{"podcast":{"title":"AI and Design","slug":"ai-and-design-7655455","podcast_index_feed_id":7655455,"rss_url":"https://api.riverside.fm/hosting/8P3kTQz9.rss","website_url":"https://aianddesignpod.com/","image_url":"https://hosting-media.riverside.com/media/podcasts/69f15511-89b5-4982-b85a-4deb64c4699f/logos/9dd5c6c1-00db-4a94-9d14-bf53aa6e417c.jpeg","author":"Dan Saffer and Nik Martelaro","episode_count":33,"summary":"Two Carnegie Mellon faculty explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping the world of design. Each week, we'll break down the latest AI developments, dive deep into AI topics that matter to designers, and talk with fascinating guests who are right at the intersection of these fields. All views expressed are our own and not reflective of Carnegie Mellon or the Human-Computer Interaction Institute.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-03T00:20:06.476491+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ai-and-design-7655455"},"episode":{"title":"Deep Dive: 2026 Figma AI Report with Figma's Andrew Hogan and Shane Johnston","slug":"deep-dive-2026-figma-ai-report-with-figma-s-andrew-hogan-and-shane-johnston","published_at":"2026-08-04T13:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ai-and-design-7655455/deep-dive-2026-figma-ai-report-with-figma-s-andrew-hogan-and-shane-johnston","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ai-and-design-7655455","url":"https://api.riverside.com/hosting-analytics/media/c2d79b23d11700b5f58792d6ad3c82a716a1bda2c74f89900e38eacf7a6b2585/eyJlcGlzb2RlSWQiOiI3YzQxYjgwOC1kMmViLTRjMmEtOWJlMy1hZjE4OWZhNDU2YzciLCJwb2RjYXN0SWQiOiI2OWYxNTUxMS04OWI1LTQ5ODItYjg1YS00ZGViNjRjNDY5OWYiLCJhY2NvdW50SWQiOiI2NjhlOGUyODQ1ZGNmNDdmODQ0YjZlZDQiLCJwYXRoIjoibWVkaWEvY2xpcHMvNmE2ZjVlYzgyZGY4Zjg1OTkyMDc1Mzk1L2Rlc2lnbmluZy1haS1jb21wb3Nlci0yMDI2LTgtMl9fMTctMTQtMTUubXAzIn0=.mp3","audio_url":"https://api.riverside.com/hosting-analytics/media/c2d79b23d11700b5f58792d6ad3c82a716a1bda2c74f89900e38eacf7a6b2585/eyJlcGlzb2RlSWQiOiI3YzQxYjgwOC1kMmViLTRjMmEtOWJlMy1hZjE4OWZhNDU2YzciLCJwb2RjYXN0SWQiOiI2OWYxNTUxMS04OWI1LTQ5ODItYjg1YS00ZGViNjRjNDY5OWYiLCJhY2NvdW50SWQiOiI2NjhlOGUyODQ1ZGNmNDdmODQ0YjZlZDQiLCJwYXRoIjoibWVkaWEvY2xpcHMvNmE2ZjVlYzgyZGY4Zjg1OTkyMDc1Mzk1L2Rlc2lnbmluZy1haS1jb21wb3Nlci0yMDI2LTgtMl9fMTctMTQtMTUubXAzIn0=.mp3","summary":"Andrew Hogan and Shane Johnston of Figma join Dan and Nik to unpack Figma's 2026 AI report. The headline is about AI shifting from individual productivity to team dynamics: 41% now say AI meaningfully changes how their teams work together, up from 7% two years ago. Shane and Andrew deliberately interrogate the \"10x everybody\" narrative: output is measurably up (lines of code, App Store submissions), but outcomes aren't following, because AI is exposing the communication and alignment seams that were always there. Handoffs can still be an issue. Prototypes are trivial to generate but very hard to dissect. And perhaps unsurprisingly, decision-making turns out to be the real bottleneck. The conversation also covers the blurring of roles (designers shipping fully functional AI-built prototypes jumped from ~10% to 61% in a year; developers doing design work is up sharply) and why developers are now among the loudest voices arguing design matters more. Andrew and Shane reframe role overlap as tax reduction rather than job-stealing — the designer who fixes the visual bug instead of filing the ticket — and make the case for the canvas as shared context, for design systems as the thing \"orchestrating relationships\" between functions, and for the four shapes of AI adoption (the nascent group has roughly halved to 18%). LINKS Figma's 2026 AI Report — blog post Full report / download Report microsite Andrew Hogan on LinkedIn Andrew Hogan, \"AI Fluency Isn't the Finish Line\" Shane Johnston on LinkedIn","meta_description":"Andrew Hogan and Shane Johnston of Figma join Dan and Nik to unpack Figma's 2026 AI report. The headline is about AI shifting from individual productivity…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2799,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ai-and-design-7655455/episodes/deep-dive-2026-figma-ai-report-with-figma-s-andrew-hogan-and-shane-johnston/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ai-and-design-7655455/deep-dive-2026-figma-ai-report-with-figma-s-andrew-hogan-and-shane-johnston.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}