AI & Design Panel
Thais Santos and Zak Allal on AI in design workflows, automotive UI, and language-learning tools
Source: YouTube , Frontend Finland 2024
About this Panel
At Frontend Finland 2024, Thais Santos and Zak Allal sit down for a cross-disciplinary conversation on what AI is actually doing to design work, not the hype-cycle version, but the practical day-to-day changes in how designers research, prototype, and ship.
Topics Discussed
AI in design workflows
Where generative tools genuinely accelerate design, and where they create new kinds of debt that teams end up paying for downstream.
Measuring design success
How to define "good design" in a way that survives contact with product metrics, and why most dashboards miss the point.
Automotive UI and language-learning tools
Thais draws from automotive interface work, where attention and safety are non-negotiable constraints. Zak draws from building Finnish Companion, where pedagogy and UX collide. Two very different domains, surprisingly similar design lessons.