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Sentient Design

Crafting Intelligent Interfaces with AI

By: Josh Clark, Veronika Kindred (As told to), John Maeda (Foreword by)

Paperback | 9 June 2026

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Create experiences that crackle with awareness and agency, adapting to your 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. This groundbreaking book gives designers and product leaders the practical framework and imaginative perspective to deliver extraordinary new products using AI as a design material.

 

Who Should Read This Book

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.

 

Takeaways

       
  • Design interfaces that adapt their content, style, structure, and behavior on the fly in response to user context and intent. 
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  • Adopt AI as a design material: learn what it's good at, where it stumbles, and how to work with its grain.
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  • Evolve from crafting static interfaces to directing systems that make design decisions in real time.
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  • Explore the Sentient Triangle framework to discover over a dozen experience patterns that go far beyond text-based agents and chatbots.
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  • Build systems that amplify human judgment and agency instead of replacing them.
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  • Practice defensive design to manage risk, build trust, and recover gracefully when AI stumbles. 
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  • Follow an innovative sprint process that combines "practical magic" with hands-on methods for designing intelligent interfaces.
Industry Reviews

"An essential guide for building responsible and revolutionary AI-mediated user experiences."
-Kirkus Reviews


"You have to read it for yourself, and you should!"
—Jakob Nielsen, Founder, UX Tigers


"Sentient Design is excellent, essential training in the advanced use of generative AI and agents."
—Don Norman, author of The Design of Everyday Things and Design for a Better World


"I f*cking love this book. Josh and Veronika have done something so rare. They've named a thing that was already happening, but we didn't have language for. Sentient Design is a smart, generous exploration of how we'll engage with AI as humans and as designers. Essential reading for anyone building the next generation of digital experiences." 
—Katja Forbes, CX futurist and author, Machine Customers: The Evolution Has Begun


“AI is more than chat. Amen. Sentient Design is an expansive guide to the emerging interactions that define the next era of design. A must-read.”
—Adam McClean, chief product officer, People Inc.


Sentient Design is the ultimate guidebook to a world where the best interface is a thinking one.”
—Golden Krishna, author of The Best Interface Is No Interface: The Simple Path to Brilliant Technology


“Josh and Veronika have given us the pattern library we need to ensure that designing with AI remains distinctly human.”
—Jeff Veen, design partner at True Ventures and founder of Typekit


Sentient Design offers clear vocabulary and concrete examples to help designers better imagine what's possible with machine intelligence as design material.”
—Randy Hunt, head of design, Notion


“Sentient Design is a rare kind of tech book that is immediately useful and approachable but built for longevity.”
—Pamela Pavliscak, author of Emotionally Intelligent Design: Rethinking How We Create Products and All the Feels: How to Stay Human in the Digital World


“This in-depth book pairs Josh's veteran perspective with Veronika's fresh voice. Together, they cut through the AI hype, offering specific patterns and down-to-earth advice for crafting intelligent, sentient-feeling experiences.”
—Carla Diana, associate professor and director of product design, Lawrence Technological University


“Packed with inspiration from the frontier, Sentient Design is full of actionable strategies for interaction designers.”
—Matt Webb, co-founder, Inanimate


Sentient Design is the disambiguation artifact our industry needs right now.”
—Ioana Telanu, founder of AI-R Design Studio and creator of UX Goodies


“This historic era in technology demands open minds from designers, and Sentient Design gives you the skills to rise to the occasion.”
—Aarron Walter, Design Better co-founder


“You could hardly ask for a better set of tools to help makers of software evaluate, rethink, and reimagine the experiences for which they’re designing.”
—Chris Noessel, author of Designing Assistant Technology:

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