I thought AI was supposed to make work easier.
Like with most technology, it simply allows us to do more work. In less time.
Last week I attended a talk by designer Anfisa Bogomolova, hosted by the Projektor community network and Make at Make’s HQ in Prague — part of an evening on AI in design. I was there doing what I usually do at these events: graphic recording the session live, sketching discreetly while the talk unfolds, then distilling it into one complete illustrated piece afterward.
What Anfisa’s talk was actually about
Her 45-minute talk went deep into how she uses AI in her own workflow to develop and iterate on design work. For her, AI hasn’t replaced skill — it’s broadened it.
Designers can no longer just hand off a file and walk away. They’re working alongside engineering as the product iterates, which means Anfisa now needs a real technical understanding of what engineers do — and to speak their language.
The sketch
This sketch takes some liberties with her presentation, but it gets at the heart of her story and the core message underneath — which is the whole point of graphic recording: not a transcript, but a distillation.
Why event organizers use this
A talk like this lives for maybe 45 minutes in a room, then survives only in whatever people manage to write down. Graphic recording — visual note-taking of a live talk, turned into a single shareable illustration — gives it a second life: something speakers can repost, organizers can put in a recap newsletter, and attendees actually want to look at again.
If you’ve got a talk or presentation that could use a visual synopsis like this — or know someone whose story deserves to be told this way — give me a shout. I love pulling apart a presentation to find its real message, then building that back up into something visual and memorable.