Vol 5: Designing with AI

This is our last event for the year! The last few have filled up, so register early. Frontier Creatives is where Seattle designers show how they actually work with AI: real screens, real process, including the parts that don’t work yet. We have a few short talks with plenty of networking time over free food and drinks. Speakers Emily Sullivan is a Seattle product designer who brings clarity to complex, high-stakes systems. Most AI tools box you into a chat window. In “Adapting Tools to Think Better,” she’ll show how she works beyond it, using space and motion to think through her designs. Ben Mullins spent seven months building things with AI he’d never have attempted before, including Jig Studio, a tool for fixing a website’s layout without opening Figma. In “The Rise of the Crab People,” he’ll argue that AI is pushing all of us toward the same shape, and that the last 20%, taste, and fluency are what separate good work from slop. Andrei Speridião is a senior designer at Microsoft. He built Chromnos, a custom watch that logs the color of his surroundings every minute, and his site turns each day of that data into a ring of color. He’ll walk through the design decisions behind it. Check in with the doorman, Suite 300. Want to present at a future Volume? Get in touch.