# designing ai (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover designing ai. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Strategy and Patterns Shaping AI in Chrome](https://designmeetsai.substack.com/p/the-strategy-and-patterns-shaping) _2026-08-11 · Kursat Ozenc · Design Meets AI_ A conversation with Monica Gonzalez on agentic workflows, the compose plate, and AI as design's newest material ## [AI Design is Service Design](https://designmeetsai.substack.com/p/ai-design-is-service-design) _2026-08-05 · Kursat Ozenc · Design Meets AI_ Practical framework for bridging the frontstage and backstage of agentic systems. ## [The Designer-Builder: How AI is Collapsing Creative Boundaries](https://designmeetsai.substack.com/p/the-designer-builder-how-ai-is-collapsing) _2026-07-28 · Kursat Ozenc · Design Meets AI_ From Google Translate to Slack: Pendar Yousefi on the Future of AI and Design ## [The Six New Practices of a Context Designer](https://designmeetsai.substack.com/p/the-six-new-practices-of-a-context) _2026-07-23 · Kursat Ozenc · Design Meets AI_ Designing with AI is relationship design, and relationship runs on context. ## [There Is No Neutral Design: Megan Kasselberg, Senior UX Writer and Content Designer, Material Design](https://interfacecafe.com/there-is-no-neutral-design-megan-kasselberg-senior-ux-writer-and-content-designer-material-design/) _2026-07-15 · Liam Spradlin · Interface Café_ The storytelling and strategy that goes into a design system as vast as Material Design. ## [Made With AI: A new social norm proposal for writers and their readers](https://designmeetsai.substack.com/p/made-with-ai-a-new-social-norm-proposal) _2026-07-14 · Kursat Ozenc · Design Meets AI_ Writing with AI remains a sensitive topic, making both writers and readers slightly on edge, thanks to the AI slop degrading our collective reading experiences. ## [Designing Your AI Practice: Roles, Workflows, and Organizations](https://designmeetsai.substack.com/p/designing-your-ai-practice-roles) _2026-07-07 · Kursat Ozenc · Design Meets AI_ In this Design Meets AI issue, I want to touch on a few recent reports on AI’s evolving role in knowledge work. ## [AI as a Senior Hire, Not an Intern](https://designmeetsai.substack.com/p/ai-as-a-senior-hire-not-an-intern) _2026-06-30 · Kursat Ozenc · Design Meets AI_ Jess Holbrook on Managing AI like a Senior team member ## [The Rise of the Orchestrator IC](https://designmeetsai.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-the-orchestrator-ic) _2026-06-09 · Kursat Ozenc · Design Meets AI_ On building AI agent teams, maintaining quality, and being the grown-up in the room — a conversation with Saeideh Bakhshi, Quantitative Researcher at OpenAI ## [Designing With Claude: Four Learnings From Building AI By Design](https://designmeetsai.substack.com/p/designing-with-claude-four-lessons) _2026-05-28 · Kursat Ozenc · Design Meets AI_ Four lessons from using Claude to design aibydesign.studio: style, roles, remixing, and letting Claude critique its own work. ## [profullstack on Ko‑fi (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/UbcPql0gBM6l) _2026-05-28 · **Sponsored**_ Open the creator's Ko‑fi page. ## [New Plugin: Ratio Rulers 📐](https://interfacecafe.com/new-plugin-ratio-rulers/) _2026-05-26 · Liam Spradlin · Interface Café_ Recently, I've been playing around with different ratio-based grids, so I made a quick little plugin. ## [📺 Watch my I/O session on customizing Material Design](https://interfacecafe.com/watch-my-i-o-session-on-customizing-material-design/) _2026-05-22 · Liam Spradlin · Interface Café_ My colleague Bradley and I had the chance to film a quick session going over the upcoming customization features that will unlock broader expression using Material components. ## [📚 Check out this new Are.na channel about the interface](https://interfacecafe.com/check-out-this-new-are-na-channel-about-the-interface/) _2026-05-22 · Liam Spradlin · Interface Café_ Follow along if you want to see the ideas influencing my work as I find them. ## [☕️ Interface as Environment • Doubleshot](https://interfacecafe.com/interface-as-environment-doubleshot/) _2026-05-22 · Liam Spradlin · Interface Café_ Part of the work I’ve been doing during the hiatus centers on the role of the interface as an environmental facet of our lives. ## [The Designer as Curator: Rachel Been on Design After Vibe Coding](https://designmeetsai.substack.com/p/the-designer-as-curator-rachel-been) _2026-05-19 · Kursat Ozenc · Design Meets AI_ I came across Rachel Been’s LinkedIn post on vibe coding — it was one of the clearest takes I’d read on why design still matters in this moment. ## [Beyond the Text Field: Louise Macfadyen, Author of Designing AI Interfaces](https://interfacecafe.com/beyond-the-text-field-louise-macfadyen-author-of-designing-ai-interfaces/) _2026-02-17 · Liam Spradlin · Interface Café_ Managing the conceptual distance between what AI actually does and what people imagine it can do, with Designing AI Interfaces author Louise Macfadyen ## [The Story of Menu\_Open](https://interfacecafe.com/the-story-of-menu_open/) _2026-02-06 · Liam Spradlin · Interface Café_ How the menu\_open icon got encoded in Material Components history. ## [The State of Buttons](https://interfacecafe.com/the-state-of-buttons/) _2026-02-04 · Liam Spradlin · Interface Café_ The button's complexity is a result of how flexible the concept of a button really is. It's just a region of space on screen that triggers some action. ## [A Meditation on Gardening, Design, and Information](https://interfacecafe.com/meditation-on-gardening-design-information/) _2026-02-03 · Liam Spradlin · Interface Café_ It’s very hard to replicate the aesthetic pleasure of a moonvine on-screen. The composition suffers from a lack of texture. There’s no wind or rain inside a smartphone. ## [Google Sans Flex is Now on Google Fonts](https://interfacecafe.com/google-sans-flex-is-now-on-google-fonts/) _2025-12-18 · Liam Spradlin · Interface Café_ Google's brand font is now open-source on Google Fonts. ## [Trade Smarter With IBKR (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/gIw2DioW3I2t) _2025-12-18 · **Sponsored**_ Join Interactive Brokers through a referral and access low-cost global trading. ## [The Era of the Generalist: Rachel Been, SVP of Design for Expedia Group](https://interfacecafe.com/the-era-of-the-generalist-rachel-been-svp-of-design-for-expedia-group/) _2025-11-26 · Liam Spradlin · Interface Café_ How AI is breaking linear design paradigms and why, in an age of potential "design slop," deep curiosity and human-centered craft are more important than ever. ## [Humanity Will Always Be The Reference • Doubleshot](https://interfacecafe.com/doubleshot-humanity-ai/) _2025-11-26 · Liam Spradlin · Interface Café_ The “human edge” is simply humanity itself. ## [Levels of Abstraction • Doubleshot](https://interfacecafe.com/levels-of-abstraction-doubleshot/) _2025-10-22 · Liam Spradlin · Interface Café_ The aesthetic effect of mystery in design. ## [Other Than Expected: Fabian Bircher on Combining Art, Architecture, and Code](https://interfacecafe.com/other-than-expected-fabian-bircher-on-combining-art-architecture-and-code/) _2025-10-14 · Liam Spradlin · Interface Café_ Fabian discusses his unique creative process, where inspiration flows from both artistic concepts and the discovery of new technological possibilities. ## [Subscribe to Design Notes on YouTube](https://interfacecafe.com/subscribe-to-design-notes-on-youtube/) _2025-10-07 · Liam Spradlin · Interface Café_ Just a quick update while I prep the next episode of Design Notes: the podcast has a new presence on YouTube! 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