What it feels like to build in 2026
summary
Conference panel reports that 72% using generative AI and audience habits are split into thirds: dabblers, experimenters, and those who overhaul workflows. Claims include AI helping synthesis across decades of research at Dropbox, speeding production work (error states, forms) while ideation and conviction still need hand sketching and storytelling — some practitioners still sketch by hand and run 1000 iterations to find real direction, Playbit and Inter cited as creative-tool examples.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction and panel
- 1:47AI impact on design
- 4:49Fundamentals in AI era
- 6:41Scale and collaboration
- 9:36Maintaining design vision
- 11:46Learning and storytelling
- 14:13Diverging and converging
- 17:27Practical AI application
- 19:46Production vs ideation
- 22:20Cultivating conviction
- 25:52Closing thoughts
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