Episodes
Episode 17: Agent Users, New Design Team Structures, Team Dynamics, AI Chat Problems, Constraints Not Prompts
May 5, 2026
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- Elena Verna: Your product has a new user. It's not human.
- Rethinking the shape of design teams in an AI world
- The "Bug-Free" Workforce: How AI Efficiency Is Subtly Disrupting The Interactions That Build Strong Teams
- The forgotten conversation problem in AI chat
- The End of Prompting: Why the Future of AI Experience Design Is Constraint-First
Episode 16: Deep Dive: AI Skills (with Google's MC Dean)
April 28, 2026
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Episode 15: Claude Design, Innovative AI and Design Research from CHI 2026
April 21, 2026
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CHI 2026 Papers
- Kexue Fu et al. Vistoria: A Multimodal System to Support Fictional Story Writing through Instrumental Image-Text Co-Editing (CHI '26)
- Max Kreminski et al. Herding CATs: Making Sense of Creative Activity Traces (CHI EA '26)
- Kihoon Son et al. ClearFairy: Capturing Creative Workflows through Decision Structuring, In-Situ Questioning, and Rationale Inference (CHI '26)
- Kexin Quan et al. Towards AI as Colleagues: Multi-Agent System Improves Structured Ideation Processes (CHI '26)
- Saumya Pareek et al. Sensemaking in Multi-Agent LLM Interfaces: How Users Interpret Transparency and Trustworthiness Cues (CHI '26)
- Yu Jin et al. Creativity from Surprise: Bridging the Gap Between Fashion Designers' Inspiration Work and AI Creative Support Tools (CHI '26)
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Episode 14: Insights from Anthropic's Head of Design, Why AI UX Sucks, AI Aesthetics, Human-Centered Design 2.0
April 14, 2026
Episode 13: Deep Dive: The Future of Design Practice and Process (with author Mike Kuniavsky)
April 7, 2026
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Design process (recent articles)
- NN/g: Design Process Isn't Dead, It's Compressed
- Kristian Bjørnhaug: The Design Process Isn't Dead. But AI Is Changing Where Design Happens.
- Stan Świątkiewicz: The New Design Process — 2/6
- Rick Starbuck: The Design Process Isn't Dead. It's the Only Thing That Will Save Us.
- Ars Technica: “Cognitive surrender” leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds
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Episode 12: Claude Computer Use, Product Intuition, Author Chris Noessel ("Designing Assistant Technology")
March 31, 2026
Episode 11: Google Stitch, Design in Tech 2026, MC Dean's Skills for AI Agents
March 24, 2026
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Episode 10: AI Image Editors, Institutional v Individual AI, Author Louise MacFadyen ("Designing AI Interfaces")
March 17, 2026
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Episode 9: Very Special Hot Takes Episode: Product Sense, AI Brain Fry, Real Time UI and much much more
March 10, 2026
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- 01:05 AI Brain Fry
- 02:47 The Importance of Product Sense
- 05:40 Collaborative Editing in AI-Generated Images
- 07:52 The Model is The Machine
- 12:06 User Experience and Proprietary Data in AI Products
- 16:06 Sacred Values in AI
- 19:50 OpenPencil
- 22:46 Training Design Judgment
- 26:57 The Critical Need for AI Regulation
- 30:01 The Future of AI Image Generation
- 31:50 Sorting Designers
- 35:38 Real-Time UI
- 41:58 Writing Effective Specs for AI Agents
- 45:28 Breaking the Echo Chamber in Interfaces
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Episode 8: Jenny Wen's Three Types of AI Designers, Designers Should Be Crushing It, Managing AI Pressure
March 3, 2026
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Episode 7: Code and Canvas, Computer Use Agents, The Mythical Agent-Month, Will "Taste" Save Designers?
February 24, 2026
Episode 6: State of The Designer 2026, User Control of AI, Waiting is the New Interruption, AI Intensifies Work
February 18, 2026
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Episode 5: OpenAI's Frontier, The Return of The Intuitive Designer, Special Guest: Figma's Shane Johnson
February 10, 2026
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Episode 4: Figma MCP, UX vs MX, OpenClaw, Creativity Research, and User Research in 2026
February 3, 2026
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- Think outside of the box—with Claude and FigJam
- Introducing our MCP server: Bringing Figma into your workflow
- What is the Model Context Protocol (MCP)?
- Why the new web requires a dual strategy for experience design
- Creative talent: has AI knocked humans out?
- Divergent creativity in humans and large language models
- OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant
- Moltbook — The front page of the agent internet
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Episode 3: Google AI Studio Design Mode, AI at Davos, Claude's Constitution, and Software Too Cheap to Meter
January 27, 2026
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- Google AI Studio adds Design Mode for direct UI editing
- A visual editor for the Cursor Browser
- Inspector - Edit your front-end, visually
- Design Arena
- Demis Hassabis, Dario Amodei Debate What Comes After AGI at World Economic Forum
- Claude's Constitution
- Three Laws of Robotics
- All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace
- Software Too Cheap to Meter
- An app can be a home-cooked meal
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Episode 2: Impeccable, AI as Entertainment, The Four Horsemen of the AIpocalypse
January 20, 2026
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Episode 1: Microsoft Copilot Checkout, Google AI2UI, Razer Ava, 2026 Predictions
January 13, 2026