<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[pixelpaperai]]></title><description><![CDATA[Creative Journeys, One Post at a Time]]></description><link>https://www.pixelpaperai.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 02:15:17 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.pixelpapernotes.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[The Quiet Work of Keeping People Close]]></title><description><![CDATA[When we say PicCollage is for "connection-focused" users, we're trying to name something that's hard to put in a single sentence. It isn't really a demographic. It's a posture toward life — a felt responsibility to hold something together, to document, to commemorate, to communicate. The people who reach for PicCollage tend to be the ones in their family, friend group, or community who have quietly taken on the work of keeping people close. After years of talking to our users, I've come to...]]></description><link>https://www.pixelpapernotes.com/post/the-quiet-work-of-keeping-people-close</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69f28f8724f9d3e5cd743437</guid><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 23:12:35 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Joanne Chang</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're giving feedback on the wrong layer — and what to do instead]]></title><description><![CDATA[The problem isn't that your founder gives bad feedback. It's that he's giving the right input at the wrong layer. Imagine a legal tech team building a dataset to train a contract analysis model. They're rigorous. They hire annotators, build a labeling interface, run QA passes on every batch. The schema they've designed is clean: clause type, obligation strength, party role, risk level. Then they bring in a lawyer to review the outputs. She looks at the results and either doesn't know where or...]]></description><link>https://www.pixelpapernotes.com/post/you-re-giving-feedback-on-the-wrong-layer-and-what-to-do-instead</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69e689bce30ec41b7d05ea16</guid><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:29:40 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Joanne Chang</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can AI do concept-level design thinking? I tested Claude Design on a real brand problem and I was delightfully surprised]]></title><description><![CDATA[Not a features review. I set up a hypothetical design exercise based on a brand tension I know well — and asked Claude to think through it with me. What came back was delightful as I got to fully engage in the pre-execution phase of design - the type of design conversation I was looking for. There's a problem I keep running into when designing with others. What happens is, I assign a designer a task, it seems that there is a tendency to  jump into Figma, and on the next meeting it comes back...]]></description><link>https://www.pixelpapernotes.com/post/can-ai-do-concept-level-design-thinking-i-tested-claude-design-on-a-real-brand-problem-and-i-was-de</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69e4a1b0cee1d9a6a675fc2a</guid><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:15:56 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Joanne Chang</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Design Is the Domain: A Different Kind of AI Product Development]]></title><description><![CDATA[What happens when the knowledge the AI needs to learn is yours There's a version of the "designer's role in AI" conversation that's become fairly standard. Designers should be at the table during problem definition. Designers should advocate for data quality. Designers should own the prompting layer. Designers should define what good UX looks like on top of the model. All of that is true, and it matters. But there's a different and less-discussed scenario that changes the stakes considerably:...]]></description><link>https://www.pixelpapernotes.com/post/when-design-is-the-domain-a-different-kind-of-ai-product-development</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69dc655b8614fb4128b26e06</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:20:43 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Joanne Chang</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Designer's Place in the AI Product Lifecycle]]></title><description><![CDATA[Notes and reflections from Robert Redmond's Elvtr class on AI Product Design There's a version of AI product development that goes like this: engineers define the problem, data scientists acquire and clean data, a model gets trained, it gets deployed, and design gets called in at the beginning to sketch some wireframes and at the end to polish the UI. Job done. I've often wondered if there was something missing in the process. From taking Robert Redmon's class on AI Product Design, he...]]></description><link>https://www.pixelpapernotes.com/post/the-designer-s-place-in-the-ai-product-lifecycle</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69dc63938614fb4128b269c7</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 03:37:38 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Joanne Chang</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diving Deeper into "How to Start with AI?" by Learning From the Experts]]></title><description><![CDATA[I've been using AI to validate my thoughts and brainstorm ideas, which has significantly impacted my life. However, I haven't fully understood its effect on product development yet. A few weeks ago, I met a friend who was thrilled about how AI had transformed his work. He mentioned that, despite being the CTO of his company, he hadn't coded in years. He believed that rapid changes were imminent and that the next six months to a year would be the optimal time to leverage this technology. I...]]></description><link>https://www.pixelpapernotes.com/post/exploring-design-and-technology-trends-in-creative-classes</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d81b2b0b7119100d01e411</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:33:31 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/692ca1_e35a5b0adfc54c33836ee5ec31627052~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_812,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Joanne Chang</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>