Day: How Design Work Is Quietly Moving Into Code
A client of mine just rebuilt their entire Figma design system — roughly 700 components — as code components in Claude Code. It took one day. And now their designers prototype in code, while Figma has become the tool they open "when they oc
#160 AI Customer Research: Why Designers Should Learn Claude Code with Caitlin Sullivan
Most designers think Claude Code is a developer tool. Caitlin Sullivan makes the case that it's one of the most underrated tools for customer research and insight work. In this episode we talk about how she actually uses AI to get from raw
#159 Beyond the Copilot: The 4 AI Patterns Every Designer Should Know
Most teams default to chat when they think about adding AI to a product. But chat is just one pattern — and often not the right one. In this episode, Patricia breaks down the four AI interaction patterns every designer needs to know: Adviso
#158 Why Junior Design Jobs Are Vanishing (And What To Do About It)
Junior design jobs are disappearing and most people are blaming the wrong thing. In this episode, I break down what's actually happening to entry-level design roles right now, why AI is only part of the story, and where the real opportuniti
#157 Google I/O Takeaways for Designers
Google I/O 2026 happened. And a few things they announced will actually change how you work as a designer. In this episode I break down the 7 that matter most — no fluff, just the stuff that's relevant for UX and product designers right now
#156 Figma MCP, Claude skills, Agents
AI for Designers: 5-week Bootcamp 💻 → Sign up for the waiting list (https://ai-for-designers.com) 👉 0€ Training: Build your first Claude Skill in 10 min 👈 →
AI for Designers Is Open: Everything You Need to Know
AI for Designers is officially open for enrollment for just a couple of days (or until it's sold out)- In this special episode of Future of UX, I’m answering all the biggest questions about my live bootcamp AI for Designers. We talk about:
#155 I Tested 50 AI Tools. I Kept 5. Here's Why.
AI tool overwhelm is real. Every week there's a new demo, a new hype cycle, a new tab you open twice and never touch again. In this episode I share the five tools that actually stayed in my stack and more importantly, the exact workflows I
#154 AI Evolution: The Darwin Moment in UX
Before UX, before Figma, before any of this . Patricia studied biology. And that lens changes how she sees what’s happening in design right now. Because this isn’t just another tech shift. It’s evolution. In this episode, she breaks down wh
#153 Claude Design: I Tested It So You Don't Have To
Claude Design launched April 17, 2026 and it's Anthropic's most designer-relevant release yet. In this episode, Patricia walks through three real experiments: a branded design system integration, an interactive infographic, and a social med
#152 Claude Cowork for Designers in 30 min (5 Real Workflows, Step by Step)
Claude Cowork is one of the most underestimated tools for UX designers right now. In this episode, Patricia breaks down exactly what Cowork is, how it's different from regular AI chat, and five concrete workflows you can run today — includi
#151 The Empathic Web: When interfaces start responding to your emotions with Sebastian Löwe
What if websites could understand how you feel? In this episode of Future of UX, Patricia talks with Sebastian, Director of UX Design at Virtual Identity, about a concept that could fundamentally change how we design digital experiences: th
Quarterly Update: The AI Shifts Designers Should Watch Now
In this quarterly update, Patricia shares the few AI shifts designers should actually pay attention to right now—beyond the noise. We talk about Claude Skills (prompts turning into reusable workflows), what happens when tools start connecti
#149 Designing AI Features: The 3-Step Framework Product Teams Need with Bansi Mehta
In this episode of the Future of UX Podcast, I’m speaking with Bansi Mehta, founder of Koru UX Design. We talk about one of the biggest challenges product teams face today: Everyone wants to add AI to their product. But very few teams know
#148 Understand Claude in 20 Minutes: Skills, Plugins, Code & What Designers Should Actually Use
Everyone is suddenly talking about Claude… but most people are still a bit confused about what it actually does. In this episode, I break down the key features like Skills, Plugins, Connectors, Canvas, and Claude Code in a simple and practi
