Designing the Learning Loop: Context, AI, and Compound Systems

Designing the Learning Loop: Context, AI, and Compound Systems

January 27, 2026 · 48 min · Season 2 · Episode 1

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Chris Strahl and Dave Brown discuss modern systems thinking in AI-driven product design.

Send us feedback or episode suggestions. In the first episode of Patterns, Chris Strahl sits down with Dave Brown, design leader at Qualtrics, to explore what modern systems thinking looks like in an AI-driven product landscape. Moving beyond traditional notions of software design, the conversation reframes product creation as a shift from a single golden path toward a world where every experience is effectively an edge case. Together, they unpack why context, not features, is becoming the pr...

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