OpenAI's Frontier, The Return of The Intuitive Designer, Special Guest: Figma's Shane Johnson

from AI and Design · host Dan Saffer and Nik Martelaro

Dan and Nik chat about OpenAI's new Frontier platform and what it might mean for designers and even their career paths. We then discuss James Harrison's essay "The Return of The Intuitive Designer." Then Dan interviews Shane Johnson, Principal User Researcher at Figma, on the role that user research has in this AI world.

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