Dscout's Bex Jeanson: AI prototyping exposed gaps that OOUX then filled

Bex Jeanson, a designer at Dscout, describes a Paylocity project where AI-assisted prototyping in Figma Make surfaced unresolved structural questions rather than validating an idea, such as whether notifications belonged at the step, automation, or global level, and whether triggers counted as steps. Instead of continuing to prototype, Jeanson ran a multi-week object-oriented UX (OOUX) sprint with a mentee, defining the system's objects, relationships, and permitted actions before building a single screen. The sprint ran in two-hour blocks rather than the eight-hour days often recommended for OOUX. Jeanson found AI useful for generating candidate nouns and verbs but unreliable for resolving relationship decisions, which still required human judgment.