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Hey, UX friends! Happy Tuesday.
If we haven't met yet, my name is Anfisa - senior product designer at MEWS by day. By night, I help UXers to stand out in a crowded market inside the IntoUX Community. Oh, and I’m also raising a 2-year-old (hi, all working moms).
2025 be like...
We’re all burned out by the AI anxiety
To cut through the noise, I hand-picked for you only3 articles that show how to use AI in 2025 and skip all the noise. Together, they’ll level up your game in three key areas:
The shapes of AI in UI
A practical guide to AI prompting
Agentic AI and how to use it
🤩 Read them one by one if you can, but if you’re in a scanning mode, I've also added my key takeaways from each.
1. The shapes of AI in UI
If you’re shaping AI into your product, this article’s worth a read. It maps out seven emerging UI layouts and the roles they give your AI: from sidekick to full-on creative partner. Each pattern changes how easy it is to find, how people use it, and what they expect it to deliver.
Placement sets the relationship: AI in a floating panel feels like a sidekick, inline suggestions feel like a co-worker, a full workspace feels like a creative partner.
Surface it only when it’s relevant: The right moment beats the right location. Too early and it distracts, too late and it feels useless and detracts from the trust.
Pattern-mix for impact: like AI UX Patterns shows, the best designs blend help, context, and clear actions instead of sticking to a single “AI slot.”
2. A practical guide to AI prompting
If you’ve been frustrated by vague or messy AI outputs, this guide will clear that up. It shows how the questions you ask shape the quality of answers more than any hidden “hack.” With a few simple frameworks, you can make AI respond with exactly what you need: consistently.
Better questions beat clever tricks: Clarity always wins over “magic” phrasing. Example: Instead of “Write me something amazing,” try “Write a 200-word intro email for a new hotel guest, warm and friendly in tone.”
Treat prompts like prototypes: Adjust one thing at a time, keep the good ones, and turn them into your own library. Example: Test the same request but swap ‘friendly’ for ‘luxury’ tone to compare outputs.
Follow RTF framework: Role, Task, Format. Be specific, in that order. Example: “You’re a UX writer. Draft microcopy for a hotel check-in kiosk. Output in a table with 3 tone options.”
3. Agentic AI and how to use it
If AI has felt like a clever assistant waiting for instructions, this guide shows what happens when it starts acting on its own. Agentic AI shifts the role from answering to doing, taking steps toward a goal without you prompting every move. This is where your job changes
From answering to acting: Agents don’t just respond, they take initiative. Example: Instead of generating one-off user personas, an agent could monitor analytics, flag changes in user behavior, and update persona docs weekly.
Think in loops, not scripts: Define goals and guardrails, then let the agent adapt. Example: Set an AI agent to review live usability feedback daily, group issues into themes, and suggest top priorities for your next design sprint.
Still needs a human captain: Autonomy without oversight drifts fast. Example: As the designer, you’d review the AI’s prioritized backlog to ensure it aligns with business goals and brand tone before handing it to the dev team.
