Thriving as a Designer in Hyperscale Startups

Today we get to hear from Ammaar Reshi who is the Head of Design at ElevenLabs—the AI audio platform that has come up multiple times in past episodes.

So a big focus of this conversation is learning what it's like designing an AI-native product. We go deep into topics like:

• The backstory of Ammaar’s viral AI experiments
• Predictions for the future of voice as an interface
• What it’s like collaborating with an research team
• How he’s designing novel interaction patterns for AI
• What Ammaar looks for when hiring startup designers
• What it’s like designing at multiple hyper growth startups
• a lot more

• Thread of all Ammaar’s AI experiments (including the viral book and podcast app)
• Ammaar mentioned chatting with Nate Parrott from the Browser Company
• Ammaar mentions the Rabbit hardware product
• Ammaar mentions collaborating with his friend Pietro