Building More Accessible Products in the Age of AI

Hosted by Nuoran Chen and Xinran Ma

Thu, May 21, 2026

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AI for Product Designers
Xinran Ma
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What you'll learn

Learn how AI accelerates accessibility design handoff

Learn how AI creates responsive prototype for user testing

Learn how AI audits and fixes debts in design system

Why this topic matters

Accessibility at New York Times scale means millions of readers. Every barrier in a paywall locks someone out of journalism. Designers know it matters, but the manual work eats up the time we have. AI changes the math. What used to take a day now takes minutes, so accessibility stops being something we do "if we have time" and becomes the default.

You'll learn from

Nuoran Chen

Growth Designer @ New York Times

Nuoran is a designer in the media space, previously at The Washington Post and now at The New York Times, where he focuses on mobile subscription experiences. He's passionate about accessibility and actively explores new ways to build them into the design process. Outside of work, he pursues a creative practice spanning XR, speculative design, and universal design, exploring how technology shapes access to information.

Xinran Ma

Founder of Design with AI | 3x Author | Startup Advisor

Xinran Ma is the founder and author of Design with AI, speaker, and award-winning designer.

Design with AI is one of the fastest-growing AI communities with over 40K subscribers from companies like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and McKinsey.

Xinran has also written multiple Amazon #1 New Release books in UX and teaches a popular course on Maven: AI for Product Designers.

He regularly delivers lectures and conducts AI workshops at places such as Microsoft, Columbia Business School, UXPA, the City of Vancouver, Workday, and Pratt Institute.

One of his lightning sessions is the most watched design classes on Maven with about 7K signups.

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