Future of UX | Your Design, Tech and User Experience Podcast | AI Design · Patricia Reiners

#136 The Big Shifts in UX, AI & Tech 2025

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AI agents didn't just get faster at small tasks—they started finishing whole workflows.

The year feels wild, and Patricia starts there. She has that end-of-year pileup of notes, projects, articles, and conversations, then uses it to sort what actually changed design, building, research, and collaboration. She keeps the pace quick instead of trying to recap every update. The useful stuff wins. Vibe coding gets the spotlight. Patricia describes a world where a strong conversation can turn into an onboarding flow or a working app, even without Figma, engineering, or design skills. That part clearly excites her. Still, she is not treating it like magic prompting. Her point is that design background, empathy, and a sharp sense of the problem still make the output better. Speed changes the work. Ideas can move from thought to test in hours, especially in workshops, innovation projects, and AI projects. Her caution is simple: random prompting is not the skill. The leverage comes from prompts, judgment, flows, and narrative. Designers are still relevant, but the job moves away from pure picture placing and toward meaning, strategy, and experience. Founders, marketers, researchers, and product people are in the mix too, because they can spin up experiments without waiting on the usual handoffs. Patricia closes by pointing to the shifts most likely to carry into 2026, giving listeners a quick catch-up on what mattered.

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A brisk 2025 recap that links vibe coding to faster prototyping and design strategy.

Patricia frames this year-end episode as a tidy look back at the shifts she thinks mattered most in 2025, moving between design, building, research, and collaboration without losing the thread.

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You want the biggest 2025 UX and AI shifts without wading through every headline.

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