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Stop AI Vibing & Start Spec-Driven Designing with Claude

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Hosted by Alex M. Chong

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What you'll learn

Break the habits that come from treating AI as a chatbot

Recognize the chatbot reflexes that keep you re-explaining yourself, and learn what to do instead.

Pilot AI instead of babysitting it

Specify the workflow and the parameters AI works inside, so you're directing the work rather than guessing if it lands.

Build AI its own workspace, not another chat window

Design an agent that carries your methodology — gating stages, producing documentation, driving the work forward.

Thrive as a designer while everyone becomes technicians

Turn systems thinking into your advantage: build AI systems you pilot, instead of chasing the next tool.

Why this topic matters

Designers are using AI every day and it still isn't giving them what they want. Close, but not right, so you re-explain, re-prompt, and end up re-doing it yourself. This isn't a prompting problem, it's that you're chatting with AI instead of piloting it. This session reveals the bad habits behind that gap, what piloting actually looks like, and why designers are better equipped for it than anyone as existing systems thinkers.

You'll learn from

Alex M. Chong

Director of UX Design, UX Practice Advisor & Career Coach

Alex M. Chong is a UX Design Director, Practice Advisor & Career Coach who is tracking the signals of what comes next in our post-AI world, as we enter UX 2.0.

UX 2.0 is our post-AI world where designers operate as strategic operators: piloting AI within spec-driven development environments, rather than reacting as specification managers and technicians producing deliverables downstream.

13+ years across agencies, product orgs, education, and coaching. He's helped senior designers revisit their spark and reposition for roles using the same spec-driven workflow he runs inside product teams. Most recently Director of UX at Hudson's Bay.

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Spec-Driven AI for UX Designers: from Vibe to AI Pilot
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