
A regular podcast covering design and AI from the founders of Near Future, a boutique AI consultancy focused on teams that care about craft. We cover both what we're seeing on the ground and industry trends, ways of working and occasional guests from the design world.
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 13 | Founded | 2 months ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | TechnologyArtsDesign | |||

Tom and Jonny sit down with Randy Hunt, Head of Design at Notion and chair of MFA Design at SVA. They dig into why speed and quality were never a trade-off, unpack the weekend build that turned into a two-week code review, and go behind the scenes of... more
Tom and Jonny sit down with James Storer, who leads design in Monzo's AI and personalisation collective and is the biggest token burner in the whole company. They dig into the fake Monzo his team built to prototype with, why he stepped off the leader... more
Tom and Jonny are back for a duo episode after a month of guest interviews — Jonny has just about got the internet back after a house move and a camping trip.
They reflect on what the recent guest run has taught them, dig into Backyard Designers Clu... more
This week Jonny moves house, so Tom hosts solo. He’s joined by Ini Abiodun, lead product designer at AirOps, to discuss designing inside a fast-moving AI startup and the systems she’s built to move faster. Ini explains how her 90-day onboarding plan ... more
Hollie Lubbock (Design Director) and Josh Payton (VP of Design) at Wise join Jonny and Tom on the Near Future Podcast to unpack how their design org has rewired itself around AI — from prototyping kits that let anyone "hold" an idea, to the hidden op... more
Tom and Jonny are joined by Domingo Widen, Staff Product Designer on the Front-End Infrastructure team at Fin (formerly Intercom)
Domingo shares how designers at Fin have moved from prototyping in sandboxes to shipping directly to production, and un... more
Tom and Jonny sit down with Avi Ashkenazi, Senior Product Design Director at Deel, for the podcast's first-ever guest episode. Avi shares the story behind Vidit, an internal screen-recording tool he built (and vibe-codes on weekends) that now has 600... more
Tom and Jonny share updates from Tom’s Mostly Working meetup in London with Kate Pincot (Multiverse), focused on scaling design impact through tooling and agents, and preview upcoming podcast guests in July.
They reflect on how the meetup format has... more










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This show centers on design and AI tooling, with a strong emphasis on how practitioners balance human craft with machine-assisted workflows. Recent episodes explore tensions between source-of-truth versus canvas-first approaches, the evolving role of design tools (including major players like Figma) in shaping workflows, and practical experiments in applying AI to prototypes, workshops, and live demos. The conversations also tackle geopolitical and strategic questions around sovereignty for AI tools, the benefits and risks of open versus closed ecosystems, and real-world case studies from design teams experimenting with internal tooling, data workflows, and on-stage tooling demonstrations. Notable throughlines include a bias toward hands-on... more
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Recent guests on Near Future Podcast include:
1. Ini Abiodun
2. Hollie Lubbock
3. Josh Payton
4. Domingo Widen
5. Avi Ashkenazi
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