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The AI
Handbook
for Product
Design

Working title

Marcin Treder

The Book

The AI Handbook for Product Design

Working title

How AI is transforming UX — and how UX shapes the future of AI.

Unlike books that treat AI as a feature set or a passing trend, this one bridges cognitive science, computational theory and design ethics to define what it means to build human-centered, adaptive and trustworthy AI products.

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Why this book

Go deeper than the tools.

Software is shifting from the deterministic model we know to indeterministic computing. This book gives designers, researchers and product managers the in-depth, practical knowledge to navigate it — not by following trends, but by truly understanding how modern AI works.

Readers will learn to

  1. Bridge theory and practice — translate ideas from classic ML to RAG and agentic systems into product and UX strategy.

  2. Recognize emerging AI design patterns and understand their technical and experiential logic.

  3. Navigate ethics and trust — design for safety, transparency and explainability.

  4. Apply universal principles of AI-first design, grounded in human cognition, prediction and interaction.

  5. Future-proof their careers by developing the skills to lead product innovation in the era of intelligent interfaces.

Contents

Four parts, sixteen chapters.

PART 01

Foundations

How Intelligence Became Computable

  1. The Anatomy of Intelligence
  2. First Sparks of Intelligence: Classical Machine Learning and the Birth of Predictive UX
  3. The Awakening of the Machine: Deep Learning
  4. Machines That Speak: Transformers and the Rise of Large Language Models
  5. The Imagining Machine: Diffusion Models and Augmented Creation

PART 02

Practice

How Combinations of Theories Lead to New Experiences

  1. Beyond LLM: RAG & Knowledge-Augmented Interfaces
  2. Chain of Thought: Self-Explaining UIs
  3. Multimodal UIs: Translating User Intent
  4. AI Collaboration: Agents & Orchestrated Experiences

PART 03

Future

Post Science-Fiction User Experiences

  1. The Future of Software: Generative Interfaces
  2. The Future of Tech Jobs: Full-Stack Creators
  3. The Future of Intelligence: AGI & Autonomous Software

PART 04

Principles

Building the Digital World You Want to Live In

  1. Trust: Transparency & Explainability
  2. Safety: Designing for the Safety of People
  3. Responsibility: Limited Computational Cost
  4. Alignment: Designing for Survival

Who it’s for

If you build user-centered software with the best of modern AI, this book is for you.

Written for UX professionals, product managers and entrepreneurs. If you’ve worked on software in any user-facing role, you already have enough foundation to benefit — the harder ideas are explained from the ground up, assuming no prior knowledge, with pointers for the curious who want to go deeper.