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Deep Dive: AI Skills (with Google's MC Dean)
Apr 28, 2026
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Claude Design, Innovative AI and Design Research from CHI 2026
Apr 21, 2026
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Insights from Anthropic's Head of Design, Why AI UX Sucks, AI Aesthetics, Human-Centered Design 2.0
Apr 14, 2026
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Deep Dive: The Future of Design Practice and Process (with author Mike Kuniavsky)
Apr 7, 2026
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Claude Computer Use, Product Intuition, Author Chris Noessel ("Designing Assistant Technology")
Mar 31, 2026
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 4/28/26 |  Deep Dive: AI Skills (with Google's MC Dean) | Google's MC Dean, the author of over 100 AI skills for designers on everything from accessibility to moods, joins Nik and Dan to talk about Skills: how to make them, how to use them, and what the future of them could be.LINKSMC Dean on Substackhttps://marieclairedean.substack.com/MC Dean on Githubhttps://github.com/owl-listenerSurely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman bookhttps://amzn.to/4sYGQek | — | ||||||
| 4/21/26 | Claude Design, Innovative AI and Design Research from CHI 2026 | Surprise surprise, Dan and Nik talk about Anthropic's launch of Claude Design. The Nik does a set of rapid-fire interviews from the 2026 CHI conference, featuring the latest HCI research in AI and Design. | — | ||||||
| 4/14/26 | Insights from Anthropic's Head of Design, Why AI UX Sucks, AI Aesthetics, Human-Centered Design 2.0 | Dan checks out a Fast Company interview with Anthropic's Head of Design Joel Lewenstein and finds reasons for hope. Dmitry Kargaev points out the flaws of AI UX and has some reasons for why is happens. A catalog of AI brand archetypes, and Dan applauds Patrizia Bertini's call to rethink Human-Centered Design to be less about "users" and more about "citizens."Links:Fast Company Interview with Joel Lewensteinhttps://www.fastcompany.com/91519289/inside-anthropics-biggest-design-choicesAI Products Have Terrible UX: Here's Whyhttps://hackernoon.com/ai-products-have-terrible-ux-heres-whyAesthetics of AIhttps://www.acolorbright.com/en/insights/aesthetics-of-aiHuman-Centred Design has grown up. It’s time we did toohttps://uxdesign.cc/human-centred-design-has-grown-up-it-is-time-we-did-too-766601c1fc7dWe're All Doing The Same Job Nowhttps://odannyboy.medium.com/were-all-doing-the-same-job-now-81924e0c80d6The Existential Designerhttps://odannyboy.medium.com/the-existential-designer-facilitating-meaning-through-interaction-8952c358ec52 | — | ||||||
| 4/7/26 | Deep Dive: The Future of Design Practice and Process (with author Mike Kuniavsky) | Dan, Nik, and special guest Mike Kuniavsky ("Observing the User Experience") do a deep dive into the impact of AI on the traditional design practice and process. They get into the disappearing/evolving role of design artifacts, the influence of AI on design literacy, and the reevaluation of the design process in the age of AI. AI has triggered the democratization of design tools, a shift in organizational power dynamics, and ofttimes the complete disregard for of unknown unknowns. They also explore the changing product risk surface, the redefinition of scale in design practice, and the role of synthetic users in user-centered design.LINKS:Mike's article "Design practice assumes a world that no longer exists: what’s next?" https://medium.com/@mikekuniavsky/design-practice-assumes-a-world-that-no-longer-exists-whats-next-ca3f588ad4d8Other recent articles on Design Process:https://www.nngroup.com/articles/design-process-isnt-dead/https://www.nngroup.com/articles/design-process-isnt-dead/https://medium.com/@kristian.bjornhaug/the-design-process-isnt-dead-but-ai-is-changing-where-design-happens-220dce1b3acdhttps://medium.com/design-bootcamp/the-new-design-process-2-6-2b5967507263https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/design-process-isnt-dead-its-only-thing-save-us-rick-starbuck-7pbmc/“Cognitive surrender” leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/research-finds-ai-users-scarily-willing-to-surrender-their-cognition-to-llms/ | — | ||||||
| 3/31/26 | Claude Computer Use, Product Intuition, Author Chris Noessel ("Designing Assistant Technology") | Dan and Nik talk about Anthropic's latest announcement about computer use and its impact on how designers design screens. Then they discuss the article "AI didn't kill product intuition. It exposed who never had it." Author Chris Noessel stops by to talk about his new book Designing Assistant Technology and the challenges and considerations in designing AI to assist users. The conversation touches on the risks of descaling and over-reliance, and cthe importance of keeping cognitive engagement in AI design.https://amzn.to/414zOtahttps://www.productparty.us/p/ai-didnt-kill-product-intuition-it | — | ||||||
| 3/25/26 | Google Stitch, 2026 Design in Tech Report, Downloadable Design Skills | Dan and Nik offer opinions on Google Stitch, a new design tool that just dropped from Google Labs. They also dig deep into John Maeda's 2026 Design in Tech report, debating his key insights for designers in the evolving landscape of AI and design. Lastly, a discussion on the codification, sharing and future of downloadable design skills.Google Stitch: https://stitch.withgoogle.com/Design in Tech 2026: https://designintech.report/MC Dean's Skills: https://substack.com/@marieclairedean/p-190232071 and https://substack.com/@marieclairedean/p-190956350 | — | ||||||
| 3/17/26 | AI Image Editors, Institutional v Individual AI, Author Louise MacFadyen ("Designing AI Interfaces") | Nik and Dan talk about new AI image editing tools from Canva and Adobe and the value of baking AI right into existing tools. The conversation switches to a provocative new essay by George Sivulka on the importance of Institutional AI and not just Individual AI, which can be chaotic if it's not coordinated.https://x.com/gsivulka/status/2031797989908627849Lastly, Dan interviews Louise Macfadyn, author of the upcoming book Designing AI Interfaces.https://amzn.to/4lAf9qi | — | ||||||
| 3/10/26 | Very Special Hot Takes Episode: Product Sense, AI Brain Fry, Real Time UI and much much more | There was just too many interesting stories this week, so Nik and Dan do a Very Special Hot Takes episode with a wide-ranging conversation that covers 14 topics, including the importance of product sense, open source tools, the cultivation of design judgment, the urgency of AI regulation, the future of AI images, the impact of AI on design jobs, real-time UI, writing specs for AI agents, and breaking the echo chamber in interfaces. Chapters01:05 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 Products16:06 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 | — | ||||||
| 3/3/26 | Jenny Wen's Three Types of AI Designers, Designers Should Be Crushing It, Managing AI Pressure | Dan and Nik delve into the evolving role of designers in the age of AI, emphasizing the need for adaptability, control of your own process, and how vision and judgement are design's superpowers. This episode explores the impact of AI on the design process, the importance of maintaining focus on the work, and the challenges of keeping up with the rapid pace of change in the industry. | — | ||||||
| 2/24/26 | Code and Canvas, Computer Use Agents, The Mythical Agent-Month, Will "Taste" Save Designers? | Nik and Dan talk about another announcement from Figma and Anthropic and the impact on the future of design tools. They examine a new research paper from Apple and the HCII on how to best design computer use agents, and talk about Wes McKinney's article The Mythical Agent-Month. They end with discussing the role of taste in an AI world and if it is the skill designers should be focusing on. | — | ||||||
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| 2/18/26 | State of The Designer 2026, User Control of AI, Waiting is the New Interruption, AI Intensifies Work | Dan and Nik delve into the Figma's 2026 State of the Designer Report, people feeling like AI is being shoved at them, the challenges related to AI's impact on flow and attention, and the Harvard Business Report's implications of AI on job satisfaction and work intensification. | — | ||||||
| 2/10/26 | OpenAI's Frontier, The Return of The Intuitive Designer, Special Guest: Figma's Shane Johnson | Dan and Nik chat about OpenAI's new Frontier platform and what it might mean for designers and even their career paths. We then discuss James Harrison's essay "The Return of The Intuitive Designer." Then Dan interviews Shane Johnson, Principal User Researcher at Figma, on the role that user research has in this AI world. | — | ||||||
| 2/3/26 | Figma MCP, UX vs MX, OpenClaw, Creativity Research, and User Research in 2026 | Nik and Dan dive deep into Figma MCP and the need for a dual strategy for experience design, that considers both human and AI website visitors. Of course Clawdbot/Moltbot/OpenClaw came up. Some research on creativity, and finally the role of user researchers in the AI world. | — | ||||||
| 1/27/26 | Google AI Studio Design Mode, AI at Davos, Claude's Constitution, and Software Too Cheap to Meter | Dan and Nik discuss the rumor of Google's AI Studio getting a design mode, Anthropic and DeepMind CEOs at Davos talking about the future of AI, Anthropic's Constitution for Claude, and the concept of software too cheap to meter. | — | ||||||
| 1/20/26 | Impeccable, AI as Entertainment, The Four Horsemen of the AIpocalypse | Nik and Dan discuss Impeccable: a set of skills for AI agents to improve the "AI House Style" designs that AIs are churning out. Then, talking about a new research paper that suggests AI's greatest potential is as entertainment and cultural production. Lastly, we review Dan's article that categorizes four possible futures for AI, including AI disappearing into existing apps, specialized AI features, AI as an operating system, and AI as a universal intermediary. | — | ||||||
| 1/13/26 | Microsoft Copilot Checkout, Google A2UI, Razer Ava, 2026 Predictions | On this week's episode, Nik and Dan discussed:Microsoft’s Copilot Checkout, a new feature that lets US shoppers complete purchases directly inside Copilot without ever leaving the chat window.Google's A2UI, an open-source specification that allows AI agents to generate user interfaces on the fly.And straight from CES, a holographic AI desk companion from Razer.Plus: our AI and Design Predictions for 2026. | — | ||||||
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