Talk

Designing in the Awkward Middle

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There's a moment in every AI-assisted design session when the tool stops feeling like a tool and starts feeling like a collaborator. Most designers don't know what to do with that. This talk is about what happens in between — not the hype, not the fear, but the awkward, generative middle.

The framing that changed everything

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What awkward actually means

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Key ideas from the talk
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What I'm still figuring out

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