Using AI to Challenge Your Own Design Assumptions

4 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief segment, the speaker explains how they have begun to use the AI assistant Claude as a proactive partner in their design workflow. Rather than merely automating repetitive tasks, they prompt Claude to generate questions they should consider before proceeding with a design decision. The AI‑generated questions serve as a sounding board, prompting the designer to add missing elements, reconsider approaches, and avoid falling into habitual patterns. This reflective prompting technique is presented as a practical way to expand thinking, surface blind spots, and keep design work fresh and critical.

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a lot of times we're looking at this to solve and automate things that we've done, but also using it to ask more questions of yourself when you're doing different design work. That's something that I've recently been doing a little bit more of is, is using Claude as sort of like, hey, if you were going to go do this, what are some questions that you would ask me to give you the correct answer for this? And then using that as a prompt for me then to think through, oh, okay, well maybe I should add this, or maybe I should consider this, or maybe I should do something like this. And that's been really useful as like kind of a sounding board almost, or just to expand your thinking a little bit. 'Cause sometimes we get trapped into our repeatable patterns that we've done and it's always good to kind of push ourselves a little bit.