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May 5, 2026

AI Made Junior Designers Look Like Most Seniors: Hannah Ahn

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Hannah Ahn is designing healthcare in the exact moment AI is making it easier than ever to take control of our health.

She leads design and marketing at Superpower, a health startup building an AI layer across bloodwork, labs, genomics, and medical records. Before that, she came up through product management at Canva, which makes her a useful kind of design leader right now: practical, visual, brand-sensitive, and allergic to treating velocity like the whole job.

We talk about designing trust around health data, why Superpower rolled out Claude Code to the design team in January, how she hires for team composition, and why the most underrated signal in a designer right now is still love of the game.

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  • 00:00 - Designing trust when AI touches your health

  • 03:06 - PM to designer was the practical path

  • 06:41 - How Superpower runs a five-person design team

  • 10:34 - Hiring for composition, not clones

  • 13:55 - Love of the game beats credentials

  • 16:46 - Rolling Claude Code out in January

  • 21:47 - When velocity starts producing slop

  • 24:41 - The 1% that makes people trust you

  • 33:23 - The junior ladder is breaking

  • 36:31 - Designers as architects, not prompt operators

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