Episode 106
Zach Leach - Principles for designing a great AI product
Dive Club 🤿 · Ridd
May 9, 202546m 15s
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Show Notes
This week, Zach Leach (Head of Design at Gamma) gives a behind-the-scenes of what it’s like designing one of the hottest AI products in the world today.
He shares a ton of techniques and lessons learned from working with LLMs—including some ways to make AI fun again :) And we also learn what makes design at Gamma a bit unorthodox in all the best ways.
Some highlights:
- What makes Gamma a team of “AI Pioneers”
- How Gamma designers prototype ideas in code
- How Zach has iterated on interaction patterns for AI
- How to think about AI functionality at the system level
- How Zach imagines his design role in the coming years
- What Zach has learned about designing AI-powered flows
- a lot more **
- The core team came over together from Optimizely
- We talked about prototyping in Bolt and Lovable