OpenAI’s Head of Design: This is the best time in history to be a designer | Ian Silber

0:00I've been doing this sentiment survey of the tech workforce.

0:03Surprisingly, designers are just the most unhappy on every dimension.

0:08We're unclear right now what is expected of a designer.

0:11Someone who might be classically trained in a certain way of working, now feeling like, oh my gosh, I need to really change everything.

0:17You believe this is the best time in history to be a designer?

0:20We're all extremely early in this process.

0:22There's just a huge opportunity for designers.

0:25Nobody should feel behind right now.

0:28I think that if you literally started today, you're going to have a leg up on pretty much most people.

0:32There's just so much opportunity to change the way we work, to make great things.

0:36If you look at engineering, it's just a completely new job versus a few years ago.

0:41I'm curious how that translates to product design.

0:43Engineers have 10 or sometimes like 100x their productivity, but our design team hasn't because the design process still takes time.

0:51It's still, sometimes you have to try a bunch of things and throw them out.

0:54Still very messy and fluid.

0:56We had a podcast with Net of Design Club Code, Jenny Wynn, she talked about there's been this traditional design process.