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Chatbots are not the final interface: OpenAI’s Head of Design on what’s next | Ian Silber

Ian Silber · 1h 12m · youtube.com ↗

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    the design process is really still very messy and fluid and you think you have a great idea and you try it and it sucks
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  3. 0:12:32 · watch on youtube.com↗

    nobody should feel like behind right now. I think that if you literally started today, you're going to have a leg up on pretty much most people.
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    We're all extremely early in this process and nobody really has like the it figured out.
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    I do think that the human element of design is going to really be start to become more and more important.
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    I really do think it's the best time to be a designer.
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    I've always found that these like single siloed um role definitions don't really make sense.
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    I think there's those lines have always been blurry, but they're becoming blurriier for sure.
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    I still find a lot of value, for example, in having like an excellent PM that can help rally multiple teams together
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    Maybe one way to put it is I think it already is an incredible um product designer.
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    I think that that's like an important thing for a designer to like really hone is like what is my point of view? What who am I building this for and why?
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    I think there's a lot of reasons why uh having that human in the loop is going to be so important.
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  22. 0:27:59 · watch on youtube.com↗

    I really believe in hiring a well-rounded team that has many different strengths.
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    we do not expect you to have a background in AI because again, this is evolving so quickly, but we definitely expect high curiosity about it
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    systems thinking um is becoming more and more important
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    like my encouragement has been do less there like don't design it if you don't have to.
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    maybe not be so precious about it until it's at the point where okay this is kind of hardened like we don't think that this is necessarily going to change tomorrow because of the technology
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    things will truly become like for billions of users when they don't have to like think about a switch or a mode or anything like that.
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    I think proactivity is a big untapped kind of part of the experience that we're really excited to think about.
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    we do think that there should be sort of this one universal input that you can ask that knows when it needs to answer like really quickly or it should be chatty or whether it should go and like go off and do work for you.
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    I think it's much better to be humble about it and be like wow yeah I don't know this is like changing quickly
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    really try to focus on the output the outcome, right? At the end of the day, we're not here to build tools like processes. We're not here to like build uh or token max or something like that.
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    There probably going to be a bunch of companies that will be left behind because they haven't shifted, but I think that that there's plenty of room for amazing, great design, and that's going to be more true than ever.