Designed by Humans

Designed by Humans

From Crossed Wires by James Bilsbrough & Jae Bloom

August 4, 2025 · 1h 22m · Episode 84

About this episode

The episode discusses the importance of human design in app interfaces and the impact of generative AI on the design process with guest Gedeon Maheux.

What makes a beautiful app interface, a stunning icon, or that little bit of UI magic that shows the care poured into the design process? Our returning guest is Gedeon Maheux, co-founder of Icon Factory, who joins Jae and James to talk about how human design will always beat out generative AI and how the latter is having a substantial impact on their business. Do you have a favourite app design, or maybe an icon that always gives you a certain feeling? We'd love to hear from you, so please send us a note to podcast@crossedwires.net, or why not come join the discussion on our Discord server. If you liked this episode or any of our content, we’d greatly appreciate any little bit of support you can throw our way over at our Ko-Fi page. Affiliate Promotion "Don't you people backup? I backup, and I don't even know what backing up means!" - Nicola Murray, Secretary of State for the Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship If you have any kind of file that's important to you, be that a treasured family photo, your latest research paper, or just the list of the co-ordinates of your best places in Minecraft, you'll want to make sure it's kept safe, right? Well, just syncing that to…

People in this episode

Hosts: James Bilsbrough, Jae Bloom

Guest: Gedeon Maheux

Topics covered

  • app design
  • user interface
  • generative AI
  • design process
  • cloud backup

Keywords

  • app interface
  • UI design
  • generative AI
  • Icon Factory
  • cloud backup

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Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Icon Factory

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