Meet the authors of Sentient Design at Designing with AI 2026

Exciting news for designers who want to be at the forefront of the future of design! Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred, authors of the upcoming Sentient Design: Crafting Intelligent Interfaces with AI, will be speaking at Designing with AI 2026, live online this June 9-10.

What is “sentient design”?

Sentient Design is the practice of crafting intelligent interfaces: dashboards that design themselves, apps that manifest on demand, agents that just get it done, and much more.

Why does sentient design matter?

Sentient design is a radically adaptive practice that keeps up with the times by using artificial intelligence (AI) as a design material. User experience designers delivering products that utilize this innovative technology benefit from the sentient design framework.

Who are Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred?

Josh Clark is principal of Big Medium, a digital agency that helps complex organizations design for what’s next. Josh has over 30 years of experience in emerging technology, user experience, and design innovation. His projects include future-friendly interfaces for AI, connected devices, and websites for many of the world’s biggest companies.

Josh is co-author with Veronika Kindred of the book Sentient Design: Crafting Intelligent Interfaces with AI (Rosenfeld Media, 2026). Josh coined the phrase Sentient Design in 2024 to describe the practice of crafting digital experiences with awareness and agency that adapt to your users in the moment.

Veronika Kindred is a designer and researcher at digital agency Big Medium, where she defines and solves design problems alongside some of the world’s biggest companies. She travels internationally to lead Sentient Design workshops and speak to teams at startups and Fortune 100 companies alike.

Veronika is co-author with Josh Clark of the book Sentient Design: Crafting Intelligent Interfaces with AI (Rosenfeld Media, 2026). Sentient Design describes the practice of creating digital experiences that crackle with awareness and agency, adapting to your users in the moment. These are intelligent interfaces: dashboards that design themselves, apps that manifest on demand, agents that just get it done, and much more.

What will Josh Clark and Veronika Kindred discuss at Designing with AI 2026?

[Talk] Sentient Design: Crafting Intelligent Interfaces with AI

Create experiences that have the awareness and agency to adapt to users in the moment. Sentient Design is the practice of crafting intelligent interfaces: dashboards that design themselves, apps that manifest on demand, agents that just get it done, and much more.

Learn how AI can elevate design (and designers!) instead of replacing them by grinding out efficiencies. Instead of treating AI as a tool, Sentient Design invites you to use AI as a design material, woven into the interface itself. What entirely new kinds of experiences can we create? What dramatic new value can they deliver?

Intelligent interfaces are the new frontier of experience design. This session delivers a map of the territory, as well as the framework and perspective to deliver these experiences in your own practice. View talk info »

Where can I learn more about Sentient Design?

Josh and Veronika’s upcoming book, Sentient Design: Crafting Intelligent Interfaces with AI releases on Tuesday, June 9—the first day of the Designing with AI conference!

Sentient Design is for designers, product leaders, and design-minded developers who want to create entirely new categories of experience with AI. This book helps you decide what to make and why it matters, giving you the patterns and process to conjure the next generation of AI-powered products.

Pre-order the book now at 15% off to receive a complimentary ebook with your purchase—delivered straight to your downloads upon release!

Register now and join us at the third annual Designing with AI conference! Be in the room where the conversations about the future of design are happening.