The AI and Design Podcast

Chapters

• 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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Links & Articles

• Jenny Wen Interview
• Designers, We Should Be Killing It Right Now
• How I'm dealing with the pressure to adopt AI as a designer
• Managing the Design Factory
• Horizons by Norman Bel Geddes

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Links & Articles

• The Future of Design Is Code and Canvas
• Mapping the Design Space of User Experience for Computer Use Agents
• The Mythical Agent-Month
• ADA057655 (note: see Figure 4.2 "Roles of Computer in Supervisory Control" on page 4.6)

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Links & Articles

• State of the Designer 2026: Designers Are Leaning Into the Messy Middle
• Opting Out of AI (NYT)
• Waiting is the New Interruption
• AI Doesn't Reduce Work—It Intensifies It (HBR)
• Slow AI: Designing User Control for Long Tasks
• The short version of Nik's thesis:The Needfinding Machine (Martelaro & Ju)

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Links & Articles

• Introducing OpenAI Frontier
• The Return of The Intuitive Designer in the Age of AI
• Getting started with Cowork
• What are Forward Deployed Engineers, and why are they so in demand?

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Links & Articles

• 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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Links & Articles

• 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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Links & Articles

• Impeccable: Design fluency for AI coding tools
• AI as Entertainment (arXiv paper)
• The Four Horsemen of the AIpocalypse

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Links & Articles

• Conversations that Convert: Copilot Checkout and Brand Agents
• Introducing A2UI: An open project for agent-driven interfaces
• Razer Project Ava

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