OM DENNE EPISODE
Geoffrey Litt is a design engineer at Notion. Previously, he was a senior researcher at the independent research lab Ink & Switch, and he got his PhD in HCI at MIT. Geoffrey’s work focuses on malleable software and designing environments for thinking.
Outline:
0:00 - Introduction
0:47 - Design Is More Than Better Animation
3:32 - Malleable Software and Coding Agents
9:06 - Human-Software Interaction is a Full-Stack Problem
12:43 - Getting Users On Board and Deeper
15:53 - The Trap of Just Building More
20:27 - Primitive Design Is a Taste Problem
22:20 - Understanding Is the New Bottleneck
27:22 - How To Develop Taste?
34:49 - Productivity vs. Speed
38:10 - Will Better AI Hurt Human-Human Collaboration?
44:34 - Advice for Designing Better Products
References:
Geoffrey’s Homepage: https://www.geoffreylitt.com
Malleable Software: https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/malleable-software/
Understanding is the new bottleneck: https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2026/07/02/understanding-is-the-new-bottleneck
Notion Workers: https://developers.notion.com/workers/get-started/overview
Podcast Links:
Podcast website: https://augmented-mind.github.io/
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/augmented-mind-podcast/id1868102170
RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/10dbf5b7c/podcast/rss
About the Hosts:
The AM Podcast is hosted by Yijia Shao, Shannon Shen, and Michael Ryan, CS PhD students at Stanford University and MIT.
