What Ian Silber thinks about taste
Designer who led product design at OpenAI, including ChatGPT and Codex; previously at Artifact and, for eight years, Instagram.
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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Ian Silber has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsin some ways that I think nothing has changed as far as like what a great designer is. Our team I think does a lot of this is just thinking really deeply about like, what problem are we trying to solve? Who are we building this for? And let's try a bunch of different ideas and like, how do you kind of like converge on on an idea? And then of course craft and taste and you know, understanding of interaction patterns and and all of that. Like none of that has changed and I think is just as important
↗Ian Silber - What it's like designing at OpenAIyoutube.com 8th of 17 in this recording
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Their wordsI don't think like the the job of a designer is going away anytime soon. I think that if anything I think we'll be able to do more but I think that the core skills will still be just as important cuz I think people can recognize good software from bad software right
↗Ian Silber - What it's like designing at OpenAIyoutube.com 13th of 17 in this recording