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The Product Picnic

Writing on UX and product management to connect today's discourse with classic insights that the industry forgot.

Metrics and Data

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Designers will never have influence without understanding how organizations learn

Apr 12, 2026

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9 min read

Designers will never have influence without understanding how organizations learn

We confuse prototypes with demos, and validation with confirmation bias. As a result, we cannot lead — instead, we are led.

Pavel Samsonov
Pavel Samsonov

LLMs

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AI mandates are a demand for cognitive surrender

Apr 5, 2026

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7 min read

AI mandates are a demand for cognitive surrender

Studies show that reducing our scope of judgment to checking AI outputs leads to abandoning critical thinking altogether.

Pavel Samsonov
Pavel Samsonov

Systems Thinking

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Grammarly shows how prototyping turned into an excuse for not thinking

Mar 28, 2026

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10 min read

Grammarly shows how prototyping turned into an excuse for not thinking

The industry is in the grip of directionless urgency, and users are paying the price. Strategy has been replaced with half-baked features.

Pavel Samsonov
Pavel Samsonov

LLMs

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UX works through social relationships. AI tools are erasing them.

Mar 22, 2026

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8 min read

UX works through social relationships. AI tools are erasing them.

Stakeholders want to vibe code and have designers clean up after them afterwards. But rather than helping with velocity, there is just more noise and more work for everyone.

Pavel Samsonov
Pavel Samsonov

Problem Design

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Software is a coordination problem. AI can't help you with that.

Mar 13, 2026

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6 min read

Software is a coordination problem. AI can't help you with that.

The feedback loops of the product delivery lifecycle go through people. Adding AI makes it slower, not faster.

Pavel Samsonov
Pavel Samsonov

Problem Design

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Checking an LLM's work is a systemic, not an individual, problem.

Mar 8, 2026

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8 min read

Checking an LLM's work is a systemic, not an individual, problem.

Only a culture of design critique can prevent sloppy AI-generated problem definitions.

Pavel Samsonov
Pavel Samsonov
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