UX Collective

We believe designers are thinkers as much as they are makers. https://linktr.ee/uxc

Follow publication

Member-only story

Making AI work for us: how can NotebookLM help us spread good design thinking?

How this tool can help you breathe new life into your UX docs.

Ben Davies-Romano
UX Collective
Published in
12 min read4 days ago

An illustration of a woman with pink glasses holding a notebook with a robot on the cover in front of a colourful rainbow background.
In the age of AI, notebooks have no spines 🤯. Image generated with Midjourney

Friends, this isn’t an AI-hype piece. I’m interested in how tools—AI or not—can help scale the impact a small but incredibly mighty team of content designers can have, especially given that we’re a scarce resource and can’t support everyone who might want or benefit from our expertise.

Enter Google’s NotebookLM. I’ll walk you through some of my experimentation with this tool, what I’ve found works, and how I’m currently using it. As a content designer, this will be through the lens of UX content design, but the same principles can apply to any design or product documentation.

Let’s go!

What is NotebookLM?

NotebookLM is an AI-powered research and documentation tool that can help you organize, reference, and interact with your content more engagingly through a chat interface.

I know what you’re thinking. A chat? Groundbreaking. (If you read that as Miranda Priestly, we can be friends.) It’s not a novel concept, but it’s quick, easy, and free to use, and so far, I’ve found it to be pretty helpful.

Create an account to read the full story.

The author made this story available to Medium members only.
If you’re new to Medium, create a new account to read this story on us.

Or, continue in mobile web

Already have an account? Sign in

Written by Ben Davies-Romano

UX, Product, Growth | https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamin-w-davies/ Principal Content Designer in FinTech | 🏳️‍🌈 and 😴

Responses (2)

Write a response

Ben, this is an absolute masterclass in making AI work for us rather than the other way around. Your insights into scaling content design impact with NotebookLM are both practical and inspiring. I love how you break down the process step by step…

--