Source: https://imdennie.com/blog/

Updated: 2026-10-08

Writing

# Notes on design & building.

Practical writing on design careers, AI products, and what happens when a designer ships apps alone. No fluff, no process theater.

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![A laptop and a whiteboard titled “A brighter tomorrow” listing six steps — learn the basics, practice and build, get feedback, build a portfolio, land opportunities, keep growing — on a camp table beside a van, overlooking the sea at sunset](https://imdennie.com/dist/img/blog/how-to-become-a-product-designer.jpg)

July 2026 · Careers in design · 9 min read

## How to become a product designer in 2026 — advice from 14 years in

My degree is in tourism. Here's the actual path into product design — the skills that matter now, a portfolio with zero experience, the first job, and an honest take on the AI question.

Read the guide → ](https://imdennie.com/blog/how-to-become-a-product-designer.html)
- [ July 2026 · Building in public · 8 min read

## I shipped two iOS apps solo — what AI changed about being a designer

After 14 years designing products other people built, I took Numi and Tysha from idea to the App Store alone. What AI tools actually changed — and what they didn't touch at all.

Read the story → ](https://imdennie.com/blog/shipping-apps-solo-with-ai.html)
- [ July 2026 · AI & design · 7 min read

## Designing AI products: 6 lessons from building an AI nutrition app

AI products are probabilistic — sometimes wrong, always uncertain, never instant. Six reusable UX lessons on uncertainty, latency, correction loops and failure states, from a shipped product.

Read the lessons → ](https://imdennie.com/blog/designing-ai-products.html)
- [ August 2026 · Design practice · 7 min read

## AI product design: designing for the cost of being wrong

AI product design is ordinary product design plus one new variable: the feature can be confidently wrong and you cannot tell which time. I name the wrongness budget, separate draft surfaces from commit surfaces, and go through the decisions I actually changed after shipping.

Read the piece → ](https://imdennie.com/blog/ai-product-design.html)
- [ September 2026 · Design & ML · 8 min read

## UX for machine learning: the interface is a measuring device

Machine learning products have three time horizons, and most design writing only covers the first one. Here is what I learned shipping ML features about correction paths, checkability bias, and the fields that should never ask for confirmation.

](https://imdennie.com/blog/ux-for-machine-learning-the-interface-is-a-measuring-device.html)
- [ September 2026 · AI interfaces · 11 min read

## AI UX patterns that survive contact with a real model

A working list of the AI UX patterns I actually use, with the reasoning behind each one and the versions that failed first. Drawn from building and shipping Numi, a vision-based food tracker, on my own.

](https://imdennie.com/blog/ai-ux-patterns-that-survive-contact-with-a-real-model.html)