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Rough, rapid, and right in the age of AI: Michelle Lee

As AI makes it easier to generate polished renders with minimal effort, more people are celebrating the ease and speed of design. But beautiful images aren't design. They can seduce us into thinking an idea is fully baked, stopping us from asking the most important questions, the ones that uncover the insights that help us truly meet human needs.

In this episode, Michelle Lee, partner and managing director of IDEO San Francisco, shares the story she wrote with Danny DeRuntz, an executive design director at IDEO, on why the three Rs of prototyping—rough, rapid, and right—still hold.

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