We recently kicked off a major initiative to incorporate new AI features into our core Angular modules. I'm currently doing light prototyping in Figma to ideate with our Product Managers, but before I dove too deep into the sandbox, I wanted to make sure I wasn't just guessing at the UX.
To get my head straight, I took a 5-day Smashing Workshop with Vitaly Friedman called Design Patterns For AI Interfaces. It was exactly what I needed. Rather than just giving us a list of standard chatbot visuals, Vitaly presented the latest research on how different companies are choosing to display AI features. He focused heavily on teaching us how to think about these interactions, rather than just spoon-feeding us solutions.
Vitaly kindly provided a Google Doc packed with research links, and I had his slide decks alongside my own notes. Normally, these notes would just sit in a folder, referenced occasionally.
Around the same time, I got access to our enterprise-level Claude coworker workspace. Because this is a fully protected enterprise instance, data privacy is guaranteed—meaning I could safely upload our internal product documentation and proprietary workflows without any data exposure risks.
I decided to put my workshop knowledge to active use by creating a custom Claude Skill within this secure environment. I fed it everything: Vitaly's course materials, the research links, and the PDFs of our core product documentation. I explicitly instructed it to act as a UX reviewer, prioritizing the principles from the workshop and the constraints of our product.
Now, my workflow looks like this:
I build out the initial concept in Figma.
I record a quick screen-capture video walking through the prototype, explaining my logic and the user flow.
I upload that video directly to my secure Claude Skill and ask for a critique.
The results have been incredibly helpful. It acts as a first line of defense, giving me actionable insights and pointing out where my discoverability patterns might fail, all before I go into my review meetings with the Product Managers.
I definitely don't have this entire AI landscape figured out, and my workflows change weekly. But realizing I could transform static workshop education into an automated, highly secure, participating UX reviewer was a major win for me this month.
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