Understanding Users: The UX Podcast 56. How will AI change the make-up of digital design teams in the future? - Chris Reardon, former Head of Product Design, Responsible AI @ Meta (Part 1)
“I think the biggest thing is that with AI, you are definitely going to create net new roles in the in the team that you had never thought of before. And there's not going to be a playbook for that, and the HR person and the recruiter is not going to know how to help you with that and you're gonna have to figure those things out together as a team…Design will be less about UI in the future and more about different methods of communicating…”
Chris Reardon was formerly Head of Product Design, Responsible AI @ Meta and is now Design Director - AI Envisioning Studio, Technology & Society @ Google.
Over the course of the next four episodes I talk to Chris about his own career journey at the cutting edge of designing artificial intelligence products, his views on the impact of AI on design as a discipline, the roles and responsibilities that will be needed for design leadership in AI, how AI might influence individual design careers.
In this episode we talk about his career and how AI is likely to impact the makeup of product teams.
Chris is hugely experienced, impassioned and persuasive, and he shares plenty of nuggets of his hard-won wisdom that anyone in any organisation considering working in the AI space should reflect upon.
I hope you enjoy this episode and find something thought-provoking to consider in the context of your own work.
Thanks for listening.