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“Good people can use the tools. Great people know why and how. It's about arming them with the fundamentals, the underlying principles, the values involved: adaptability, curiosity, collaboration.”

“I think of AI as a medium.”

“Just like the Web days, AI is open, inviting anybody to come in and take part. It's the best time if you care about creativity. This is a time for visionaries.”

“The human part of AI is the most important.”

“While people are expected to have some skills — and those will be changing — I think the real focus is the higher-level stuff. It's creativity. It's perspective. It's how to integrate and synthesize whatever materials are available, or that you have, to achieve the higher goal of art and design.”

“I think the most important role is problem-solving. When we prescribe a series of steps, a framework, or some way to think — that's going to be disrupted. Designers have to be willing to improvise and experiment.”

“How do you shift your mindset from being a wrench turner to somebody with a point of view? That's going to be the critical infrastructure of tomorrow in terms of ideas.”