Product Design for the AI-Native Product

So far, in Part 2 of this book, we’ve covered a lot of areas as they pertain to building and maintaining an AI-native product. But we still haven’t covered product design and the extent to which PMs should be well versed in design. In this chapter, we aim to do just that: understand the design elements that best set up a native AI product for success. We will go into design principles and the priority levels that are important to building any product, and we will home in on which of these elements will be important to focus on when you’re setting out to build an AI product natively from the ground up.

Often, when we discuss the rise of AI, we imagine a world where a number of human tasks will be automated. This has left a lot of people wondering where our place as humans will fall among all the technological advancement that’s been going on, particularly in recent years. Not all product designers will know how...