In this episode, we speak with Idam Adam, a Product Designer at Upguard.

What does it look like when design and code fully merge, and AI becomes the bridge between an idea and a finished, clickable product? Idam is a Product Designer at UpGuard with a background that spans both coding and design. He's a heavy user of Claude Code and Codex agents, and he's built a workflow that lets him generate rich prototypes, facilitate better stakeholder conversations, and unlock creativity at a scale that wasn't possible before. But what makes Idam's practice distinctive isn't the speed, it's the discipline: spending time up front to go slower. Conscious recalibration. Using AI not just to build, but to think.

In this episode:

How he uses AI to interview himself before building - creating rich context so the model can do its best work
Why prototyping velocity changes stakeholder conversations entirely
The cognitive load of Git, design repositories, and coding agents
What companies are actually looking for when they want someone who can take an idea and ship a finished product
And why "just because you can go fast, doesn't mean you should

Show notes:

https://www.idamadam.com

https://critter.sh

https://time.com/7295195/ai-chatgpt-google-learning-school

https://theconversation.com/is-ai-hurting-your-ability-to-think-how-to-reclaim-your-brain-272834