AI, Product and Design Podcast · 2025-11-24 · 47 min
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we sit down with Mendigas from the Lovable product team - a non-traditional designer, community builder, and AI super-user who went from recruiting in Dublin to quietly influencing how thousands of creators build products today. We unpack what the next 3 - 5 years will actually feel like for designers, UX researchers, PMs, and product builders in an AI-native world. From the death of traditional workflows, to why “playing daily” with AI tools is the best investment in your career, to how companies are rethinking hiring, prototyping, validation, and creativity, this conversation goes well beyond surface-level commentary. Whether you’re excited, anxious, skeptical, or overwhelmed by the flood of AI tools - this is the grounded, deeply practical, and surprisingly energising conversation the design community needs right now. In This Episode Mendigas’ non-traditional path from Dublin recruitment to becoming a community builder at InVision, On Deck, Koho - and now Lovable. How he used AI coding tools to turn a Sunday idea into a Thursday paying customer. Why AI-native workflows will replace 70% of today’s design toolchain.
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