{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Near Future Podcast","title":"Ep #13: Randy Hunt (Notion & SVA): Speed as a Quality Strategy, Killing the Handoff, and Teaching Design in the AI Era","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3138,"description":"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 how a graduate design programme is rewriting itself around AI.\nChapters\n0:04 — Two institutions, one calendar: how Randy keeps both plates spinning\n3:00 — Agents that absorb the busy work so he can stay close to the craft\n5:29 — Dogfooding vs. knowing the competition: you have to do the work twice\n8:22 — One place for everything, or a walled garden? Jonny re-buys Notion\n11:10 — Battle-tested vs. multi-model: why living in one suite stops working\n13:22 — Good, fast, cheap: Randy refuses to pick two\n15:17 — Quality isn't the screen being right, it's how many people hit it wrong\n19:05 — The handoff is a telephone game: why passing the baton kills the work\n22:52 — Designers were shipping production code before the coding agents arrived\n25:42 — He built it in a weekend. The PR took two weeks to review\n29:35 — Writing code got cheap. Writing good code didn't\n30:46 — Emergent chat vs. written-down skills: making the system legible to everyone\n33:07 — Working in the open so you can see how your colleagues actually prompt\n35:42 — Build it yourself or wait for someone to sell it: micro tool making\n39:04 — The barbell curriculum: what endures vs. what has to stay malleable\n43:20 — Directing a photographer vs. directing a model: same skill, different studio\n44:57 — Where's the punk rock student who refuses to use AI?\n47:58 — He went home for the summer and built an ERP for his dad's warehouse\n49:33 — Quick fire: AGI takes over, so what do you actually do with the time?\n51:37 — Wrap up, and a promise to come back for the music conversation\nMentioned in the episode\nRandy\nRandy J. Hunt — https://www.randyjhunt.com\nRandy on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/randyjhunt/\nProduct Design for the Web (New Riders, 2013) —...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/8vUveugi5ZjKDI2pGhMY6ZwBcP7SSSqiqKb9hZCqvHM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lOGE1/OTk1MmI3NWJjZTAw/Y2EyMWJjODZkODFj/MjI4MC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}