Patricia Reiners
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Welcome to „The Future of UX“ - the podcast about the future of UX Design, where we explore how emerging technologies like AI, AR, VR, and the metaverse will impact user experience design. Join Patricia Reiners as they sit down with experts and thought leaders from the world of tech and design to discuss the latest trends, insights, and best practices in the field of UX. From the ethics of AI to the future of user interfaces, we'll dive deep into the topics that matter most to UX designers, developers, and entrepreneurs. Whether you're just starting out Hear you in the...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Patricia makes AI's consequences for design practice legible through pointed interviews, concrete workflow advice, and careful attention to research risk.
Future of UX turns changes in AI into practical questions about how designers research, build, and make product decisions. Patricia moves between guest conversations and solo briefings, keeping the focus on what new tools demand from design practice rather than treating them as…
A thousand screen sizes later, your fixed canvas is the least of your design problems.
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A focused career reset for junior designers learning how AI is changing the path to strong product judgment.
Patricia treats the episode as a practical career check-in for junior designers and others early in the field, with three ideas carrying the argument: become AI native, build product thinking sooner, and keep taste sharp.
A brisk, useful map of five recent AI updates designers should keep on their radar.
Patricia treats the episode as a practical read on five recent AI updates, with a designer's sensibility guiding the way. Rather than lingering on novelty, she keeps returning to workflow, control, transparency, and the parts designers can actually use.
A clear reminder that polished answers can hide the real shape of a user problem.
Patricia Reines sets synthetic users against the rougher grain of real interviews, moving from a Copenhagen conference note to a boat workshop and then into the episode's main point.
A grounded look at UX as human-AI collaboration.
Patricia treats UX as the work of shaping human-AI collaboration, and that is the episode's main strength. It turns a broad future-of-work idea into a practical design question: if AI can generate options, sort research, and take on more of the machinery, what remains distinctly…
A practical AI primer for designers, with current trends tied to everyday work.
Patricia Reiners treats AI as a working tool for designers, not a spectacle. She covers what it is, how it works, prompting, agents, vibe coding, responsible use, and the trends to watch in 2025, then keeps pulling the discussion back to daily practice.
A practical look at how research, prompts, NotebookLM, and Lovable shaped a designer-focused web tool.
Flora, a UX UI designer and illustrator, walks through a practical build with a clear emphasis on process over spectacle. Research, NotebookLM, and Lovable each have a defined role: research shapes the prompts, NotebookLM helps sort findings and surface AI ideas, and the first…
A clear quarterly update on how AI is reshaping UX work.
Patricia treats the quarter as a reset on how AI is changing UX work, and she keeps the focus on what designers can actually use. She moves from personal context - balancing work, motherhood, and a busy creative year - into the shifts she sees now: vibe coding, Adobe and Canva…
A grounded UX take on AI uncertainty, trust, and the design patterns it demands.
The episode keeps its footing by treating AI products as something other than standard software. Its clearest point is that the same input can lead to different outputs, which makes trust, guardrails, explainability, correction, and recovery central rather than optional.
Markets, macro, AI, and crypto in motion.
Daily AI news through the lens of trust, infrastructure, and real-world deployment.
Patricia Reines explores the controversial topic of synthetic users—AI-generated profiles powered by LLMs that can engage in interviews and research activities.
Design skills are the real story.
Happy new year, with a UX trend report.
Patricia treats prompting as a design skill, not a magic trick.
Patricia looks back at a wild 2025 and picks the UX, AI, and tech shifts that actually changed how people design, build, research, and work together.
How do designers keep up?
Flora starts with actual design work.
AI makes building easier; it does not make value automatic.
The host breaks down the often-hidden economics behind the AI tools designers use every day, explaining why AI is incredibly expensive to build and run, which companies are financially healthy (like Figma and Canva) versus those burning cash (like OpenAI and many startups), and what OpenAI's potential IPO signals for the future of design workflows and tool pricing.
In this Halloween special, host Patricia explores the dark side of UX and AI design, examining how dark patterns, unethical AI deployment, and algorithmic bubbles harm users and create ethical dilemmas for designers.
Patricia Reiners opens with a fast tour of what AI means for designers right now.
Patricia explores the McKinsey report on how AI agents and robots are reshaping work partnerships with humans.
A design podcast host explains Claude AI's features for designers, covering skills, connectors, plugins, code, and cowork features.
Host Patricia Reines explores OpenClaw, an AI agent that executes tasks rather than just giving advice, examining its technical function, the resulting shift in UX from conversation to delegation, and the critical design challenges around safety, permissions, and control that arise when software acts autonomously on a user's behalf.
Host Patricia Reines explores OpenAI's new ChatGPT app ecosystem and how it could fundamentally change UX design by making interfaces invisible.
This episode explores generative UI through Google Labs' Disco browser, discussing how interfaces shift from static designs to dynamic, intent-driven systems.
"AI has some lights and darks." Patricia and Julian get into synthetic users by asking the useful, uncomfortable UX question: when is AI helping research, and when is it just giving a team prettier support for what it already wanted to believe?
Host Patricia analyzes the new Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, examining their design philosophy, camera capabilities, AI features, and display technology while highlighting significant privacy concerns, social acceptance challenges, and the search for a killer app.
Everything feels like it is changing.
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