Season One

The Inflection
Point

  • Is craft still a differentiator if AI can generate a hundred options in ten seconds?
  • When engineering ships ten times faster, what does design even mean?
  • Am I here to make things, or just to approve them?
  • Does taste matter anymore — or just throughput?
  • Will the next generation of designers learn to design, or just to prompt?

Can design scale fast enough to matter?

The show

Ten Conversations.

Scaling Design brings together the sharpest design leaders working today — the ones in the trenches, finding new ways to work with AI and achieving real gains in quality and output. One season. No recurring guests. No filler. Ten conversations and done.

The format

A one-on-one interview with a design leader working inside a tech company. Twenty to thirty minutes. Questions planned in advance. Tight, professional, focused.

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Scaling Design in the Age of AI

About the host

Steven Schkolne

Designer, Computer Scientist, Founder

I built the world's first creative tools for virtual reality — a decade and a half before the technology was commercially available. I hold a PhD from Caltech, taught at CalArts, and spent a decade running a Los Angeles agency whose clients included Coca-Cola, Target, and Mattel. I've been writing and thinking seriously about human-machine creativity for twenty years.

Which is why the questions coming out of this moment feel so urgent to me. The Inflection Point is my attempt to find out — from the people actually in it — what design becomes next.

Scaling Design in the Age of AI  ·  2026