Product Design
Josh Clark
What should we build?
Sentient Design
Intelligent interfaces that adapt in real-time
“The biggest value comes from creating extraordinary new experiences that do things we couldn’t do before.”
AI as Medium
A new design material, not a faster tool
“All of these things are fine, but they miss the real opportunity.”
New Experiences
Things that couldn't exist before AI
“Self-designing dashboards, dynamic data visualizations, AI collaborators in multiplayer environments, autonomous agents.”
Microsoft Design
Jon Friedman
How do we design the infrastructure?
Living Systems
Adaptability, context, and memory over pixels
“You can’t build the future with the tools of the past… a design system must be anchored in a technology’s full potential.”
NL + GUI Hybrid
Conversational and graphical interfaces merged
“Users can seamlessly move from natural commands to interactive visualizations they modify in real-time.”
Everyone Directs
Clarity of vision, not control of execution
“Can you clearly articulate what you are trying to accomplish? Can you define the outcome without prescribing every step? Can you give agency to the system to surprise you with a better path?”
Agent Orchestration
Frameworks for agents and humans collaborating
“The future will not separate doers and delegators as cleanly as before. Everyone will need to be both.”
Daily Practice
Chris Wang
What does it feel like to work this way?
Human as Director
Vision, taste, judgment — not execution
“The human’s role is more like a director in filmmaking — giving goals, directions, inputs, feedback — rather than manually doing the execution work.”
Teaching Taste
Principles over fixes, philosophy over rules
“I didn’t dictate. I taught. And the student wrote its own notes.”
Grown, Not Built
Software emerges from interaction like a garden
“When you created intelligence, you design and build the Machine that designs and builds the thing.”
Runtime Learning
Co-evolution through interactive tools
“You don’t know your ideal spring physics until you’ve felt wrong spring physics. The exploration is the learning.”
Software as Byproduct
The artifact comes last, not first
“Software in the age of AI is the byproduct of the interaction you had with the AI… it’s almost like the last thing you create.”
LinkedIn CEO
Ryan Roslansky
What should professionals do about it?
Better at the Wrong Thing
Excelling at work being redesigned underneath you
“High performers who excel within existing systems may inadvertently optimize for roles being redesigned.”
Judgment Over Output
Emphasize decision-making, not raw production
“Emphasize judgment and decision-making over raw output. Redesign processes instead of mastering them.”
Move Early
Don't wait until you have to change
“The people who navigate platform shifts well rarely wait until they have to change. They move early.”
Climbing Wall, Not Ladder
Multiple paths, not linear progression
“Careers look less like ladders and more like climbing walls.”