# How AI Tools Reshape the UX Design Process

DevFeed: [How AI Tools Reshape the UX Design Process](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/and-just-like-that-i-was-ai-enabled-35063.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://medium.com/gumgum-tech/and-just-like-that-i-was-ai-enabled-fce5011aa87d?source=rss----d4c1dee0f87b---4>)

Author: Chris Jones

Published: 2025-07-28T22:49:08Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [GumGum](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/gumgum.md>)

Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [User experience (UX)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ux.md>), [Agile](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/agile.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>)

Tags: [agile](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agile.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [product-design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product-design.md>), [ux](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ux.md>)

## AI overview

A designer reflects on adapting the UX design process to AI tools. The article argues that AI changes how designers handle automatable work while preserving the broader cycle of research, prototyping, testing, and design, and describes using NotebookLM to synthesize interview transcripts during discovery.

## Source excerpt

AI enabled and ready to go! I've spent my career navigating the major shifts in tech and design, tailoring my approach along the way: Web 1.0 and Macromedia Flash, the mobile-first revolution, Agile development, Lean UX, the Double Diamond, and Design Sprints. But then, just like that, with a few new tools, I was AI-enabled. Note, I said tailored. At each stage, the next best thing or new way of working is often discussed as a radical development. However, the impact on the design process is often far less radical. We research, prototype, test, and design; we go broad, then narrow, and sometimes we even go broad again. This stuff takes time to get right (anyone want to rewatch 10 hours of user interviews?) But, as designers, our aim has always been to deliver well-thought-out solutions that approach a challenge with a unique perspective, born out of a desire to be visual in our thinking. Then, along comes AI, all innocent-like, with its polite manners and slightly sycophantic ways. "Work with me," it says. "That's a fantastic idea," it encourages. "Let me make it better for you." FINE! So I've spent the last few months ripping up my design process -- and a few long-held beliefs along the way -- to create an entirely new way of working, which also feels strangely familiar. Familiar because, like all the shifts that came before it, this one is once again forcing me to shed the tasks that can be automated and focus on what makes me human. Here we go. Discovery with AI Don't get me wrong here; I love those users. But let's be honest: the manual synthesis during the discovery phase can be a grind. We write the scripts, find the users, interview each one, watch back the recordings, make notes, lose the will to live, cover a room (or a country-sized MIRO board) in Post-its, benchmark competitors, create themes, and then finally identify and prioritise the key findings. Today? Do the interviews, then drop the transcripts into NotebookLM along with details about the Product, c