AI Product Design
Designing for trust/35 min

Human in the Loop

Decide when AI should act autonomously, when it should suggest, and when a person must approve.

Lesson

Human-in-the-loop design is not a generic safety sticker. It is a product decision about risk, reversibility, and user control.

The higher the stakes and the harder the action is to undo, the more explicit review should be.

Objectives

Classify automation risk.
Place approval checkpoints.
Design escalation paths.

Practice

Classify five AI actions by risk.
Choose which actions need review before execution.

Next action

Add an approval model to an agent workflow.