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Better, Not More: Design in the New Practice

Hosted by Luna Wei and Xinran Ma

212 students

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What you'll learn

Use AI to raise design quality, not just output volume

Learn a practical 3-phase workflow (grounding, reasoning, prototyping) to expand exploration breadth and depth.

Keep human judgment at the center of faster workflows

Understand where AI helps most, where it misleads, and how to avoid idea overload and plausible-but-weak directions.

Adapt to the new design practice in big tech

See tighter designer-engineer loops, new design artifacts, and a move from static deliverables toward interactive ones.

Why this topic matters

Designing for new domains takes time to ramp up. This talk introduces a practical AI-powered workflow that helps designers consolidate knowledge, reason faster, and prototype in parallel—turning 30 minutes of sequential exploration into 5 minutes of multi-option output, and increasing design exploration efficiency by up to 10X.

You'll learn from

Luna Wei

Product Designer at a FAANG company

Luna Wei is a product designer at a FAANG company, where she works on AI-powered data center systems and large-scale tools. Her work focuses on designing complex, ambiguous systems and turning them into clear, operable workflows through strong problem framing.

Previously, she led design for enterprise platforms in the B2B space, giving her a deep perspective on systems thinking, scale, and decision-making.


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Xinran Ma

Founder of Design with AI | 3x Author | Startup Advisor

Xinran Ma is the founder and author of Design with AI, speaker, and award-winning designer.

Design with AI is one of the fastest-growing AI communities with over 20K subscribers from companies like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and McKinsey.

Xinran has also written multiple Amazon #1 New Release books in UX and teaches a popular course on Maven: AI for Product Designers.

He regularly delivers lectures and conducts AI workshops at places such as Microsoft, Columbia Business School, UXPA, the City of Vancouver, Workday, and Pratt Institute. One of his lightning sessions is the most watched design classes on Maven with about 7K signups.


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AI for Product Designers
Xinran Ma
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