Crafted 2026 Conference in Seattle
Workshop: The AI-Enhanced Product Creator
Getting comfortable with AI sometimes takes a nudge. Last Thursday, I nudged a room full of ux researchers, designers, engineers and product managers to learn vibe prototyping.
At the Crafted conference in Seattle, the UserTesting folks gathered an amazing audience and impactful speakers.
Using credits from Lovable, my workshop attendees each created two distinct prototypes in 90 minutes. Participants learned how easy it is to get started as well as how powerful a prototype can be when you add:
-- 3rd party libraries
-- external APIs
-- OCR processing
-- chatbot functionality
-- data sources of all kinds
The session earned a 53 NPS ("Excellent"). This is a sampling of the feedback:
"Great speaker and interactive projects throughout! Made it super comfortable to ask questions and talk through everything as well."
"Hands-on opportunity to build a prototype"
"Easygoing speaker, open for questions, good balance of fun/exploratory in ai product prototyping and deeper professional applications of tools"
"Jim led a very smooth and easy session on getting users onboarded to vibe coding platforms."
"Starting with basics and building up to more complex concepts"
"Engaging energy from the instructor, good domain insights, resources"
I loved the choice of venue. High ceilings, tall community-focused tables.
Thanks to the UserTesting for putting on such an engaging conference.
Workshop Blurb:
Discover how AI prototyping can reduce time to first user test. This is a hands-on, hackathon-like workshop where each attendee will bring an idea to life using an AI prototyping tool.
What you’ll learn
A repeatable approach to build an interactive prototype in 60 minutes
Add deeper interactivity using external APIs and AI services (no coding required)
Best practices for prompting, iterating, and debugging with AI prototyping tools
How to focus your efforts on experimentation and learning first, not pixel-perfect design