Training Taste, AI Systems Thinking, LLM Counter Defaults, and special guest Dan Maccarone

Podcast: AI and Design · Dan Saffer and Nik Martelaro

Opublikowano: 2026-07-28

Everyone in design is yelling the same two words right now: taste and judgment. But how do you get them? David Hoang's "Training Design Senses" does, and this episode starts there: how to train the eye, design dexterity, fluency of aesthetics, and rhetoric, with a detour into what copying from masters means when the copying happens through an AI. Then Christine Zhu on systems thinking for agentic products, which asks PMs to stop shipping features and start gardening: decompose for agent experience, define contracts between the parts, build feedback loops that capture correction signals. Our last bit of news...