OpenAI’s Head of Design: This is the best time in history to be a designer | Ian Silber
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OpenAI’s Head of Design: This is the best time in history to be a designer | Ian Silber Ian Silber is the head of product design at OpenAI, where he has led the design of ChatGPT, Codex, and all of O
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I've been doing this sentiment survey of the tech workforce. Surprisingly, designers are just the most unhappy on every dimension. >> We're unclear right now what is expected of a designer. Someone who might be classically [music] trained in a certain way of working now feeling like, "Oh my gosh, I need to really change everything." >> You believe this the best time in history to be a designer. >> We're all extremely early in this process. There's just a huge opportunity for designers. Nobody should feel behind right now. I think that if you literally started today, you're going to have a leg up on pretty much most people. There's just so much opportunity [music] to change the way you work to make great things. >> If you look at engineering, it's just a completely new job versus a few year…
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