Lenny’s Podcast78 min
OpenAI’s Head of Design: This is the best time in history to be a designer
Ian Silber · Aug 16, 2026
Key learnings
- Designers are still early in adapting to AI; nobody has a settled design process, so starting to experiment today already gives…
- Design work has not sped up as much as engineering because the process still requires messy iteration, trying and discarding…
- Use AI tools across the whole design process, including dropping early ideas into a coding or agent tool to prototype and think…