Sentient Design

Name: Sentient Design
Brand: Rosenfeld Media
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Crafting Intelligent Interfaces with AI

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

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