Talks
Insight and inspiration about emerging interfaces and technologies—and what they mean for you.
Upcoming
SXSW
March 15 –
21, 2027
Austin,
TX
2027 Sentient Design Report: The State of Intelligent Interfaces
- Josh Clark & Veronika Kindred
- Date to be announced
Onstage and on the Pods
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Boagworld: Designing Beyond the Chatbot
Josh and Veronika joined the irrepressible Paul Boag for a podcast adventure about Sentient Design, newly possible experiences, and how to weather generational shifts in craft.
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Power of Ten: Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred
Is design ready to put aside its fascination with process and operations and return to actual product invention? Josh and Veronika join Andy Polaine to explore what Sentient Design means for design culture and practice.
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Productive Magic on the Rosenfeld Review
How do teleportation, gliding suitcases, and magic wishes unlock the next chapter of product design? Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred explore “productive magic” as a critical tool for working with emerging technology.
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Design Better AMA: Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred
Josh and Veronika dish real talk about AI fatigue and speed at the cost of quality. But they share the good news, too: the huge opportunity to create newly possible experiences with Sentient Design.
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Sentient Design @ SXSW
Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred explore Sentient Design—and the AI opportunities for designers to create new, radically adaptive experiences.
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Lean Stories: AI as Design Material
Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred join Jonathan Bertfield to explore how the Lean methodology supports Sentient Design and other innovation work, digging into the messy realities of innovation in complex organizations.
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UX Fika: Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred
Don’t settle for an interview that “only” talks about the future of design when you can also get life advice about the Beastie Boys, embarrassing childhood stories, practical magic, and what it’s like for this father-daughter duo to work together.
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Commit & Push: Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred
This podcast conversation with Damien Filiatrault gets concrete about how Sentient Design actually works: the patterns, the architecture, and the design decisions behind intelligent interfaces.
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Sentient Design: AI and the Next Chapter of UX
Josh Clark introduces Sentient Design, the already-here future of intelligent interfaces and AI-mediated experiences. Learn to design radically adaptive experiences that feel almost self-aware in their response to user needs.
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Video Series: Foundations of Sentient Design
Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred lead a three-part video series to introduce the principles and practice of Sentient Design and AI-mediated experiences.
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Design Better: Sentient Design
Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred join the Design Better podcast to talk about intelligent interfaces beyond chat, intergenerational design, and what designers can learn from Wile E. Coyote.
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Design of AI: Sentient Design
Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred share the importance of design in shaping AI-powered experiences in this podcast conversation about Sentient Design, their new book, moving beyond the chatbot, generational views of technology, and much more.