Why AI Products Lose Users After the First Try — And How to Design for Adoption
Most AI products don’t fail because the model is bad. They fail because the product decisions around the model are wrong — or absent. Activation looks healthy in week one, then collapses in week two. Generation counts climb while export and approval rates stay flat. Users try the AI feature once, mark it as “interesting,” and never come back. If you’re shipping AI products in 2026, you’ve seen this pattern. The question is what to do about it. […]