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Ian Silber

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The Design of Everyday Things

“It's funny, I'm not a big, big book recommender. I think when people ask me, I do get asked about books for design, and I haven't found that many that really have stuck with me purely design. Although I will say I do love the Design of Everyday Things. I think that's such a classic.”

Lenny's Podcast · 16 Aug 2026

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01 / recommendation

Likes The Design of Everyday Things.

“It's funny, I'm not a big, big book recommender. I think when people ask me, I do get asked about books for design, and I haven't found that many that really have stuck with me purely design. Although I will say I do love the Design of Everyday Things. I think that's such a classic.”
Speaker
Ian Silber
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

03 / belief

Generally what we've seen is that we believe in this idea of this is sort of capability overhang where the product, vast majority of the people are getting a sliver of the true value that they could out of the model.

“Generally what we've seen is that we believe in this idea of this is sort of capability overhang where the product, vast majority of the people are getting a sliver of the true value that they could out of the model.”
Speaker
Ian Silber
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

04 / belief

Of course they're going to continue to get better. But the way we think about it, and I really do believe this is we're building tools to enable people to be more creative, to do more, to build more.

“Of course they're going to continue to get better. But the way we think about it, and I really do believe this is we're building tools to enable people to be more creative, to do more, to build more.”
Speaker
Ian Silber
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

06 / belief

There are probably going to be a bunch of companies that will be left behind because they haven't shifted, but I think that there's plenty of room for amazing great design and that's going to be more true than ever.

“There are probably going to be a bunch of companies that will be left behind because they haven't shifted, but I think that there's plenty of room for amazing great design and that's going to be more true than ever.”
Speaker
Ian Silber
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

07 / belief

When we think of the super app, I think eventually we really think of the idea of, especially for our broad consumer base, we do think that there should be this one universal input that you can ask that knows when it needs to answer really quickly or should be chatty or whether it should go and go off and do work for you.

“When we think of the super app, I think eventually we really think of the idea of, especially for our broad consumer base, we do think that there should be this one universal input that you can ask that knows when it needs to answer really quickly or should be chatty or whether it should go and go off and do work for you.”
Speaker
Ian Silber
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

09 / belief

I think that's an important thing. And part of that is thinking outside of the bounds of what you're working on and thinking across everything I think is becoming much more important.

“I think that's an important thing. And part of that is thinking outside of the bounds of what you're working on and thinking across everything I think is becoming much more important.”
Speaker
Ian Silber
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

12 / prediction

I think the thinking is getting stronger the more that they're using these tools. So I think for the people that are starting to embrace this, they're starting to feel really excited and realizing that they have just so much agency as designers and so much more ability to have really high impact as a designer.

“I think the thinking is getting stronger the more that they're using these tools. So I think for the people that are starting to embrace this, they're starting to feel really excited and realizing that they have just so much agency as designers and so much more ability to have really high impact as a designer.”
Speaker
Ian Silber
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

13 / recommendation

Checking and making sure that important Slack messages that I need to follow up with are summarized and giving me context before important meetings or for recruiting or for every part of my process, I use this to augment the work that I do.

“Checking and making sure that important Slack messages that I need to follow up with are summarized and giving me context before important meetings or for recruiting or for every part of my process, I use this to augment the work that I do.”
Speaker
Ian Silber
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

14 / evaluation

There's the alignment of getting many people, especially in a bigger company, that still has a lot of overhead. So the point is that I think that we're unclear right now what is expected of a designer and that lack of clarity I can see totally lead to some fears or some unease, I guess.

“There's the alignment of getting many people, especially in a bigger company, that still has a lot of overhead. So the point is that I think that we're unclear right now what is expected of a designer and that lack of clarity I can see totally lead to some fears or some unease, I guess.”
Speaker
Ian Silber
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

15 / evaluation

I think that internally we see that more and more designers, we are completely empowered, to take an idea, to take a early research concept and try to figure out how we can actually package that up into something that people want to use or that solves some sort of unmet need for our customers.

“I think that internally we see that more and more designers, we are completely empowered, to take an idea, to take a early research concept and try to figure out how we can actually package that up into something that people want to use or that solves some sort of unmet need for our customers.”
Speaker
Ian Silber
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

16 / evaluation

Because if you have one person that's expected to design, to rally a team around something, to align a whole company, to do all the work that a PM does, for example, and also be designing it and also be engineering it, it might be hard to find one person that's good at all of those different skills.

“Because if you have one person that's expected to design, to rally a team around something, to align a whole company, to do all the work that a PM does, for example, and also be designing it and also be engineering it, it might be hard to find one person that's good at all of those different skills.”
Speaker
Ian Silber
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

17 / preference

I always tell candidates, we do not expect you to have a background in AI because again, this is evolving so quickly, but we definitely expect high curiosity about it and high aptitude to jumping in and learning how you're going to use this in your process, how it works.

“I always tell candidates, we do not expect you to have a background in AI because again, this is evolving so quickly, but we definitely expect high curiosity about it and high aptitude to jumping in and learning how you're going to use this in your process, how it works.”
Speaker
Ian Silber
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

18 / commitment

I feel kind of like a typical Silicon Valley person recommending this one or something, but I did finally switch to an EV after having many cars for a long time.

“I feel kind of like a typical Silicon Valley person recommending this one or something, but I did finally switch to an EV after having many cars for a long time.”
Speaker
Ian Silber
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

19 / preference

I think that we really embrace building in public, which is a different way of working. But I think that when you get comfortable with it is actually really gratifying or satisfying because you can try stuff and get instant feedback both internally and externally.

“I think that we really embrace building in public, which is a different way of working. But I think that when you get comfortable with it is actually really gratifying or satisfying because you can try stuff and get instant feedback both internally and externally.”
Speaker
Ian Silber
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast
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