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Dan Saffer

Dan Saffer

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Nov 4, 2026

Nick MartellaroHOST
0:10
I'm Nick Martellaro.
Nick MartellaroHOST
0:12
And I'm Dan Saffer, and we're
Dan SafferHOST
0:13
faculty at Carnegie Mellon's Human-Computer Interaction Institute.
Dan SafferHOST
0:17
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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Nick MartellaroHOST
15:55
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.
Nick MartellaroHOST
16:17
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.
Nick MartellaroHOST
16:26
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.
Nick MartellaroHOST
16:43
And I imagine that designers have actually been wrestling with this question for a long time.
Dan SafferHOST
0:05
Welcome to AI and Design, where we explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping the world of design.
Dan SafferHOST
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I'm Dan Saffer.
Nick MartellaroHOST
0:13
And I'm Nick Martellaro, and we're faculty at Carnegie Mellon's Human-Computer Interaction Institute.
Nick MartellaroHOST
0:18
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.
Nick MartellaroHOST
0:11
I'm Nick Martellaro.
Nick MartellaroHOST
0:11
And I'm Dan Saffer, and we're faculty
Dan SafferHOST
0:13
at Carnegie Mellon's Human-Computer Interaction Institute, the HCII.
Dan SafferHOST
0:20
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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Dan SafferHOST
10:27
So this kind of interface could be generating what I need as I need it.
Dan SafferHOST
10:33
And I think that's a really interesting interaction design opportunity.
Nick MartellaroHOST
10:38
Yeah, Dan, I actually really like that idea of working across my applications.
Nick MartellaroHOST
10:44
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.
Nick MartellaroHOST
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of design.
Nick MartellaroHOST
0:13
I'm Dan Saffer.
Nick MartellaroHOST
0:14
I'm Nick Martellaro, and we're faculty at Carnegie Mellon's Human-Computer Interaction Institute.
Nick MartellaroHOST
0:18
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.
Dan SafferHOST
1:25
So that's the theme of tonight's
Nick MartellaroHOST
1:27
show.
Nick MartellaroHOST
1:29
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.
Nick MartellaroHOST
1:41
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

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