Thoughts

Essays by Eugen Stoicov on product design under constraint: regulated industries, medical device software and AI features that have to stay explainable.

• What a design system is for when the software is regulated — In regulated products a design system stops being a consistency project. It becomes the place where a safety decision only has to be made once.
• The audit trail is the interface — In regulated software, the record of what happened is not logging. It is the product, and it should be designed like one.
• Designing AI tools inside regulated systems — In life sciences, the AI that wins is the one a team can explain to an auditor. Not the one that demos best.