Quarterly AI Design LA Lightning Talks

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**Which design is better? Let's test it live.** David Nguyen is the founder of User Sage, a user research and usability testing platform. He'll demo his UserSage.com app with an AI panel (simulated people) that can give you feedback on a design in seconds, so you know which direction to take. Then he'll show you how to do it even quicker with an AI Agent like Grok Bot. **Designing for two audiences: people and machines.** Lance Shields is the founder of Raft, an AI-native design studio. He'll show how Raft was built for people and AI alike, flipping between its human and AI modes and testing what AI search actually says about it. Then he'll put Ishmael, Raft's Claude-powered assistant, to work live, answering your questions and booking a call. **Stop Re-Rolling the Whole Image: Deterministic Infographics with XYZ Layout Engine** Generative image models can make an infographic look great, but if you want to fix one label, recolor one element or move one callout, you have to regenerate the whole graphic and pray nothing else changes. XYZ Layout Engine (open source) gives AI the jobs it’s good at (art direction, writing recipes, generating isolated cutout illustrations) and leaves exa…

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