9월 25일

43. Play Unlocks the Next Billion‑Dollar AI Market [Michelle Lee, IDEO]

Product teams and founders are under pressure, stuck in incremental roadmaps and burning out on short‑term wins. Michelle Lee—Partner & Executive Managing Director of IDEO’s Play Lab—shows why play is the hidden driver of markets that reshape industries. In this episode you’ll learn how to: Break the trap of incremental roadmaps: discover how playful divergence helps teams and founders uncover bolder product bets instead of chasing competitors. Spark breakthroughs your competitors miss: use playful tools like postcards from the future and sandboxing to unlock the next market‑shaping idea. Measure what drives loyalty and growth: move past vanity metrics to attitudinal loyalty and “time well spent” so your product earns deep, lasting adoption. —------- This is episode 43 of the Design of AI Podcast. And please make sure to rate this podcast if you find it valuable. Your podcast ratings and comments are the best way to influence which topics we cover in future episodes. And if you want more AI strategy & research content, subscribe to our substack newsletter at ⁠https://designofai.substack.com/⁠ Our next AI Product Strategy workshop is happening on October 30. In this 3-hour online workshop you’ll leverage our framework for discovering and pressure-testing disruptive AI product ideas. Get more info at https://designof.ai/workshop —---------- This episode was hosted by: Arpy Dragffy Guerrero ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/adragffy/⁠ Brittany Hobbs ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/brittanyhobbs/⁠ This episode is brought to you by PH1 Research, a research & strategy consultancy specialized in mapping the future of your business & product. Get more info at ⁠PH1.ca⁠ —------ As a Partner and Executive Managing Director, Michelle leads IDEO's Play Lab, an interdisciplinary team of designers and researchers who build upon 30+ years of toy invention to bring engaging, interactive, and playful experiences to market. She believes that play is essential across all ages. Immersed in a globally recognized human-centered design firm, the Play Lab leverages play as a mindset and approach that enables organizations to engage diverse stakeholders, imagine new possibilities, and spark action to transform behaviors, environments and systems. They've brought play to address diverse challenges from enhancing workplace culture to championing responsible digital design, inspiring underrepresented students to pursue careers in STEM, supporting organizations as they've adopted practices in line with a circular economy, and designing impactful products and services across industries, including education, consumer products, health, finance and workplace culture. Michelle regularly speaks and writes about her passion for play, including presentations at SXSW, The Delight Conference, The Culture Summit, Circularity 23, and educational institutions and organizations around the world, inviting audiences to reimagine the power of play in shaping meaningful futures. Learn more about her work: https://ideoplaylab.com https://linkedin.com/in/michellesklee

42분

9월 9일

42. HubSpot’s Head of AI on How AI Rewrites Customer Acquisition & Marketing

Product and growth teams are under pressure: reps spend most of their time not selling, marketers juggle every stage of the funnel at once, and new products struggle to even be seen as LLMs start deciding who shows up. Nicholas Holland, SVP of Product & Head of AI at HubSpot, explains how AI-assisted teams are already changing that—and what happens to teams that don’t adapt. In this episode you’ll learn: ➤ How AI is cutting wasted sales time and turning calls into structured insights. ➤ Why “AI Engine Optimization” (AEO) matters more than SEO for visibility in an LLM-driven world. ➤ How “vibe marketing” moves from messy brainstorm to campaign, asset, and one-to-one personalization. ➤ Why every individual needs an AI assistant, and every team needs its first agent, within 12–18 months. ➤ The risks of treating AI as optional instead of rethinking how your team works. If you’ve wondered how marketing, sales, and product roles will actually change in the next two years, this conversation makes it concrete. —------- This is episode 42 of the Design of AI Podcast. Follow us on Substack and LinkedIn to get even more AI product strategy content. And please make sure to rate this podcast if you find it valuable. Your podcast ratings and comments are the best way to influence which topics we cover in future episodes. —---------- Remember that on September 18 we’re hosting an AI Product Strategy Workshop online. MIT recently published a study showing that 95% of AI projects are failing.They’re spending without a strategy and building before they know what customers actually want. Join this workshop on September 18th to build out a vision, strategy and plan that will succeed for your business. Register at https://designof.ai/workshop & https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/ai-product-strategy-workshop-tickets-1560702245429 —----- This episode was hosted by: Arpy Dragffy Guerrero (Founder & Principal Strategist PH1 Research) ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/adragffy/⁠ And if you want more AI strategy & research content, subscribe to our substack newsletter at ⁠https://designofai.substack.com/⁠ This episode is brought to you by PH1 Research, a research & strategy consultancy specialized in mapping the future of your business & product. Get more info at ⁠PH1.ca⁠ Follow us here: ⁠⁠Spotify⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠ ⁠YouTube⁠⁠ About our guest: Nicholas Holland is Head of AI at HubSpot where he oversees product strategy, development, and adoption of Breeze, HubSpot's AI that powers the entire customer platform. Breeze combines a unified data foundation, AI-powered tools, digital workers (agents), and embedded workflows to help businesses become AI-first. Previously, Nicholas led HubSpot’s marketing products, growing them from ~$400M to $1.4B. HubSpot recently Launched ⁠Breeze⁠, their new AI Assistant

46분

8월 27일

41. Vibe Coding Will Disrupt Product — Base44’s Path to $80M Within 6 Months

It took 30 years to build and design an easy-to-use internet. But it took Vibe Coding one year to challenge the foundations of the internet. We’re entering an era where you can build websites and apps by talking to an AI agent and they take care of the front end and back end. Today we’re speaking with Maor Shlomo, the Founder of Base44 – we’re discussing the disruptive potential and gaps of vibe coding. In this episode you’ll learn: ➤ How Maor built Base44 by himself and why Wix acquired it for $80M within 6 months ➤ Disruptions that will transform how we build and use software ➤ Software teams will get much smaller and what this means for specialist roles Our take on this conversation is that Vibe Coding is still in an early phase, offering very inconsistent results. But as Base44, Lovable, V0, Replit and others are proving, this category is innovating at an insanely fast pace and results are improving constantly. We need to take it seriously and believe that small teams will be able to deliver much more. This is bad news for head count and will mean many roles —like product managers and researchers— will merge. This is episode 41 of the Design of AI Podcast. We provide strategies to ensure your AI product succeeds. Follow us on Substack and LinkedIn to get even more AI product strategy content. And another important update. We’ve been getting a lot of messages from product teams. They’re getting pushed to build AI products without a clear strategy. They’re being asked to use AI as a secret weapon to gain a competitive advantage. Join us on Thursday September 18 for an online AI product strategy workshop led by my co-host, Arpy Dragffy and Brittany Hobbs. You’ll learn the best steps to identify, ideate, and test AI products. This workshop will be small and extremely hands-on. We’ll focus on how to leverage AI to enhance an existing app or website, as well as how to pinpoint an industry-defining net-new product. This workshop will happen on September 18 Register at https://designof.ai/workshop & https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/ai-product-strategy-workshop-tickets-1560702245429 And please make sure to rate this podcast if you find it valuable. Your podcast ratings and comments are the best way to influence which topics we cover in future episodes. This episode was hosted by: Arpy Dragffy Guerrero (Founder & Principal Strategist PH1 Research) ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/adragffy/⁠ And if you want more AI strategy & research content, subscribe to our substack newsletter at ⁠https://designofai.substack.com/⁠ Join the conversation on LinkedIn in our group. This episode is brought to you by PH1 Research, a research & strategy consultancy specialized in mapping the future of your business & product. Get more info at ⁠PH1.ca⁠ Follow us here: ⁠⁠Spotify⁠ https://open.spotify.com/show/3O11vQKPpKI5ZlJhdRGwnf⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠ ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/design-of-ai-product-strategy-innovation-career-growth/id1734499859⁠ ⁠ YouTube⁠⁠ ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@DesignofAI⁠

41분

8월 6일

40. Secrets to Successful Agents: Atlassian’s Strategy for Success

There’s no denying that AI agents will transform work, but there’s no roadmap for how to design successful agents. Jamil Valliani, Atlassian’s VP & Head of Product AI, joins us to share his secrets for building AI products in one of the most respected ecosystems in tech —Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Trello, and more. He also spent 15 years leading products a Microsoft. In this episode you’ll learn: ➤ Which types of problems to focus on ➤ Measuring the effectiveness of your AI product ➤ AI capabilities features that will define the future of work ➤ How to compete as a founder and small startup This episode offers strategic and practical advice for product managers, designers, researchers, and founders who are embarking on creating successful AI products. Jamil Valliani is a 20-year Search and AI industry veteran based in Seattle. As Head of Product for AI, he is focused on delivering transformative ways for teams to work using the power of Search and AI. Before Atlassian, Jamil built his career at Microsoft. He spent over 15 years leading product teams such as Bing Image Search and Video Search, among the first to use computer vision and other deep learning techniques to deliver industry-leading multimedia search experiences. He also led a three-year effort that landed many new AI features across Microsoft products, including Outlook, Teams, Windows, and Surface. He also founded Microsoft's Services Marketplace business. Follow him on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamil-valliani-b131881/ And make sure to check out Atlassian’s new AI-powered teamwork agent, Rovo https://www.atlassian.com/software/rovo This is episode 40 of the Design of AI Podcast. We provide practical strategies to ensure your AI product succeeds. Follow us on Substack and LinkedIn to get even more AI product strategy content. And another important update. We’ve been getting a lot of messages from product teams. They’re getting pushed to build AI products without a clear strategy. They’re being asked to use AI as a secret weapon to gain a competitive advantage. Join us on Thursday September 18 for an online AI product strategy workshop led by my co-host, Arpy Dragffy and myself. You’ll learn the best steps to identify, ideate, and test AI products. This workshop will be small and extremely hands-on. We’ll focus on how to leverage AI to enhance an existing app or website, as well as how to define an industry-defining net-new product. This workshop will happen on September 18 Register at https://designof.ai/workshop This episode was brought to you by PH1 Research, specialized in rapid research to improve product decisions about your next AI release. Validate use cases, test concepts, prove monetization opportunities. This episode was hosted by Brittany Hobbs https://www.linkedin.com/in/brittanyhobbs/ Arpy Dragffy Guerrero https://www.linkedin.com/in/adragffy/

48분

7월 11일

39. The Intelligence Layer That Unlocks Your Business' Biggest Problems [Jochem van der Veer, TheyDo]

Your biggest business problems are hiding in plain sight—scattered across customer service calls, survey responses, app store reviews, and sales conversations. Our guest is Jochem van der Veer, CEO of TheyDo, reveals how organizations can unlock their biggest problems by using AI to connect data sources that were previously unimaginable. In this episode you’ll learn how to: ➤ Unlock the power of your customer data and insights ➤ Use journey maps in innovative ways ➤ Create an intelligence layer to make product decisions Timestamps:01:20 Guest Introduction02:04 The Journey Mapping Evolution02:47 Building the CX Tool03:37 Challenges in Journey Mapping05:04 AI-Powered Journey Management07:08 Real-World Applications and Insights08:46 The Future of Journey Management13:23 Data Quality and AI Decision Making20:06 Practical Examples and Use Cases21:58 Identifying Customer Pain Points22:28 Evaluating Data Sources and Relevance24:51 Addressing Silos in Organizations27:23 Future of User Research and Insights32:15 Dynamic Personas and Adaptive Campaigns36:39 Quantifying Qualitative Insights40:01 Exciting AI Platforms and Tools Jochem van der Veer is the Co-Founder and CEO of TheyDo, a leading platform for journey management that helps organisations build seamless customer experiences by aligning teams around the customer journey. With a background in design thinking and innovation, Jochem has dedicated his career to helping businesses scale customer-centric strategies. Under his leadership, TheyDo has empowered global brands to move from siloed operations to collaborative, journey-driven workflows that drive better decision-making and growth. Passionate about design, systems thinking, and the future of work, Jochem is a frequent speaker on the intersection of customer experience and business strategy. He’s also the host of the Experience Edge Podcast, a great resource to learn about how to improve product & customer experience. This episode was hosted by: Arpy Dragffy Guerrero (Founder & Principal Strategist PH1 Research) ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/adragffy/⁠ Brittany Hobbs (VP Insights, Huge) ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/brittanyhobbs/⁠ And if you want more AI strategy & research content, subscribe to our substack newsletter at ⁠https://designofai.substack.com/⁠ This episode is brought to you by PH1 Research, a research & strategy consultancy specialized in AI product strategy & concept testing. Get more info at ⁠PH1.ca⁠ Follow us here: ⁠⁠Spotify⁠ https://open.spotify.com/show/3O11vQKPpKI5ZlJhdRGwnf⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠ ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/design-of-ai-product-strategy-innovation-career-growth/id1734499859⁠ ⁠ YouTube⁠⁠ ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@DesignofAI⁠

42분

6월 25일

38. Co-Designing the Future of AI Products [Savannah Kunovsky, IDEO]

Product teams are under pressure to deliver value from AI immediately and most are failing to achieve monetization. But when large enterprises want to deliver industry-changing products, they go to IDEO, the most prestigious design consultancy in the world. Our guest is Savannah Kunovsky, Managing Director of IDEO’s Emerging Technology Lab. Savannah brings businesses from today’s realities to the worlds we’ll live in next. In this episode you’ll learn: ➤ IDEO’s approach to leading the most challenging innovation projects ➤ How to increase the likelihood of your AI product’s success ➤ The power of identifying audiences for your product ➤ Importance of unlocking AI’s intelligence AND human potential ➤ How artists are leading our envisioning about the future of AI This episode is the perfect inspiration for designers, product managers, researchers, and founders who want to deliver transformative experiences. ------- Thank you for listening to the Design of AI podcast. We provide secrets for building AI products that customers value. If you have guests you want to recommend or need help with your product, contact us ⁠info@designof.ai⁠ Remember to follow us on your fave podcasting app. It also really helps us if you leave reviews. —---------- If you value his type of product & career advice follow our Substack newsletter This episode was brought to you by PH1 Research specialized in rapid research to improve product decisions about your next AI release. Validate use cases, test concepts, prove monetization opportunities. Email info@ph1.ca and mention the Design of AI podcast to get a 15% discount. ------- This episode was hosted by: Arpy Dragffy Guerrero (Founder & Principal Strategist PH1 Research) ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/adragffy/⁠ And if you want more AI strategy & research content, subscribe to our substack newsletter at ⁠https://designofai.substack.com/⁠ Follow us here: ⁠⁠Spotify⁠ https://open.spotify.com/show/3O11vQKPpKI5ZlJhdRGwnf ⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠ ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/design-of-ai-product-strategy-innovation-career-growth/id1734499859⁠ ⁠YouTube⁠⁠ ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@DesignofAI⁠

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6월 17일

37. Emotional AI will Transform Sales, Support & Training [Paula Petcu, Interhuman AI]

What if AI had emotional intelligence? What if it could interpret our non-verbal cues? Try to use a chat bot and all of this sounds far-fetched right now, but there are startups and researchers developing specialized models that add emotional intelligence to AI-powered products. In this episode we had a discussion with the founder of Interhuman AI about use cases and possibilities of this new intelligence layer. She believes that it will transform every business’ ability to deliver sales and support products that are finally impactful. Also, that emotional intelligence capabilities will transform how employees are trained and get ongoing feedback. In this episode, you'll learn: ➤ Why the next frontier of AI will be interpreting human behaviour ➤ The possibilities & use cases of emotional AI technologies ➤ The importance of building specialized models in a world dominated by OpenAI, Google, Meta, and Anthropic Our guest is Paula Petcu, CEO and co-founder of Interhuman AI. Interhuman AI develops the social intelligence layer for AI applications. She has been working at the intersection of health and technology for the past 10 years. https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulapetcu/ Thank you for listening to the Design of AI podcast. We provide secrets for how to build AI products that customers value. Please follow us on your favorite podcasting apps and make sure to leave a review if you like this type of product & career advice. This episode was brought to you by PH1 Research, specialized in rapid research to improve product decisions about your next AI release. Validate use cases, test concepts, prove monetization opportunities. This episode was hosted by Brittany Hobbs https://www.linkedin.com/in/brittanyhobbs/ Arpy Dragffy Guerrero https://www.linkedin.com/in/adragffy/

50분

6월 10일

36. Apple's Intelligence Shocks AI and How to Harness Power of Deep Research

What does it mean when the largest consumer tech company in the world says AI isn't so intelligent after all? Over the last week Apple has dominated AI headlines and not for the reason you'd expect. Their research team released a paper called "The Illusion of Thinking." (Authors: Parshin Shojaee, Iman Mirzadeh, Keivan Alizadeh, Maxwell Horton, Samy Bengio, Mehrdad Farajtabar) This quote from Gary Marcus' newsletter sums it best: "What the Apple paper shows, most fundamentally, regardless of how you define AGI, is that LLMs are no substitute for good well-specified conventional algorithms. (They also can’t play chess as well as conventional algorithms, can’t fold proteins like special-purpose neurosymbolic hybrids, can’t run databases as well as conventional databases, etc.) In the best case (not always reached) they can write python code, supplementing their own weaknesses with outside symbolic code, but even this is not reliable. What this means for business and society is that you can’t simply drop o3 or Claude into some complex problem and expect it to work reliably." This was then followed by Apple's developer event this week where Apple continued to under-deliver on market expectations of AI releases in iOS and beyond. In this episode we explore what it means for builders and business users of AI that Apple is playing the spoiler role compared to OpenAI and Google's role as hypers of GAI. We present a path forward for leveraging the increasing task accuracy and task accuracy of the latest LLMs. And we discuss the risk of the illusion of reasoning within LLMs as it relates to employers looking to reduce headcount. ------- Thank you for listening to the Design of AI podcast. We provide secrets for building AI products that customers value. If you have guests you want to recommend or need help with your product, contact us info@designof.ai Remember to follow us on your fave podcasting app. It also really helps us if you leave reviews. —---------- This episode was hosted by: Arpy Dragffy Guerrero (Founder & Principal Strategist PH1 Research) https://www.linkedin.com/in/adragffy/ Brittany Hobbs (VP Insights, Huge) https://www.linkedin.com/in/brittanyhobbs/ And if you want more AI strategy & research content, subscribe to our substack newsletter at https://designofai.substack.com/ This episode is brought to you by PH1 Research, a research & strategy consultancy specialized in mapping the future of your business & product. Get more info at PH1.ca Follow us here: ⁠Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3O11vQKPpKI5ZlJhdRGwnf ⁠Apple Podcasts⁠ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/design-of-ai-product-strategy-innovation-career-growth/id1734499859 YouTube⁠ https://www.youtube.com/@DesignofAI

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Design of AI | Build Products that Customers & Businesses Value

43. Play Unlocks the Next Billion‑Dollar AI Market [Michelle Lee, IDEO]

42. HubSpot’s Head of AI on How AI Rewrites Customer Acquisition & Marketing

41. Vibe Coding Will Disrupt Product — Base44’s Path to $80M Within 6 Months

40. Secrets to Successful Agents: Atlassian’s Strategy for Success

39. The Intelligence Layer That Unlocks Your Business' Biggest Problems [Jochem van der Veer, TheyDo]

38. Co-Designing the Future of AI Products [Savannah Kunovsky, IDEO]

37. Emotional AI will Transform Sales, Support & Training [Paula Petcu, Interhuman AI]

36. Apple's Intelligence Shocks AI and How to Harness Power of Deep Research

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42. HubSpot’s Head of AI on How AI Rewrites Customer Acquisition & Marketing

41. Vibe Coding Will Disrupt Product — Base44’s Path to $80M Within 6 Months

40. Secrets to Successful Agents: Atlassian’s Strategy for Success

39. The Intelligence Layer That Unlocks Your Business' Biggest Problems [Jochem van der Veer, TheyDo]

38. Co-Designing the Future of AI Products [Savannah Kunovsky, IDEO]

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