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Hot Takes and Big Themes from Config 2026
Season 1 Episode 24
Dan reports live from Figma's Config 2026 conference in San Francisco, talking with seven design leaders — Peter Merholz, Jesse James Garrett, Greg P…
7 hours ago
Siri AI, A New Interaction-Focused AI Lab, Four Design AI Jobs, Perplexity Computer Research
Season 1 Episode 23
A year ago the consensus was that AI would hurt Apple. Last week at WWDC they showed up with a real Siri AI, the privacy story nobody else can match,…
2 weeks ago
Copilot Redesign, Is AI ever Done, Amazon Proteus, Miro's Head of AI Design Mark Boyes-Smith
Season 1 Episode 22
Dan and Nik dig into Microsoft's sweeping redesign of 365 Copilot , transforming the prompt box into a task-aware workspace, leaning into progressive…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
Figma and Stitch Updates, Design Memory, Fraude Design, Quilter CEO Sergiy Nesterenko
Season 1 Episode 21
Updates to Figma and Google Stitch
https://www.figma.com/blog/figma-make-now-on-your-local-code
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-resear…
3 weeks, 6 days ago
Figma Design Agent, 2026 AI in Design Report, Synthetic Customers, Llewyn Paine on UXR
Season 1 Episode 20
This week we talk about Figma's new design agent integrated right on the canvas, the 2026 State of AI in Design Report, and Bain's experiment with sy…
1 month ago
AI Originality, Bolt-on AI, Special Guest: Fin's VP of Product Design Thom Rimmer
Season 1 Episode 18
When you collaborate with AI on a piece of work, whose thinking is it, really? That question runs underneath what a lot of designers and creatives ar…
1 month, 1 week ago
Cognitive Surrender, Speed isn't The Bottleneck, and special guest PM Thomas Groendal
Season 1 Episode 18
Wharton researchers fed people AI-generated answers, half of them deliberately wrong. The participants accepted them 73% of the time — and their conf…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Cognitive Surrender, Speed isn't The Bottleneck, and special guest PM Tom Groendal
Season 1 Episode 18
Wharton researchers fed people AI-generated answers, half of them deliberately wrong. The participants accepted them 73% of the time — and their conf…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Agent Users, New Design Team Structures, Team Dynamics, AI Chat Problems, Constraints Not Prompts
Season 1 Episode 17
Dan and Nik talk about how to design for your next user being an agent, the impact of AI on team structure and dynamics, the challenge of memory and …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Deep Dive: AI Skills (with Google's MC Dean)
Season 1 Episode 16
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: h…
2 months ago