Designing AI products is designing a relationship
Dec 18, 2025
AI
Design
With AI products, the job is no longer “design the UI” but rather “design the relationship between a human and a synthetic collaborator.”
AI truly becomes useful when it has context about you: Your docs, your calendar, your voice, your workflow.
In this new world, trust becomes the most important metric. Without it, AI solutions don't land.
And if we design for intimacy without consent, things can rapidly go south. It's a tight balance.
AI changes the responsibility.
We aren't just designing software for humans anymore.
We're designing the meeting place.