Field Guide: Designing Products in the Post-AI Era

Tools: Knurture’s process, Objects and transitions

Tools: Four forces, Map the workflow people actually tolerate

Tools: Trigger scene, How to research the scene

Tools: A job-context card

Tools: The eight parts of an agent job spec, Conditional behavior

Tools: Backward forces, What the old way does well

Tools: Relief requirement

Tools: Follow the chain, Decision ledger

Tools: Ordinary-day prototype

Tools: Relationship critique

Tools: Make the result inspectable

Tools: Situational prototype, Watch the silence

Tools: The first fourteen

Tools: Deliver intent, not output, Design the arc, not isolated screens

Tools: State inventory

Tools: One component conversation, Vertical slices

Tools: Safety net, Recovery path

Tools: Job context

Tools: The three questions, Scaling by accident vs. scaling by design

Tools: Four modes, Consent scope

Tools: Core component families, Semantic contract

Tools: Trust token, Trust-token inventory

Tools: Memory scope, Memory provenance

Tools: Five pass-back questions

Tools: Convergence stages, Readiness check

Tools: Don’t front-load the relationship, Watch for the exhale

Tools: A good first yes, First voluntary use

Tools: The Six Rs

Tools: Two clocks, Design the bridge

Tools: Compounding value without captivity, Watch the language

Tools: Promise-to-behavior audit

Tools: Diagnose the earliest broken step

Tools: Leave the work ready to resume, Situational cue