
Dan Saffer
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Search complete. 10 mentions across 4 episodes found for "Dan Saffer".
Nov 4, 2026
Illegible Design Systems, MIT Predicts Your Next Words, Experts Follow AI, and guest Nicole Donnelly
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0:10Nick MartellaroHOST
I'm Nick Martellaro.
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0:12Nick MartellaroHOST
And I'm Dan Saffer, and we're
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faculty at Carnegie Mellon's Human-Computer Interaction Institute.
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Each week, we break down the latest AI developments, dive deep into topics that matter to designers, and talk with fascinating guests who are right at the intersection of these fields.
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15:55Nick MartellaroHOST
And if it learns that and it goes, hey, you shouldn't do that much, does it start to email people back and just go, no, Nick doesn't say no enough, but I'm going to act as the enforcer here? Or does it simply draft an email for you and then you look at it and it maybe gives you rationale, says, hey, you have this predictive behavior pattern, but we've discussed your goals and so this is how you can avoid this.
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16:17Nick MartellaroHOST
Or does it simply just present to you, hey, you seem to do this a lot and how do you think you should do it? I can imagine that these can work on different levels.
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16:26Nick MartellaroHOST
And so as designers, if you can predict what people are going to do, the question is, What do you do with that information? I mean, Dan, actually, I imagine that maybe given some of your work, I mean, people have been predicting or trying to predict people's behavior for so long.
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16:43Nick MartellaroHOST
And I imagine that designers have actually been wrestling with this question for a long time.
Structured AI Context, How PMs are Being Affected by AI, A Conversation with Junior Designers
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Welcome to AI and Design, where we explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping the world of design.
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0:11Dan SafferHOST
I'm Dan Saffer.
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0:13Nick MartellaroHOST
And I'm Nick Martellaro, and we're faculty at Carnegie Mellon's Human-Computer Interaction Institute.
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Each week, we break down the latest AI developments, dive deep into topics that matter to designers, and talk with fascinating guests who are right at the intersection of these fields.
OpenAI's Intelligent UI, Facebook's Your Algorithm, AI Relationship Quality (ARQ)
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0:11Nick MartellaroHOST
I'm Nick Martellaro.
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And I'm Dan Saffer, and we're faculty
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at Carnegie Mellon's Human-Computer Interaction Institute, the HCII.
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Each week, we break down the latest developments, dive deep into topics that matter to designers, and talk with fascinating guests who are right at the intersection
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So this kind of interface could be generating what I need as I need it.
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10:33Dan SafferHOST
And I think that's a really interesting interaction design opportunity.
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10:38Nick MartellaroHOST
Yeah, Dan, I actually really like that idea of working across my applications.
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10:44Nick MartellaroHOST
I have to do a lot of work and I don't get, say, more customized or specialized interfaces that would work better by integrating multiple pieces of software.
Live at IxDA Pittsburgh - How to be a designer in 2027
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of design.
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0:13Nick MartellaroHOST
I'm Dan Saffer.
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0:14Nick MartellaroHOST
I'm Nick Martellaro, and we're faculty at Carnegie Mellon's Human-Computer Interaction Institute.
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Each week, we break down the latest AI developments, dive deep into topics that matter to designers, and talk with fascinating guests who are right at the intersection of these fields.
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1:25Dan SafferHOST
So that's the theme of tonight's
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show.
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1:29Nick MartellaroHOST
Yeah, a lot of what Dan and I have been doing both with the podcast and in our classes is just really trying to dive into what's going on today in the world of design.
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1:41Nick MartellaroHOST
How are all the new developments in AI changing things? And what are we doing to try to keep up in many ways? And I guess that's