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AI-assisted product design: what your design system must enforce

AI has entered product design at both ends of the process and barely touched the middle. Discovery now runs through AI research synthesis and synthetic participants, generation runs through prompt-to-prototype tools, and the design phase between them is the only part of the sequence that produces output that somebody can be held to. That distinction matters because generated design output becomes usable only where a system enforces constraints rather than documenting them, and enforcement is the part that most teams have not built. This article uses a three-zone model, discovery, design, and generation, to locate where AI-assisted product design breaks down inside a funded team.
Mihai Bâlea - 28 Aug 2026
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