AI + UX • Raising Pre-Seed for UXpilot.ai • Founder @ UX Design Studio: adamfard.com • SaaS | Fintech | AI

I've designed B2B products for over 10 years

And there are 5 issues I kept seeing:

1 - Unnecessarily complex experiences
2 - Little (or no) user understanding
3 - Bad information architectures
4 - Major usability problems
5 - Lack of consistency

Over and over again.

As a result, companies see:

- Low activation & adoption
- Low retention rates
- High churn rates

Fixing these problems needs a special team and B2B focused methodology

Different from designing for B2C user experiences.

B2B products have:
- Complex workflows
- Multiple user roles
- Intricate decision-making

Here's a simple comparison:
B2C e-commerce: One-click purchase for a single item
B2B inventory system: Multi-step process for bulk orders with approvals

Solution?

I tackled that by building a technical team of product designers and researchers with PhDs.

Our expertise helps you:

- Understand users through research
- Create data-driven concepts
- Design user-friendly interfaces
- Build scalable design systems
- Ensure smooth handoff to developers

Using this approach, we've helped B2B SaaS companies:

- Create MVPs from scratch and raise $5 to $20m in funding
- Scale and improve their complex platforms iteratively
- Increased conversion rate by 400%

To take things further, I'm building an AI product (UX Pilot AI) to streamline the UX process for (our) product- and design teams.

If you want to learn more, go to adamfard.com

Adam Fard

Figma AI is practically dead

In the meantime, with UX Pilot you can generate designs and components directly inside Figma

Unlike other AI tools:
- It's not limited to a few predefined styles
- It's not limited to a few components
- It's not limited to only mobile

Test it for free: https://lnkd.in/dm5NzPDz

Founder of UX Pilot AI (0 → 5mil ARR) | Building New Era of Product Design

200,000+ ‌Figma users are about to move faster than ever ⚡️

For years, you've had to export/import your designs, between UX Pilot AI and Figma

But everything has changed

Now you just have to:
1. Click on “Copy Design”
2. Head to Figma and paste it 

Yes, it’s that simple

Now a couple of clicks is all you need to go from idea to product design 😎

Try UX Pilot for free: https://lnkd.in/ecZ3GyzT

Stop presenting slides —> start showing clickable prototypes 📲

Visualizing your product just got way faster
And a whole lot more interactive too

Here’s all you need to do:
1. Write out the general flow of your app
2. Hit auto-flow to instantly generate prompts for each screen
3. Click “Generate” to build the whole app flow
4. Pick the screens you want to connect
5. And tap “Prototype” to start exploring your own product

No more PowerPoints or clunky presentations
Now you can literally demo your product right inside UX Pilot AI

Start creating your UX/UI designs in seconds
And share your idea clearer and faster than ever

Try UX Pilot for free here: https://lnkd.in/dEfGsTCB

Free trials don’t kill revenue, but bad products do

When we launched UX Pilot AI, we ignored the advice to hide everything behind a paywall

We were generous from day one
People could actually try the product
Use it how they please
Feel the difference

And something interesting happened

They didn’t stay free for long
Most upgraded right away
Others within a few hours

Not because of discounts
Not because of pressure
Because the value was obvious

Today, UX Pilot has grown to 14k paid users on that model

The lesson?
If your product solves a real problem
You don’t need to “convince” people to pay
You just need to let them experience it

Paywalls don’t create value
But products do

And free trials don’t kill revenue
They simply expose the truth

This is how top UX designers are 10x-ing their productivity in 2026

After interviewing hundreds of UX designers we discovered one thing

They don’t start by perfecting screens
They start by generating one wireframe
And then they just iterate from there

With UX Pilot AI, pros use Variations to instantly spin multiple layout options, and Blitz Mode to generate up to 4 wireframe variations in under 15 seconds

Buttons move, layouts shift, and structures evolve instantly

This lets designers see how different decisions change the experience 
Without rebuilding anything from scratch

The result?
> Faster iteration
> More exploration
> Less friction.

In just 2 clicks
You get 4 variations

This is effortless ideation
And this is how wireframing becomes a creative accelerator

Want to win $262 worth of UX Pilot AI credits & pro features? 🙃

The last person to comment on this post
Wins 1 year of UX Pilot Pro, 100% FREE

If you want to speed up your product design process
Here’s how it works:
1. Leave a comment on this post
2. If no one else comments within 24 hours, you’re the winner
3. If someone comments before then, they become the new contender

It really is that simple, looking for the last man/woman standing
If there’s no winner until Feb 27th, the person with the most comments will receive a special prize 👀

PS: If this is your first time hearing about UX Pilot, you can give it a free trial for free.

Just drop a comment and let the games begin!

After analyzing how designers use UX Pilot, one thing became obvious:

The difference between “nice screens” and great UI/UX comes down to how you use the tool.

Here are the 7 UX Pilot AI performance hacks that change everything 👇

𝐇𝐚𝐜𝐤 #1: 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐢𝐱𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐅𝐢𝐠𝐦𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐔𝐗 𝐏𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐭
Generate a design once. Then use section edits to tweak small parts. Change spacing. Adjust hierarchy. No more pixel dragging, just write down your instructions. This is where UX Pilot gets ridiculously fast.

𝐇𝐚𝐜𝐤 #2: 𝐁𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐞… 𝐨𝐫 𝐛𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞
There’s no single “right” prompt. Sometimes you want freedom: “Design a playful onboarding flow for a fintech app”. Sometimes you want control: “Onboarding screen, single column, progress indicator on top, primary CTA at the bottom”. Try both. Each shines in different moments.

𝐇𝐚𝐜𝐤 #3: 𝐔𝐬𝐞 𝐯𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐛𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥
Upgrade your design language: Clean Minimalist. Modern SaaS. Corporate Modern. Premium Dark Mode. Luxury / High End. Glassmorphism. Digital Brutalism. Illustrative. The more precise your style vocabulary, the better UX Pilot can follow your direction

𝐇𝐚𝐜𝐤 #4: 𝐃𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲
Want consistency? Set brand colors. Choose fonts. Customize a theme. Upload brand guidelines. Sync UX Pilot with your Figma Design System. Do this once and every generation stays on brand. No more visual roulette.

𝐇𝐚𝐜𝐤 #5: 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐳 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧
Designs generate in around 10 seconds with Blitz Mode. So use that speed. Test multiple prompts. Explore variations. Compare directions side by side. Take the best out of fast exploration.

𝐇𝐚𝐜𝐤 #6: 𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐩
Quick idea or rough feedback? Turn Deep Design off. Complex flows, dashboards, or systems? Turn Deep Design and Max on. Depth is a lever, so use it intentionally.

𝐇𝐚𝐜𝐤 #7: 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧 → 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐰 → 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐩𝐩
Nail one screen first. Then click Autoflow. UX Pilot expands that screen into full flows while keeping layout, style, and brand consistent. This is how you scale design without losing coherence.

The truth? UX Pilot doesn’t replace designers. 

It rewards the ones who think in systems, intent, and direction.

Which hack are you stealing first? 👀

In a platform where most brag about success, it is good to remember:

The first Sam Altman project was Loopt. Not OpenAI.
The first Mark Zuckerberg project was ZuckNet. Not Facebook.
The first Steve Jobs project with Woz was the Blue Box. Not the Macintosh.
The first Elon Musk company was Zip2. Not Tesla.
The first Reed Hastings company was Pure Software. Not Netflix.
The first Marc Andreessen project was Mosaic. Not Netscape.
The first Evan Williams product was Blogger at Pyra Labs. Not Twitter.
The first Stewart Butterfield world was Game Neverending. Not Slack.
The first Daniel Ek company was Advertigo. Not Spotify.
The first Kevin Systrom app was Burbn. Not Instagram.
The first Reid Hoffman company was SocialNet. Not LinkedIn.
The first Patrick Collison company was Auctomatic. Not Stripe.
The first Vitalik Buterin project was Bitcoin Magazine. Not Ethereum.
The first Travis Kalanick startup was Scour. Not Uber.

Your first will not be your best.
But it is the only way to get there.

I lead design teams. I love making designers lives better by helping them with their career growth.

Dan Winer

Looking for a design job in the new year?
Here are my favourite resources.
I hope it helps you land a new role 🤞 


Job boards:
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We Work Remotely: https://lnkd.in/djEA9_ba
Otta: https://otta.com/
Himalayas: https://himalayas.app/
Nodesk: https://lnkd.in/d4piHjdi
Woody jobs: https://lnkd.in/dryTAFTG
Remote OK: https://lnkd.in/d3gzAkrz
WeLoveProduct: https://weloveproduct.co/
TrueUp: https://www.trueup.io/


Tracking applications:
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Use Teal to track your job applications and create tailored resumes for each job. It's a fantastic tool, and the free version (no affiliation) offers tons of value. I used it to help me get my last role. https://www.tealhq.com/


Chat GPT/Claude for resumes and cover letters
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1. Feed it as much information as possible about your career. I added my resume, articles I’ve written, performance reviews, my LinkedIn description, etc. Anything that describes you as a professional. Using the "More" button on your profile, you can download your LinkedIn resume and feed it to ChatGPT 

2. Paste job descriptions in and ask it to create a cover letter for you. 75% will be junk.

3. Take that junk cover letter and trim it down to pull out the good bits. An LLM will get you started, but you have to put in some work.

4. In the same chat window, upload or paste your resume and ask it to rewrite it using the “Accomplished [X], as measured by [Y], by doing [Z]” method. The output will be fantasy, but it will be a good boilerplate to start from for a resume focused on impact over output.


Courses and communities
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• Follow Aneta Kmiecik and check out here course, free resources and newsletter at https://lnkd.in/eUXbh7tm
• Follow Anfisa Bogomolova and check out here course and community at https://intoux.design/ 


Preparing for interviews
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Use Chat GPT to prepare for interviews using the STAR method https://lnkd.in/d_Zn5xqr 

The UX Interview Handbook is an amazing free resource with best practices, examples, interview questions, presentations, and whiteboard challenges. Check it out: https://lnkd.in/dukS4K7t

Excellent (free) template for project presentations from The DesignerShip https://lnkd.in/dbrNbeGP

Free UX storytelling ebook by Jeff White https://lnkd.in/d7zTZSHA or take the full course https://lnkd.in/dqqzPsW4 


Questions to ask at the end of your interview 
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- 5 questions to ask at the end of an interview https://lnkd.in/dwpvvfbd (by me)
- 10 questions from Tom Scott: https://lnkd.in/dJRkkVPU Great suggestions in the comments as well.
- Article by Jeremy Bird 🇺🇸🇧🇷 🇺🇸🇧🇷: https://lnkd.in/d9aJ6u5G

Good luck and happy New Year!

Whatever you call yourself
UX, UI/UX, product designer.

UI is part of the product.
The product is part of the experience.
And the business is the context for all of it.

This year, aim to go beyond delivering prototypes.

That means: 
• Use visuals to bring clarity to ambiguous problems
• Consider how decisions scale across the product
• Understand what customers are trying to achieve
• Explain how your work changes their behaviour
• Connect behaviour change to business goals
• Communicate intended outcomes, not just solutions
• Take ownership of what ships, not just design files
• Track flows, drop-offs, and time-to-value
• Shape the problem, not just the interface

This is the shift from executing design work to building influence, shaping the problem, and owning outcomes.

Years on the job don’t equal seniority.
It's about shipping, learning, and improving.

Senior designers have been through multiple product cycles.
Taking ideas through discovery, design, handoff, measurement, and iteration.

True seniors own the product cycle:
•	Spot weak problem definitions
•	Push back on unfeasible ideas
•	Align stakeholders early
•	Define success metrics
•	Iterate post-launch

They’ve learned from past failures:
• Seen projects cut when potential impact was unclear.
• Poured hours into designs that never shipped.
• Watched scope spiral until teams lost faith.

If you’re aiming to level up this year, this is what ownership looks like:

• Before designing, collect one concrete signal that the problem exists.
A data point, a support ticket, or a customer quote.

• Write the success statement in one sentence:
“If this works, more customers will [action], impacting [product metric], contributing to [business goal].”

• Ask engineering how they would solve the customer need with the lowest technical effort.

• List the top 2–3 reasons the project could fail and share them with a stakeholder for input.

• Design the ideal state and the simplest version that can change behaviour.
Everything between becomes phased releases.

• Set a calendar reminder to review impact and share what changed, what didn’t, and what you’d do next.

Seniority isn’t about time served.
It’s about building habits and judgment that come from owning product cycles.

How are you going to level up this year?

With AI tools, anyone can have a portfolio in React
How I would create a portfolio site for free in 2026:

1. Start by writing the content: intro, about me page, case studies, ideally in markdown. 

2. Get all my images ready for the intro, about me and case studies. 

3. Figma for the general design direction. I wouldn't worry about getting every page in Figma and every single detail, but I would want to define at least the visual identity there (whether I want it to be brutalist, modern, clean, aesthetic, minimalist, black-and-white, colourful, etc.).

4. Add text files, images and rules for LLMs, including front-end skills (eg impeccable.style), in a folder on my computer

5. Open the folder in an AI coding tool (Cursor or Antigravity would be my top choices) and ask it to build the structure for a very simple portfolio site with a homepage and three case studies. I ask to use Vite for faster build times, but it's not essential. 

5. After the initial scaffold is built, I would go component by component (eg, header, then hero, then case study overview, etc), pasting in a component to Cursor and getting it built one by one. Avoiding a one-shot prompt. 

6. Once you have the right structure but missing details, I would try two approaches: a) describing the problem along with screenshots of Figma vs the actual build, and b) using Cursor's design mode, and see which approach you find more efficient to get the details right. 

7) The trickiest part for beginners, but totally worth it: you want to set up a workflow where you push your site to GitHub. To do this, you can try a) doing it all through your AI tool, b) via an app like SourceTree (free and awesome), or c) via the command line (long-term best approach but steep learning curve).  

8) Create a Netlify account and set up an automatic deploy linked to your GitHub repo you just created. Now every time you open a pull request or push to your main branch, Netlify will build your site for you. All that's left is to buy a domain if you haven't got one and point it to Netlify. 

Once you've done all that, you will have a site you can build and host for free, or pay around $20/month for a Cursor subscription. With Antigravity, you could probably do the whole thing for free (minus the cost of your domain subscription). 

Of course, this is very simplified, but sometimes just knowing all the steps and you have to investigate is enough to get started.

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