Ian Silber - What it's like designing at OpenAI

About this episode

Ian Silber discusses the unique aspects of designing at OpenAI and the impact of AI on design practices.

If you're like me you gotta be curious... what's it like designing at OpenAI? So I’m excited to share today’s episode with you :) It’s a deep dive with OpenAI’s Head of Product Design, Ian Silber ( https://x.com/iansilber ). Some highlights: **** - The traits of the best systems thinkers at OpenAI - What makes the design culture at OpenAI unique - The vision for OpenAI's dynamic interface library - What it's like designing around chat as a primitive - What makes designing with AI as a material so unique - How tools like Codex are changing the practice of design - + a lot more - Mike Matas and Brandon Walkin (creators of Origami) https://mikematas.com/ , https://medium.com/designatmeta/introducing-origami-live-and-origami-2-0-a68116294e65 - Cursor and Codex (AI coding tools) https://cursor.com/ , (https://chatgpt.com/codex/?c_id=23226110534&c_agid=188421385415&c_crid=800871103650&c_kwid=kwd-111182835&c_ims=&c_pms=9017288&c_nw=g&c_dvc=c&gad_campaignid=23226110534&gbraid=0AAAAA-I0E5dO-SVXduV4xJjtnqTNMNrAP)

People in this episode

Host: Ridd

Guest: Ian Silber

Topics covered

• design
• OpenAI
• AI tools
• product design
• systems thinking
• design culture

Keywords

• OpenAI
• design culture
• AI tools
• Codex
• Cursor
• product design
• systems thinking

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: OpenAI

Products: Codex, Cursor

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