Dan Brown on AI, Disinformation, and Designing Resilient Information Spaces

In this conversation, Dan Brown discusses his extensive design career, from early web work to co-founding 8 Shapes and his new firm, Curious Squid. He highlights his new podcast, which explores the critical need for designers to create information spaces more resilient to disinformation, especially in the era of AI. Dan emphasizes that Information Architecture (IA) is experiencing a renewed interest because many products have outgrown their structures, and AI demands better IA for both training data and presenting its probabilistic outputs. Finally, he introduces the concept of a designer’s "posture," which describes the essential behaviors and values they bring to their work that go beyond simple career goals.