AI DesignClaude
Learning AI Design with Claude: A Designer's Starter Kit
How to get from zero to shipping AI-assisted design work using Claude as your daily thinking partner.
Hiram Barsky
7 min read
UX Design & AI Insights
Expert insights on AI-enhanced UX design, accessibility compliance, and conversion optimization from the field.
Prompt EngineeringAI Design
Prompt Engineering for Designers: From Brief to Pixel
Prompts are the new design brief. Here is the structure that consistently turns a vague ask into usable output.
Hiram Barsky
6 min read
AI UXInterface Design
Designing AI-Native Interfaces: Patterns Beyond the Chatbox
The chat bubble is the iframe of the AI era — useful, lazy, and rarely the right answer.
Hiram Barsky
8 min read
AI ToolsComparison
ChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini for UX Workflows
I ran the same week of design work through all three. Here is where each one actually pulled its weight.
Hiram Barsky
7 min read
PrototypingAI
Building Your First AI-Powered Prototype in a Weekend
A two-day plan to go from idea to a working AI prototype your users can actually click through.
Hiram Barsky
9 min read
AI TrustUX Patterns
Designing Trust into AI: Handling Hallucinations and Uncertainty
Users do not lose trust when AI is wrong. They lose trust when it is wrong and pretends to be sure.
Hiram Barsky
5 min read
WorkflowFigma
From Figma to Production with AI: A Modern Designer's Stack
The handoff is dead. Here is the AI-assisted stack I use to ship designs straight into a live React app.
Hiram Barsky
8 min read
EnterpriseInformation Architecture
A Filter Nobody Opens Isn't a Feature
Some content is global, some is regional. Putting that in a filter menu means the one person who most needs it never sees it, because they never opened the menu.
Hiram Barsky
4 min read
AIProduct Design
The Work Is Deleting, Not Generating
AI made producing screens almost free. That moved the bottleneck from making things to deciding which ones to throw away, and no model will do that part for you.
Hiram Barsky
5 min read
Product DesignTrust & Safety
When Trust Is the Product, It Can't Be a Feature
Getting two strangers to agree to meet at a park is easy. Getting them to feel fine about it's the entire product, and it's not something you bolt on near the end.
Hiram Barsky
5 min read
Product DesignFintech UX
If You Make People Do Maths, They Guess or They Leave
A price of 67¢ tells you the odds are 67%. Almost nobody works that out in their head, and the ones who try get it wrong. Do the arithmetic for them.
Hiram Barsky
4 min read
Enterprise UXProduct Design
Finding the Data Is Half the Job
An analyst searches for revenue and gets forty results. The search worked. The next twenty minutes, deciding which table to trust, is the part nobody designed.
Hiram Barsky
5 min read
Trust & SafetyProduct Design
Verification Is a Door, Not a Sticker
Most directories let anyone list, then put a badge on whoever checked out. Flipping that, nobody is visible until they're verified, gives you a smaller catalogue and a far more honest one.
Hiram Barsky
5 min read
Enterprise UXFintech UX
You Don't Replace Excel by Being Better Than Excel
A bank was running multi-million-dollar loan deals in spreadsheets. The software that replaces that has to lose to Excel on flexibility and win on the thing Excel can't do at all.
Hiram Barsky
5 min read
Fintech UXProduct Design
Beginner or Pro Is a False Choice, and Both Sides Pay for It
Easy apps hide complexity and charge for it. Pro apps expose everything and assume confidence you may not have. The split is a business decision dressed up as a design one.
Hiram Barsky
4 min read
AISolo Building
A To-Do App Doesn't Prove Anything
Most “I built this with AI” portfolios pick something safe. Safe projects hide the only question worth answering: can you ship something that has to feel right?
Hiram Barsky
4 min read
AIEnterprise UX
In Regulated Work, Design for the Gates — Not the AI
A pharma email takes two weeks and touches five teams in five tools. The AI's job is the work between the humans. The work the humans are legally required to do stays with them.
Hiram Barsky
5 min read
Product DesignShipping
I Just Wanted to Send Someone a Video
Recording your screen is free. Sending it to someone is what everybody charges for, with watermarks, five-minute caps, and a sign-in wall in front of the person you sent it to.
Hiram Barsky
5 min read
AIShipping
The Demo Works. Shipping Is a Different Job.
A demo is the happy path with data you chose. Everything that made my products hard was in the part nobody demos: dates, permissions, empty screens, and the jobs that run while you sleep.
Hiram Barsky
6 min read
AISolo Building
What One Person Can Actually Ship Now
I have four products live that I built by myself. The useful version of that story is the one that includes where solo stops working, which is not where people expect.
Hiram Barsky
5 min read
AIEngineering
Two Bugs AI Wrote That I Had to Find Myself
Both came out of Stips, both looked perfectly correct, and neither was something the model could have caught on its own. One was about time. One was about permissions.
Hiram Barsky
4 min read
Product DesignTrust
Designing for Trust When the Product Is the Risk
Most software fails softly. Some of it fails into someone's health, money, or safety. When being wrong has consequences, trust stops being a layer and becomes the product.
Hiram Barsky
4 min read
EnterpriseProduct Design
Why Enterprise Tools Lose to Excel
Your real competitor is not the other vendor in the bake-off. It is a spreadsheet one person built, everyone trusts, and nobody can be forced to abandon.
Hiram Barsky
4 min read
AICraft
When Generating Is Free, Taste Is the Whole Job
Producing options was never the bottleneck. Ring-Rival got good because I deleted things a model would have been happy to keep building.
Hiram Barsky
5 min read
Product DesignAI
Scope Discipline When Building Is Cheap
Engineering cost used to do your prioritization for you. It stopped. Deciding what not to ship is now the only constraint holding a product together.
Hiram Barsky
4 min read
HiringCareer
How to Interview a Designer Now
Every portfolio is polished and every candidate has a shipped demo. What I would ask to find out whether there is judgment behind the artifacts.
Hiram Barsky
4 min read
CareerAI
The Designer Who Codes Argument Is Over
Not because everyone won the debate, but because the gap between a design and a running product collapsed. Here's what that changes in practice.
Hiram Barsky
4 min read
CareerHiring
Shipping Got Cheap. Hiring Got Harder.
A working demo used to be evidence. Now anyone can produce one in a weekend, and the design job market is still figuring out what to screen for instead.
Hiram Barsky
4 min read
PortfolioCareer
Everyone's Portfolio Looks Good Now
Polish stopped being a signal the moment it became free. What's left is the stuff a model can't produce for you: constraints, deletions, and decisions you can defend.
Hiram Barsky
4 min read
AIProduct Design
What AI Changed About Design Work, and What It Didn't
Two years of building products solo with AI. The changes are real and specific, and so is the list of things that are exactly as hard as they always were.
Hiram Barsky
4 min read
UX DesignCareer
Finding a UX Job in 2025 – What Works (and What Doesn't)
Lessons from breaking into UX in a crowded market — mistakes, pivots, and strategies that actually work today.
Hiram Barsky
7 min read
Design SystemsTeam Collaboration
Building Design Systems That Actually Get Used (Not Shelved)
I've seen more design systems die in Figma libraries than I care to count. Here's how to build ones that actually get used.
Hiram Barsky
8 min read
PortfolioUX Design
Case Studies That Win Clients – Beyond Pretty Screens
Why design case studies should focus on problems, impact, and thought process — not wireframe montages.
Hiram Barsky
6 min read
AIUX Design
How AI Is Changing UX Design – A Designer's Perspective
Practical insights on where AI helps and where it confuses users — and how to design with trust in mind.
Hiram Barsky
9 min read
User ResearchBudget
User Research on a Shoestring Budget: Maximum Impact, Minimum Cost
We don't have budget for user research is the most expensive sentence in product development. Here's how to get valuable user insights without breaking the bank.
Hiram Barsky
7 min read
Visual DesignPsychology
From Wireframes to Wow: The Psychology of Visual Hierarchy
Good visual hierarchy is invisible. Users don't notice it - they just effortlessly flow through your interface. Here's how to master the psychology behind intuitive designs.
Hiram Barsky
8 min read
Product DesignMarketing
From Zero to Launch: Shipping a Product with Placeholder Data and No Marketing Budget
As a solo product designer, it's easy to get caught in the loop of building, tweaking, and endlessly polishing. Here's how I broke that cycle.
Hiram Barsky
8 min read
Product DevelopmentLessons Learned
What I Learned Building Products Nobody Asked For
Five years of building side projects taught me more about product design than any course or certification ever could. Here's what I wish I knew earlier.
Hiram Barsky
6 min read
Conversion OptimizationUX Design
Why Your Beautiful Interface Doesn't Convert
A gorgeous design that doesn't drive user action is just expensive decoration. Here's how to design interfaces that actually get results.
Hiram Barsky
9 min read
User ResearchProduct Development
How to Research When You Don't Have Users Yet
Building something new? Here's how to do meaningful user research before you have actual users to talk to.
Hiram Barsky
8 min read