"AI isn't a co-pilot (yet); it's more like a smart, eager intern.One with access to a lot of information, good recall, fast execution, but no context. That mindset defined how she approached every interaction with AI: not as magic, but as management. Don't trust; guide, coach, and always verify.Like any intern, AI needs coaching and supervision, and that's where her designerly skills kicked in."
"Prompting is part creative brief, and part conversation design, just with an AI instead of a person.When you prompt an AI, you're not just giving instructions, but designing how it responds, behaves, and outputs information. If AI is like an intern, then the prompt is your creative brief that frames the task, sets the tone, and clarifies what good looks like. It's also your conversation script that guides how it responds, how the interaction flows, and how ambiguity is handled."
A weeklong AI-augmented design sprint produced three realizations. AI functions like a smart, eager intern with broad information, strong recall, and fast execution but lacks context. Collaboration requires managing AI outputs like an intern: guide, coach, and verify. Designer skills—curiosity, observation, empathy, and critical thinking—help identify bias, humanize outputs, and correct errors. Prompting combines creative briefing and conversation design to frame tasks, set tone, clarify success criteria, and script interaction flows. Prompts structure how AI responds, handles ambiguity, and behaves. Designers can apply interaction design mindsets to craft prompts and supervise AI-driven work.
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