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Snowball Killed the Dev-Star: Stop Handing Off, Start Succeeding in the AI-First World

  • Artificial Intelligence, Human-Centered AI, Product Design, UX Design, UX for AI, UX Leadership

The “3-in-a-box” era is dead. In an AI-first world, hand-offs kill products — only Snowball teams that build, test, and code together will survive.

Article by Greg Nudelman
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Snowball Killed the Dev-Star: Stop Handing Off, Start Succeeding in the AI-First World
  • The article calls for the “Snowball model”: cross-functional teams building, coding, and testing with real users together from day one.
  • It argues that in AI-first UX, “design is how it works” — requiring designers, PMs, and devs to collapse silos, share ownership, and even code collaboratively.
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