073: When AI Does the Work, What Do We Do?

Join Ephie Risho and Jason Moore as they dig deeper into listener questions on real-world AI concerns—the kind that don’t have clean answers, just real consequences. They get into the tension between AI speed and human judgment, what UX teams are actually worth when AI can spin up flows in seconds, and whether “UX roles” are quietly collapsing into something new. But the core thread running through it all: agentic design. When AI becomes the doer and humans become the overseers, everything shifts—interfaces, metrics, workflows, even what it means to “design” at all. Along the way, they challenge the reliability of synthetic users, question whether we’re measuring the wrong things, and give a clear-eyed take on what mid-career designers should be doing right now if they want to stay in the game. The takeaway isn’t that humans are being replaced—it’s that leadership, taste, and judgment matter more than ever. The tools got faster. The bar just got higher. Ask us anything: [email protected] Media inquiries: [email protected]