Sam Stephenson - The journey of designing an AI product
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I use Granola every single day and it’s quickly become a beloved product in the tech community.
But it was a winding journey to get there…
So in this episode their co-founder and designer, Sam Stephenson, gives a behind-the-scenes of what it was like going 0 → 1 with Granola:
- How to navigate the idea maze for an AI product
- What Sam has learned about prompt engineering
- What it takes to succeed as an early stage startup designer
- How they arrived at Granola’s breakthrough interaction pattern
- A glimpse of Granola’s future product roadmap and teams strategy
- The piece of advice that reshaped how they think about onboarding
- a lot more
- ⭐ Granola is offering 3 months free for you and anyone on your team(!!) using this link
- They’re also hiring a founding designer
- Sam mentions Soleio who was their first investor
- Daniel Kahneman is the psychologist Sam mentions
- The Science of Managing our Digital Stuff
- David Lee is the YC Partner who gave them onboarding advice
If you liked this episode then you’ll enjoy the interview with Colin Dunn (co-founder and designer of Visual Electric)
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