Jesse Kulp - Designing the Future of AI at Google
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Jesse Kulp - Designing the Future of AI at Google

This week we get to hear from Jesse Kulp who is the original designer for Google AI Studio.

He shares what it was like going 0→1 as the sole designer and his ideas for where AI design is headed next

I think we're gonna look back in a couple years, the kind of silly stuff we're doing today and say it looks like child's play… Jesse Kulp

some highlights:

  • How Jesse transformed into the ultimate generalist
  • What Jesse learned about managing lots of stakeholders
  • Exploring different interaction modalities for AI in the future
  • How to handle ambiguity while working in a new problem space
  • How Jesse figured out the initial product strategy for AI Studio
  • a lot more

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