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AI Tests Your UX: Ready for the Challenge? đź‘€

Published 3 days ago • 2 min read

AI isn’t replacing UX. It’s exposing it 👀

What founders told me about their onboarding flows and why smart AI will spotlight broken UX before it ever fixes it.

Hi everybody,

This week I spoke to two founders scaling onboarding with AI. Both excited about the potential, but both frustrated by one thing: Their users were getting stuck.

The tools worked. The intelligence was there.

But the experience? Confusing.

This is the big unlock:

AI doesn’t replace your UX — it stress-tests it.

AI surfaces bad flows, poor content and missing feedback loops. It forces teams to design for ambiguity, edge cases and human/machine collaboration.

If your UX isn’t tight, AI will make that more obvious, not less.

The winners in this next wave aren’t the ones who just add AI…

They’re the ones who rethink how we interact with it.

đź”— Signals This Week

1. I Tried Lovable and Loved It!​

After Cursor, that I mentioned in the last issue, I wanted to try Loveable (and especially after listening to Anton Osika talk about it on Lenny's Podcast.

Actually, upon listening to that episode, I immediately cancelled Cursor and my coding course. That's how convinced I was that Loveable has solved some key issues here:

  1. Lovable doesn't even show you a code editor - it's prompt, edit, build.
  2. In browser ease - you can even spin up a Supabase from the editor.
  3. Domains, Github integration - what's not to love?
  4. The designers may hate this - no need to fire up Figma.

My take:

  • This isn't just prototyping. This is early product, possibly all-product lifecycle tooling.
  • Lovable are now spending time on how they can be useful in existing environments (super useful in Enterprise or Legacy systems).
  • You really have to try this one to believe it!
  • It's making the web exciting once more (for me)!

​Check out Lovable today!​

​2. Superhuman's Secret to Success​

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It's not the most recent episode, but I thoroughly enjoyed this Lenny's Podcast episode with Rahul Vohra, founder and CEO of Superhuman (the email app).

My take:

  • Rahul's speaks in a super intellectual and relaxing way
  • There's a formula to Product Market Fit - listen and find out what it is!
  • Following the pack, even when building your board, can get you into trouble - get better references and find what works for you

​Listen on Spotify or watch the video on YouTube.

​3. Everything Is a Product – Even Your Org Chart​

Had to include this from my LinkedIn roundup. This is the way I approach everything. Jeff Patton reframes how we define "product." It’s not features, it’s outcomes.

My take:

  • A brilliant reminder that internal tools, hiring systems and even job roles should be built with product thinking.
  • Just like with using the term "UX," if you replace "Product" with "Business," you may start to see the striking overlap.

​Read the Article​

đź’ˇ Build On This

I’ve been experimenting with Claude and Gemini for building first-draft strategy briefs. The catch? They need context like crazy.

Here’s what’s worked:

  • I give them an “assumption grid” (what we know, what we’re guessing, what’s risky).
  • Then prompt them to stress-test our strategy from the user’s POV.

It’s still messy, but way faster than starting from a blank page. Maybe give it a go?

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