{"id":208140,"date":"2026-05-02T12:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T16:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/02\/max-schoening-ais-role-in-design-and-product\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T01:55:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T05:55:27","slug":"max-schoening-ais-role-in-design-and-product","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/02\/max-schoening-ais-role-in-design-and-product\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Schoening: AI&#8217;s Role in Design and Product"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.startuphub.ai\/ai-news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/max-schoening-ai-s-role-in-design-and-product\">Max Schoening: AI&#8217;s Role in Design and Product<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.startuphub.ai\/ai-news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/max-schoening-ai-s-role-in-design-and-product\">https:\/\/www.startuphub.ai\/ai-news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/max-schoening-ai-s-role-in-design-and-product<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-02 12:02:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.startuphub.ai\">www.startuphub.ai<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Meet Max Schoening:<\/strong> Schoening, Head of Product at Notion, brings significant experience from roles at GitHub, Google, and two startups. His expertise spans design, engineering, and product development.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Democratization of Creativity with AI:<\/strong> Schoening highlighted how AI tools lower barriers in product development, particularly accelerating the initial 10% of any project involving brainstorming and prototyping. This accessibility fosters a more inclusive and dynamic development environment.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Augmenting, Not Replacing, Human Ingenuity:<\/strong> Schoening emphasized that AI acts as a powerful co-pilot, enhancing human creative processes rather than replacing them. It frees up human talent for more strategic and creative endeavors, encouraging a proactive approach to innovation.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Evolving Role of Designers and PMs:<\/strong> He discussed the convergence of roles between designers and product managers, facilitated by AI, which allows for more cross-functional collaboration and holistic product development.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>A New Kind of Universal Basic Income:<\/strong> Schoening suggested that knowledge work, powered by AI, serves as a new form of economic security, reducing the initial effort required to bring ideas to life and promoting experimentation and diversity in startups.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>The Future of AI in Product Development:<\/strong> Schoening believes that AI will continue to enable faster innovation by augmenting human capability, rather than replacing human judgment and creativity, thus dramatically changing our approach to creation and problem-solving.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max Schoening: AI&#8217;s Role in Design and Product https:\/\/www.startuphub.ai\/ai-news\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/max-schoening-ai-s-role-in-design-and-product Publish Date: 2026-05-02 12:02:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":208141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.startuphub.ai\/storage\/v1\/object\/public\/post-images\/youtube\/1777737642690.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208142,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208140\/revisions\/208142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}