{"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: Andy Budd on the Future of the Design Industry","slug":"deep-dive-andy-budd-on-the-future-of-the-design-industry","published_at":"2026-08-18T11:45:13+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ai-and-design-7655455/deep-dive-andy-budd-on-the-future-of-the-design-industry","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ai-and-design-7655455","url":"https://api.riverside.com/hosting-analytics/media/d0d934e6be06648d19407d6af09a7c89b1bd491f537361a67a4c5856c90c5830/eyJlcGlzb2RlSWQiOiJlNjBhYTliZS1iNWZmLTQ5MzgtYmMyNS0wYjFiZTY2ZDQ2MDIiLCJwb2RjYXN0SWQiOiI2OWYxNTUxMS04OWI1LTQ5ODItYjg1YS00ZGViNjRjNDY5OWYiLCJhY2NvdW50SWQiOiI2NjhlOGUyODQ1ZGNmNDdmODQ0YjZlZDQiLCJwYXRoIjoibWVkaWEvY2xpcHMvNmE4NDQwM2Y3N2U4OTg0NWZjODUwYTFkL2Rlc2lnbmluZy1haS1jb21wb3Nlci0yMDI2LTgtMThfXzEzLTIxLTM0Lm1wMyJ9.mp3","audio_url":"https://api.riverside.com/hosting-analytics/media/d0d934e6be06648d19407d6af09a7c89b1bd491f537361a67a4c5856c90c5830/eyJlcGlzb2RlSWQiOiJlNjBhYTliZS1iNWZmLTQ5MzgtYmMyNS0wYjFiZTY2ZDQ2MDIiLCJwb2RjYXN0SWQiOiI2OWYxNTUxMS04OWI1LTQ5ODItYjg1YS00ZGViNjRjNDY5OWYiLCJhY2NvdW50SWQiOiI2NjhlOGUyODQ1ZGNmNDdmODQ0YjZlZDQiLCJwYXRoIjoibWVkaWEvY2xpcHMvNmE4NDQwM2Y3N2U4OTg0NWZjODUwYTFkL2Rlc2lnbmluZy1haS1jb21wb3Nlci0yMDI2LTgtMThfXzEzLTIxLTM0Lm1wMyJ9.mp3","summary":"Andy Budd — reformed designer, coach to design leaders, and advisor at VC fund Seedcamp — joins Nik and Dan for a wide-ranging conversation about whether the design industry is about to boom or bust. Andy argues we hit \"peak designer\" around 2021–22, and that we're now in an era of Schrödinger's design and nobody has opened the box. The bull case is that AI hands designers the means of production. No more petitioning product managers for backlog space or begging engineering for a prototype — designers can spot the debt, fix it, and ship it. The bear case is that everyone else got there first. Product managers can now design, engineers can now do discovery, and design shrivels down to a five-person team babysitting the design system for a 300-person engineering org. We talk about taste of course, but Andy points out that everyone thinks they have taste. He also revisits his poker-versus-chess framing — designers study the board and hate mistakes while their peers just want to play every hand. We end on a genuinely unsettled note about the industry itself. How are your house painting skills? LINKS The Bull And Bear Case For Digital Design In The Age Of AI https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2026/07/bull-and-bear-case-digital-design-age-ai/ The Six Levels of Adaptive Software https://www.andybudd.com/archives/2026/06/the-six-levels-of-adaptive-software AI and the Mangrove Problem https://andybudd.com/archives/2025/09/ai-and-the-mangrove-problem The Growth Equation book https://www.andybudd.com/book/ design + AI Summit — Brighton Dome, 24–25 September 2026 https://designplusaisummit.com/ Andy Budd's blog https://www.andybudd.com/ Smilla’s Sense of Snow book https://amzn.to/4znTIPt Pattern Recognition book https://amzn.to/4znk9F5","meta_description":"Andy Budd — reformed designer, coach to design leaders, and advisor at VC fund Seedcamp — joins Nik and Dan for a wide-ranging conversation about whether…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2989,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ai-and-design-7655455/episodes/deep-dive-andy-budd-on-the-future-of-the-design-industry/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-andy-budd-on-the-future-of-the-design-industry.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}