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Aarron Walter

Nov 05, 2024

Episodes

Matthias Hollwich: AI & Architecture

Aarron Walter and Eli Woolery

Oct 9

Matthias Hollwich, principal and founder of New York architecture firm HWKN Architecture, has discovered AI is a powerful addition to architectural design. He and his team are using it to imagine how buildings might fit into the existing design of a city, and take cues from local history and culture. It’s yet another way AI is unexpectedly expanding creative horizons.

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Bonus: Eric Snowden, Head of Adobe Design, on AI + Design

Aarron Walter, Eli Woolery, and Eric Snowden

Apr 2

Bonus: Eric Snowden, Head of Adobe Design, on AI + Design

Adobe has been the big wrench in our creative toolbox for decades. But there’s a new tool shaking up our workflow —Generative AI. Eric Snowden, leader of Adobe’s design team, sees a big opportunity for designers to extend and enhance the creative process by folding generative AI into each of our tools and we wanted to get his take on what’s around the corner.

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Pablo Stanley: A creative force of nature on the importance of persistence and hustle

Aarron Walter and Eli Woolery

May 14

Pablo Stanley: A creative force of nature on the importance of persistence and hustle

Pablo Stanley’s creativity seemingly knows no bounds. Constant doodling is a key to his creative process, and has spawned countless projects including web comics like The Design Team and Stanley and Rupert, an illustration generation platform called Blush, and most recently Bueno, a platform that lets people build virtual worlds. Pablo makes us all feel like slackers!

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Carissa Carter and Scott Doorley: Assembling Tomorrow

Aarron Walter and Eli Woolery

Jun 25

Carissa Carter and Scott Doorley: Assembling Tomorrow

Carissa Carter and Scott Doorley are the authors of Assembling Tomorrow: A Guide to Designing a Thriving Future. Both authors work at Stanford’s d.school, where Carissa is the academic director, and Scott is creative director.

In this episode, we learn why they wrote the book, and how we might rethink our design processes in light of the rapid changes brought on by AI. We also discuss how we can shift our thinking from short-term gains to look at our moment in time from a broader perspective.

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Bonus: Adobe Design Talks on AI and the Creative Process

Aarron Walter

Jun 4

Bonus: Adobe Design Talks on AI and the Creative Process

Generative AI is finding its way into the tools and processes that power creative work. Exciting? Terrifying? Maybe a little of both. Adobe has been not only shipping impressive generative AI tools and features, but thinking about the implications this new technology could have on creative careers.

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Video AMAs

Events

AMA: James Buckhouse, Story-driven design

Aarron Walter, Eli Woolery, and James Buckhouse

Sep 13

AMA: James Buckhouse, Story-driven design

James Buckhouse got his start at Dreamworks Animation, lensing shots, crafting character arcs, and punching up story for some of the biggest franchises in popular entertainment, including Shrek, Madagascar, and The Matrix trilogies. These days, he's at Sequoia Capital helping companies create exceptional products and experiences. In this AMA, we'll talk with James about how Hollywood storytelling can inform and improve product design.

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Events

AMA: Josh Clark on AI and design systems

The Curiosity Department

Feb 5

AMA: Josh Clark on AI and design systems

Josh Clark, founder of Big Medium, has been helping Fortune 500 companies design for what's next for years. Mobile and design systems have been staples, but things are changing now that generative AI finds its way into the software design workflow.

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Dan Mall: Scaling design systems

Aarron Walter, Eli Woolery, and Dan Mall

Jul 9

There’s a reason why we’ve been talking about design systems for a number of years now—it’s the key to collaboration at scale. Few people get that more than Dan Mall who has helped the world’s most recognizable brands create design practices that are truly sustainable and successful.

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Articles

The Brief: Design thinking in the age of AI

Aarron Walter and Eli Woolery

Sep 27

The Brief: Design thinking in the age of AI

What does it mean to be a human-centered designer in the age of AI? This is something my colleague Bobby Hughes and I have been asking ourselves since we started running our AI+Design Thinking workshops this past Spring. In the past few months, we’ve learned a lot about how people want to apply generative AI to their design process, where they struggle, and where they’re succeeding.

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The Brief: Why taste is your most important design tool

Aarron Walter and Eli Woolery

Jun 5

The Brief: Why taste is your most important design tool

Generative AI is creeping into our tools and creative workflow, and it’s making it so much easier to arrive at polished work. But polish is only a small part of quality work. Our taste informs what we choose to create with the help of AI. It is our guide and the only thing that will keep our creative output original and surprising.

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