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16 Aug 2026 Lenny's Podcast OpenAI’s Head of Design: This is the best time in history to be a designer | Ian Silber
“I think to be useful, again, I love when people do show off the way they're working and how that's shifting.”
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- 16 Aug 2026
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…Ian, what an incredible place you have in the world right now, just being on the inside of such cool technology, such cutting edge stuff that's happening. And I feel very fortunate that you found time to chat with us and share what you're seeing and where things are heading. Two final questions. Where do you want to point people if you want to plug anything? And how can listeners be useful to you? Where do I want to point people? I mean, I think that please I guess have fun with the stuff we're making with ChatGPT and Codex and fire away feedback and thoughts. I'm on Twitter. I love to talk with designers about all sort of stages or not just designers, engineers, PMs, whatever. That's probably where I'm most reachable and accessible. I think to be useful, again, I love when people do show off the way they're working and how that's shifting. And that's a great way for us to learn how we can build better products, both internally at OpenAI, but just as a design community, maybe showcasing a little bit more of our process because it is becoming a little bit more opaque. Well, how is it working? I think sharing that is such a gift to the community. So doing more of that. Also point people to your website, which I have here now, and I think my face is probably changing colors because the site has all these crazy colors. So if you go to iansilber.com, you could see this insane website, the personal website.…
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