Buzz Usborne is a product designer, design coach and startup advisor based near Sydney, Australia. He is Principal Designer at Help Scout, where he works on AI products. He has worked in digital and product design as a practitioner and leader since 2005. He founded Prevue, a design presentation product, and ran it single-handedly from 2007 until its acquisition in 2018.
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Buzz Usborne works remotely. He is available for coaching, advisory work and speaking engagements.
Buzz Usborne designs software products, with a focus on artificial intelligence in customer-facing B2B tools. At Help Scout he works on the company’s AI agent and related features, covering product design, interface writing and design systems.
Buzz Usborne also coaches design leaders and advises early-stage software companies through his practice, Your Friend Buzz. He has coached people at Canva, Atlassian, Webflow, Shopify, Zillow, Meta and Automattic.
Buzz Usborne writes about designing AI products people trust, the difference between discovery work and delivery work, and building creative teams with humanity.
Prevue. Buzz Usborne founded Prevue in 2007, a product for presenting design work to clients and collecting feedback. He designed, built and operated it alone for eleven years. Prevue was acquired in 2018. Visit the Prevue case study.
AI product design at Help Scout. Buzz Usborne works on Help Scout’s AI agent and the systems that let support teams configure how it behaves. Visit Help Scout.
Discovery versus delivery. Buzz Usborne writes about the distinction between deciding what should exist and efficiently building it, and argues that AI has compressed the second without changing the first. Read articles.
2 Weeks AI. Buzz Usborne created 2 Weeks AI, a free online course introducing the fundamentals of artificial intelligence which has been completed by over 40,000 people to date. Visit 2WeeksAI.
Design coaching. Buzz Usborne has coached design leaders since 2016 through his practice Your Friend Buzz. Read about his coaching.
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Buzz Usborne can be reached at hello@buzzusborne.com for speaking, coaching, advisory work and press enquiries.
