This episode talks about a question I’ve been thinking about recently: if designers can now vibe-code a working prototype in just an afternoon, does the double-diamond model still hold in design?
Once AI enters the process, the real risk isn’t that it will get things wrong—it will make the wrong things beautiful and fast, so fast that you don’t even notice you’ve gone off track.
So my answer is: the double diamond still holds. But there are two changes.
First, it may end up with only one “diamond,” cycling continuously—diverging, converging, then converging again.
Second, deciding when to switch from divergence to convergence is more important than ever. In the past, taking a wrong turn might cost you a whole week, and it was easy to notice. Now it only takes an afternoon, and you feel efficient the entire time.
Full video: https://youtu.be/VRildVdtai4
Once AI enters the process, the real risk isn’t that it will get things wrong—it will make the wrong things beautiful and fast, so fast that you don’t even notice you’ve gone off track.
So my answer is: the double diamond still holds. But there are two changes.
First, it may end up with only one “diamond,” cycling continuously—diverging, converging, then converging again.
Second, deciding when to switch from divergence to convergence is more important than ever. In the past, taking a wrong turn might cost you a whole week, and it was easy to notice. Now it only takes an afternoon, and you feel efficient the entire time.
Full video: https://youtu.be/VRildVdtai4