Ian Silber - What it's like designing at OpenAI

Ian Silber - What it's like designing at OpenAI

April 8, 2026 路 45 min 路 Episode 159

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鈥檓 excited to share today鈥檚 episode with you :) It鈥檚 a deep dive with OpenAI鈥檚 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)

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