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Near Future Podcast

Near Future
Artificial Intelligence
Figma
AI In Design
Artificial Intelligence In Design
Europe Sovereignty In AI
Airops
Palmwine Wireless
Wise
Prototyping
Design Culture
Anthropic Claude
Fable 5
Midjourney
Deel
Fin
Surge Intelligence
Design Systems
Cursor
Ideogram
Vidit

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.

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Latest Episodes

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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Recent Guests

Ini Abiodun
Lead product designer at AirOps
AirOps
Episode: Ep #10: Ini Abiodun (AirOps): Designing at AI Startup Speed, Personal Workflows, and Palmwine Wireless
Hollie Lubbock
Design Director, WISE
WISE
Episode: Ep #9: Hollie Lubbock & Josh Payton (Wise): How Wise Is Rebuilding the Designer's Workflow for the Age of AI
Josh Payton
VP of Design
WISE
Episode: Ep #9: Hollie Lubbock & Josh Payton (Wise): How Wise Is Rebuilding the Designer's Workflow for the Age of AI
Domingo Widen
Staff product designer at Fin (formerly Intercom)
Fin
Episode: Ep #8: Domingo Widen (Fin): Why Fin's designers now ship straight to production
Avi Ashkenazi
Senior Design Director at Deel
Deel
Episode: Ep #7: Going AI-first as a design org with Avi Ashkenazi, Senior Design Director at Deel

Hosts

Tom
Host with a background in design tooling and AI-related consultancy; appears as a primary host and co-host across episodes.
Jonny
Co-host with a focus on design tooling, AI-enabled workflows, and industry perspectives; often drives conversations with practical demos and event notes.

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Ep #10: Ini Abiodun (AirOps): Designing at AI Startup Speed, Personal Workflows, and Palmwine Wireless
Q: How much of your time is spent on traditional product design versus scaling design and cross-functional collaboration?
A significant portion now goes toward scaling design and aligning with cross-functional teams, though traditional design work remains important; the balance shifts toward enabling engineers and other stakeholders to ship without constant UI involvement.
Ep #9: Hollie Lubbock & Josh Payton (Wise): How Wise Is Rebuilding the Designer's Workflow for the Age of AI
Q: How do you think disciplines within design will evolve or stay distinct as AI becomes more capable?
Discipline boundaries will remain but will be reinforced by specialization and the need for deep expertise; AI raises the floor for everyone, but the ceiling will still be driven by human judgment and domain-specific mastery.

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What is Near Future Podcast about and what kind of topics does it cover?

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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4. Domingo Widen
5. Avi Ashkenazi

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