Talks
Insight and inspiration about emerging interfaces and technologies—and what they mean for you.
Upcoming
Design Futures Assembly
April 29, 2026
San Francisco
- Josh Clark: Our New Design Material
An invite-only event with design and product leaders from Anthropic, OpenAI, Lovable, Figma, and more.
Sentient Design Workshop
May 13–14, 2026
Two-day online workshop
- Sentient Design: Craft Intelligent Interfaces with AI with Josh Clark & Veronika Kindred.
Hatch Conference
September 16, 2026
Berlin,
Germany
- Workshop: Designing AI Experiences that Adapt to User Intent with Josh Clark & Veronika Kindred
Onstage and on the Pods
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Sentient Design Workshop Courses
Learn to create intelligent interfaces in this two-day online workshop course. The next offering is May 2026.
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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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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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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.
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Online Event: AI and Design Systems
The Big Medium team shares the many ways that we use AI to build and maintain design systems. (You can totally do it, too.)
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When will AI Replace Us?
Kevin Coyle addresses and subdues fears about AI taking out jobs. (Spoiler: This isn’t a new problem.) Instead, he shows how your new robot colleagues can help you do your job even better—right now, today.
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A.I. Is Your New Design Material
Discover the opportunities to use machine-generated content, insight, and interaction as design material in your everyday work.