SCOUT· 46%1h 12m·2026-08-16·TechnologyOpenAI’s Head of Design: This is the best time in history to be a designer | Ian Silber
Ian Silber is the head of product design at OpenAI, where he has led the design of ChatGPT, Codex, and all of OpenAI’s product experience for the past three years. Before OpenAI, he was at Artifact, the AI-powered news app built by the founders of Instagram. Prior to that, he spent eight years at Instagram, where he…
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