Ian Silber

“Joel Lowenstein, who happens to be the head of design at Anthropic, is a good friend of yours... he said what he imagines the hardest part of your job is balancing the needs of the existing billion monthly active users of ChatGPT with the need to innovate.”

“Lenny's sentiment survey found designers are the most unhappy group in tech on every dimension — most overwhelmed, anxious, least optimistic, least likely to recommend their role.”

“Engineers have 10 or sometimes like 100x their productivity, but our design team hasn't. Because the design process still takes time.”

“Maybe one way to put it is I think it already is an incredible product designer. It really is actually already great. The cool thing about it though is it's accessible to every single person.”

“You weren't signing up for Groupon because of the daily deal alone. People loved that email because it was really well written and it was funny and it had character.”

“What is an interface that is very good at spanning a wide spectrum of intelligence? It's actually just talking. If you think about humans, we talk to people of low IQ to very high IQ. We can all just talk to each other, and it's actually a really good interface for packaging something that is increasingly smarter and smarter.”

“Ian Silber, Head of Product Design at OpenAI for three years. Previously at Artifact and spent eight years at Instagram.”

“"Technology has always changed very fast, but it's never changed quite like this." — Ian Silber”