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AI and Design

AI and Design

By: Dan Saffer and Nik Martelaro
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Summary

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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Episodes
  • Deep Dive: AI Skills (with Google's MC Dean)

    Deep Dive: AI Skills (with Google's MC Dean)
    Apr 28 2026

    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.

    LINKS

    MC Dean on Substack
    https://marieclairedean.substack.com/

    MC Dean on Github
    https://github.com/owl-listener

    Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman book
    https://amzn.to/4sYGQek
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    48 mins
  • Claude Design, Innovative AI and Design Research from CHI 2026

    Claude Design, Innovative AI and Design Research from CHI 2026
    Apr 21 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.
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    56 mins
  • Insights from Anthropic's Head of Design, Why AI UX Sucks, AI Aesthetics, Human-Centered Design 2.0

    Insights from Anthropic's Head of Design, Why AI UX Sucks, AI Aesthetics, Human-Centered Design 2.0
    Apr 14 2026

    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 Lewenstein

    https://www.fastcompany.com/91519289/inside-anthropics-biggest-design-choices

    AI Products Have Terrible UX: Here's Why

    https://hackernoon.com/ai-products-have-terrible-ux-heres-why

    Aesthetics of AI

    https://www.acolorbright.com/en/insights/aesthetics-of-ai

    Human-Centred Design has grown up. It’s time we did too

    https://uxdesign.cc/human-centred-design-has-grown-up-it-is-time-we-did-too-766601c1fc7d

    We're All Doing The Same Job Now

    https://odannyboy.medium.com/were-all-doing-the-same-job-now-81924e0c80d6

    The Existential Designer

    https://odannyboy.medium.com/the-existential-designer-facilitating-meaning-through-interaction-8952c358ec52
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    30 mins
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