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AI and Design

Dan Saffer and Nik Martelaro
AI and Design
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  • AI and Design

    Apple's Siri AI and Audio Intelligence, Project Solaris, Miro Sale, AI Tool Building

    16-09-2026 | 49 Min.
    In this episode, Dan and Nik unpack Apple's big announcements from its latest event, starting with Siri AI: now a dedicated app with personal context indexing, on-screen awareness, and in-app actions, launching in beta with iOS 27 . They dig into the promise and limitations of Apple-only app integration, the EU regulatory lockout, and what daily usage caps signal about Apple's services ambitions. The conversation gets more charged around Audio Intelligence, Apple's new always-on listening features for the Apple Watch, including live audio rewind and Siri Recap summaries of real-world conversations. Dan and Nik wrestle with the surveillance implications, the absence of any on-device indicator, and whether this crosses a line — particularly in two-party consent states like Pennsylvania and California.

    The back half covers Runway's Project Solaris, a generative UI concept that uses its video model to render fully interactive, pixel-based interfaces with no underlying code. Dan sees echoes of Microsoft's Bob-era skeuomorphism and questions whether it misunderstands fifty years of HCI; Nik finds more to like in its challenge to the sameness of modern app design. They then turn to the surprise sale of Miro to Bending Spoons for $1.36 billion — a 90% haircut from its 2021 peak valuation — and what it means when a profitable, hundred-million-user company gets absorbed into a portfolio known for maintaining but not advancing its acquisitions.

    The episode closes with a discussion of Benedict Evans' essay "AI, Tools and Transformation," which argues that the Silicon Valley vision of everyone rolling their own SaaS tools misunderstands how most people think about their work.

    LINKS
    Introducing Solaris
    https://runway.com/news/research/introducing-solaris

    Bending Spoons to buy collaboration tools maker Miro for $1.36B, 90% less than its 2022 valuation
    https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/10/bending-spoons-to-buy-collaboration-tools-maker-miro-for-1-36b-90-less-than-its-2022-valuation/

    AI, Tools and Transformation (Benedict Evans)
    https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2026/9/3/ai-tools-and-transformation
  • AI and Design

    Mobbin MCP, Perplexity and Nvidia Local AI Agent, Design Ledgers

    02-09-2026 | 34 Min.
    This week on AI and design, we highlight the release of Mobbin's MCP, Perplexity and NVIDIA's local AI agent, and the concept of design ledgers. Dan also has some new speaking engagements you can join coming up.

    Chapters
    00:00 Introduction to AI and Design
    01:11 Upcoming Speaking Engagements
    04:44 Mobbin's MCP Release
    11:34 Perplexity and NVIDIA's Local AI Agent
    23:54 The Concept of Design Ledgers

    Show Notes
    https://mobbin.com/mcp
    https://venturebeat.com/infrastructure/perplexity-partners-with-nvidia-to-launch-portable-computer-a-fully-local-ai-agent-with-zero-token-costs
    https://www.proofofconcept.pub/p/the-ledger-of-design

    Dan's Speaking Engagements
    ShiftUX workshop: https://shiftux.rosenfeldmedia.com/workshops/designing-ai-for-humans
    ShiftUX talk: https://shiftux.rosenfeldmedia.com/program/day-2-turing-machines/
    Dan's ShiftUX Discount Code: SAFFER-SHIFT26

    Chicago Camps' Leadership by Design: https://chicagocamps.org/event/leadership-by-design-2026/
  • AI and Design

    Figma Make Time Savings, LLM Bias Affects Designers, Target's AI/UX Bid, EasyCircuit

    25-08-2026 | 39 Min.
    Nik and Dan open the fall semester with a look at how their own courses have been rebuilt around AI this year. Nik's third run of AI Augmented Designer now leans hard into professional software development practice. Dan is teaching Designing for AI Products and Services, an Advanced Interaction Design Studio reworked around AI-ready design systems, and a new independent study with Brad Myers on "AI widgets" — what happens when scroll bars, cut-and-paste, and other decades-old microinteractions get smarter.

    This week’s news: Figma's randomized controlled trial on Figma Make found roughly 20% time savings, but Nik pushes on whether a 52-minute task dropping to 45 minutes actually feels different, or whether the real gain is more iteration cycles. Maud Benaddi's article on bias in LLMs prompts a discussion of how training-data skew shows up in generated personas, AI-assisted copy, and flattened qualitative research summaries; Nik connects it to Liz Gerber's exercise having students generate personas of themselves and watch the class recoil. Target's appointment of its first chief AI officer, Chandhu Nair, alongside Purvi Shah as SVP of UX, gets read as a welcome sign of AI and UX paired around real operational value rather than an AI strategy for its own sake. We close on EasyCircuit, a new app for vibe-coding hardware prototypes — fun, promising, and, as Nik found when a wiring render would have let the blue smoke out, a reminder that basic usability QA still matters.

    LINKS
    Measuring Time Savings From Figma Make
    https://www.figma.com/blog/measuring-time-savings-from-figma-make/

    Bias in LLMs, or how to design for everyone with tools built for someone — Maud Benaddi
    https://medium.com/@maudbenaddi/bias-in-llms-or-how-to-design-for-everyone-with-tools-built-for-someone-01b8e38bd17b

    Target Strengthens AI and UX Capabilities to Power Its Next Chapter of Growth
    https://corporate.target.com/news-features/article/2026/08/chandhu-nair-purvi-shah

    EasyCircuit
    https://easycircuit.app/

    Dr. Liz Gerber’s LinkedIn post
    https://www.linkedin.com/posts/elizgerber_ai-builds-cardboard-cutouts-of-people-not-share-7440452615232024576-aS5k/
  • AI and Design

    Deep Dive: Andy Budd on the Future of the Design Industry

    18-08-2026 | 49 Min.
    Andy Budd — reformed designer, coach to design leaders, and advisor at VC fund Seedcamp — joins Nik and Dan for a wide-ranging conversation about whether the design industry is about to boom or bust. Andy argues we hit "peak designer" around 2021–22, and that we're now in an era of Schrödinger's design and nobody has opened the box. The bull case is that AI hands designers the means of production. No more petitioning product managers for backlog space or begging engineering for a prototype — designers can spot the debt, fix it, and ship it. The bear case is that everyone else got there first. Product managers can now design, engineers can now do discovery, and design shrivels down to a five-person team babysitting the design system for a 300-person engineering org.

    We talk about taste of course, but Andy points out that everyone thinks they have taste. He also revisits his poker-versus-chess framing — designers study the board and hate mistakes while their peers just want to play every hand. We end on a genuinely unsettled note about the industry itself. How are your house painting skills?

    LINKS
    The Bull And Bear Case For Digital Design In The Age Of AI https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2026/07/bull-and-bear-case-digital-design-age-ai/

    The Six Levels of Adaptive Software
    https://www.andybudd.com/archives/2026/06/the-six-levels-of-adaptive-software

    AI and the Mangrove Problem
    https://andybudd.com/archives/2025/09/ai-and-the-mangrove-problem

    The Growth Equation book
    https://www.andybudd.com/book/

    design + AI Summit — Brighton Dome, 24–25 September 2026
    https://designplusaisummit.com/

    Andy Budd's blog
    https://www.andybudd.com/

    Smilla’s Sense of Snow book
    https://amzn.to/4znTIPt

    Pattern Recognition book
    https://amzn.to/4znk9F5
  • AI and Design

    Summer 2026 Hot Takes

    11-08-2026 | 39 Min.
    This week, Dan and Nik make some hot takes on news that has come out this summer.

    Everyone's work is starting to look the same: https://marieclairedean.substack.com/p/everyones-work-is-starting-to-look

    LLMs reward expertise: https://www.seangoedecke.com/llms-reward-expertise/

    A Properties Panel and Annotations, Now in Figma Make: https://www.figma.com/blog/properties-panel-and-annotations-now-in-figma-make/

    Unpacking ChatGPT Work: the Agent for a Billion Users: https://www.latent.space/p/unpacking-chatgpt-work

    Agent Behavior (agentbehavior.dev)

    Measuring the UX of AI: https://measuringu.com/measuring-the-ux-of-ai/

    Type designers have created a free font that "poisons" AI: https://www.creativebloq.com/design/fonts-typography/type-designers-have-created-a-free-font-that-poisons-ai

    LinkedIn's new anti-slop button is coming to every platform: https://www.fastcompany.com/91584892/linkedins-new-anti-slop-button-is-coming-to-every-platform

    How writers are reacting to Substack’s AI transparency tools: https://on.substack.com/p/how-writers-are-reacting-to-substacks
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Two Carnegie Mellon faculty explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping the world of design. Each week, we'll break down the latest AI developments, dive deep into AI topics that matter to designers, and talk with fascinating guests who are right at the intersection of these fields.All views expressed are our own and not reflective of Carnegie Mellon or the Human-Computer Interaction Institute.
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