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Siri AI, A New Interaction-Focused AI Lab, Four Design AI Jobs, Perplexity Computer Research
Jun 16, 2026
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Copilot Redesign, Is AI ever Done, Amazon Proteus, Miro's Head of AI Design Mark Boyes-Smith
Jun 10, 2026
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Figma and Stitch Updates, Design Memory, Fraude Design, Quilter CEO Sergiy Nesterenko
Jun 3, 2026
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Figma Design Agent, 2026 AI in Design Report, Synthetic Customers, Llewyn Paine on UXR
May 26, 2026
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AI Originality, Bolt-on AI, Special Guest: Fin's VP of Product Design Thom Rimmer
May 19, 2026
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| 6/16/26 |  Siri AI, A New Interaction-Focused AI Lab, Four Design AI Jobs, Perplexity Computer Research | A year ago the consensus was that AI would hurt Apple. Last week at WWDC they showed up with a real Siri AI, the privacy story nobody else can match, and the $$$ hardware to run it. The "AI for the rest of us" play might just work. Dan and Nik dig into what Apple actually shipped, why App Intents matter for designers, and the gut-punch reality that your year-old iPhone won't run it.Also this episode: Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky is building a design-led AI lab, and nobody can quite figure out what it's selling. Sarah Gibbons maps the four design jobs AI has created so far. And Perplexity's research with Harvard Business School claims agents can cut task time by up to 92% — with enough caveats to fill a show. LINKSSecret AI Lab Newshttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-04/airbnb-ceo-brian-chesky-plans-to-start-a-new-ai-companyThe Four Design Jobs AI Created (So Far)https://www.nngroup.com/articles/design-jobs-ai-created/Perplexity/HBS Researchhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2606.07489Thinking Machines Demo Videohttps://youtu.be/A12AVongNN4?si=ODvSCf9IKTzwBiiU | — | ||||||
| 6/10/26 | Copilot Redesign, Is AI ever Done, Amazon Proteus, Miro's Head of AI Design Mark Boyes-Smith | Dan and Nik dig into Microsoft's sweeping redesign of 365 Copilot , transforming the prompt box into a task-aware workspace, leaning into progressive disclosure, and positioning AI as an embedded layer across Word, Excel, and Outlook rather than a bolt-on feature. They also discuss Jeff Gothelf's argument that "done" means something fundamentally different for AI products, where probabilistic outputs require teams to write acceptance criteria as distributions and build failure triage into launch rather than after. Rounding out the news: Amazon's Proteus warehouse robots can now take natural-language direction from human workers, and a Salesforce designer shares how her team is mastering AI tools through peer-to-peer learning, a dynamic that gives Dan flashbacks to the early days of the web.Then Nik sits down with Mark Boyes-Smith, Head of AI Design at Miro, for a deep look at how one of the world's largest collaboration platforms is integrating AI at every layer. Mark walks through Miro's new Sidekicks and Flows features, including voice interaction and custom connectors, and talks candidly about how his distributed design team rapid-prototypes in code, branches and remixes ideas, and builds conviction before shipping. He also shares his thinking on designing for long-running agentic tasks, the coming challenge of multi-agent orchestration on an infinite canvas, and what resilience and "product taste" mean for designers navigating an era of relentless change.LINKSMicrosoft Copilot 365 Redesignhttps://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2026/05/28/introducing-a-new-design-for-microsoft-365-copilot/What “done” means when you’re shipping AI featureshttps://jeffgothelf.com/blog/what-done-means-when-youre-shipping-ai-features/Amazon's new Proteus warehouse robothttps://www.engadget.com/2187338/amazons-new-proteus-warehouse-robot-is-fully-autonomous/Designing how designers master AIhttps://uxdesign.cc/designing-how-designers-master-ai-642d8751d945New Miro Features at Canvas26https://www.youtube.com/live/qM-KxCr4I5I?si=HGtSokg95B9kO5k9 | — | ||||||
| 6/3/26 | Figma and Stitch Updates, Design Memory, Fraude Design, Quilter CEO Sergiy Nesterenko | Updates to Figma and Google Stitchhttps://www.figma.com/blog/figma-make-now-on-your-local-codehttps://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-labs/stitch-updates/The Design System Advantage is Memoryhttps://learn.thedesignsystem.guide/p/the-design-system-advantage-is-memoryFraude Designhttps://fraude.design/Nik's Interview with CEO of Quilter, Sergiy Nesterenkohttps://www.linkedin.com/in/sergiynesterenko/https://www.quilter.ai/ | — | ||||||
| 5/26/26 | Figma Design Agent, 2026 AI in Design Report, Synthetic Customers, Llewyn Paine on UXR | This week we talk about Figma's new design agent integrated right on the canvas, the 2026 State of AI in Design Report, and Bain's experiment with synthetic customers. Then Dan interview Llewyn Paine about the future of UXR and design and gives a preview of the Rosenfeld Designing with AI Conference 2026 https://rosenfeldmedia.com/designing-with-ai/Show Notes:The Figma Design Agent is Here | Figma BlogState of AI in DesignSynthetic Customers Earn Their Stripes | Bain & Companyhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/llewyn/ | — | ||||||
| 5/19/26 | AI Originality, Bolt-on AI, Special Guest: Fin's VP of Product Design Thom Rimmer | When you collaborate with AI on a piece of work, whose thinking is it, really? That question runs underneath what a lot of designers and creatives are arguing about right now, and this week on AI and Design, Nik and Dan dig in.We start with Giorgio Schirò's "The thinking was never just mine," which uses Andy Clark and David Chalmers' "extended mind" theory to argue that creativity has always been distributed: our taste comes from books, films, teachers, and a thousand inputs we don't normally count. AI doesn't invent this loop; it just makes it faster and leaves receipts. Then we turn to Revanth Krishna's "Don't Simply Bolt On AI, Rethink From the Ground Up," using Anthropic's new Claude for Small Business as a worked example of what AI-native enterprise software might actually look like — and what trust and brand mean when the AI inside your tool isn't built by the company whose name is on the box.Our guest is Thom Rimmer, VP of Product Design at Fin. Thom tells the story of how his company decided, over a single weekend in late 2022, to bet the entire business on AI and rebuild from the ground up. We get into what that did to the org: 95% of PRs now authored by Claude Code, designers shipping production code, the design system's source of truth moving from Figma to markdown files, and what's left of the design job when the artifacts get cheap.LINKSUI for AIhttps://uiforai.designThe Thinking Was Never Just Minehttps://uxdesign.cc/the-thinking-was-never-just-mine-9b73cc04c837Don’t simply bolt on AI. Rethink from the ground up.https://uxdesign.cc/dont-simply-bolt-on-ai-rethink-from-the-ground-up-ae73a9093cd2Introducing Claude for Small Businesshttps://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-small-businessOperatorhttps://fin.ai/operator | — | ||||||
| 5/12/26 | Cognitive Surrender, Speed isn't The Bottleneck, and special guest PM Thomas Groendal | Wharton researchers fed people AI-generated answers, half of them deliberately wrong. The participants accepted them 73% of the time — and their confidence went up. They're calling it "cognitive surrender." Nik and Dan dig into what separates it from plain old cognitive offloading, and the design moves that might pull people back.Then: Ethan Ding's "Claude Code Is Not Making Your Product Better," and why taste, not coding speed, is the bottleneck for product quality.Finally, Tom Groendal, Senior Product Manager at CACI's DarkBlue Intelligence Group, on what AI actually looks like inside a working product team: melting role boundaries, a "product brain" repo that doubles as institutional memory, and the new role that keeps surfacing in conversation after conversation — the context manager.LINKSThinking - Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrenderhttps://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6097646Cognitive Surrenderhttps://addyosmani.com/blog/cognitive-surrender/Creative Tools: The Case for Keeping AI Unfinishedhttps://medium.com/ui-for-ai/creative-tools-the-case-for-keeping-ai-unfinished-80c601821b53claude code is not making your product betterhttps://ethanding.substack.com/p/claude-code-is-not-making-your-productObviously Awesome (book)https://amzn.to/433nIkR | — | ||||||
| 5/5/26 | Agent Users, New Design Team Structures, Team Dynamics, AI Chat Problems, Constraints Not Prompts | Dan and Nik talk about how to design for your next user being an agent, the impact of AI on team structure and dynamics, the challenge of memory and recall in conversation-based AI systems, and the shift towards AI experience design focused on constraints, not prompts. Chapters00:00 Your Next User is an Agent12:23 Rethinking the Shape of Design Teams in AI World17:03 The Impact of AI Efficiency on Team Interactions24:39 The Forgotten Conversation Problem in AI31:14 The End of Prompting: AI Experience Design with ConstraintsLINKSYour product has a new user. It’s not human.https://www.elenaverna.com/p/your-product-has-a-new-user-its-notRethinking the shape of design teams in an AI worldhttps://uxdesign.cc/rethinking-the-shape-of-design-teams-in-an-ai-world-82f986bf9a27The “Bug-Free” Workforce: How AI Efficiency Is Subtly Disrupting The Interactions That Build Strong Teamshttps://www.smashingmagazine.com/2026/04/bug-free-workforce-ai-disrupting-teams/The forgotten conversation problem in AI chathttps://uxdesign.cc/the-forgotten-conversation-problem-in-ai-chat-4d3d0c3ea525The End of Prompting: Why the Future of AI Experience Design Is Constraint-Firsthttps://uxmag.com/articles/the-end-of-prompting-why-the-future-of-ai-experience-design-is-constraint-first | — | ||||||
| 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 | — | ||||||
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| 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. | — | ||||||
| 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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