Interviews – DesignWhine

The Bicycle and the Algorithm: Amber Case on Why AI Has It Backwards

DesignWhine Editorial Team — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:24:50 +0000

There is a word Amber Case refuses to use. It appears constantly in the vocabulary of technology design right now, on conference slides and in product briefs and in the manifestos of well-meaning startups. The word is “invisible.” As in: the best technology is the technology you cannot see. Case, who has spent the better […]

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Inside Moonchild: How Steven Schkolne Thinks AI Will Rewrite the Design Process

DesignWhine Editorial Team — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:04:06 +0000

Editorial Disclosure: This issue is powered by Moonchild AI. While Moonchild supports the publication of this issue, all articles reflect the independent editorial perspective of DesignWhine. In an exclusive conversation with DesignWhine, Moonchild AI founder Steven Schkolne discusses agentic design, executable design systems, and why the next generation of designers won’t spend their days pushing […]

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How Ansh Mehra Is Boldly Rewriting the Designer’s Playbook in the Age of AI

DesignWhine Editorial Team — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:05:53 +0000

Ansh Mehra doesn’t fit the typical profile of a design influencer. He started as a computer science engineer, took an internship at Swiggy, moved into product design at Y Combinator-backed Zuddl, and then pivoted to teaching. Today, he runs The Cutting Edge School, where he trains enterprise teams at Microsoft, Intel, Lenskart, and Dubai Future […]

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She Walked Out on Microsoft’s Climate Lie. Exclusive Interview with Holly Alpine, Co-Founder of Enabled Emissions

DesignWhine Editorial Team — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 19:29:54 +0000

The climate paradox of Silicon Valley crystallized in August 2025 when Business Insider reported on a growing exodus from Microsoft. Employees were resigning not over compensation packages or career trajectories, but over a fundamental moral contradiction: the company’s celebrated climate commitments existed alongside lucrative contracts that supercharged fossil fuel extraction. Among those who left were […]

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SusMafia: The Mafia That’s Saving the World – Inside India’s Most Influential Climate Community

DesignWhine Editorial Team — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 13:43:29 +0000

In the basement of a Bangalore co-working space in 2017, something unusual was taking shape. A handful of climate tech founders, exhausted from pitching to investors who didn’t understand their market or building products in regulatory vacuums, began meeting informally. They weren’t there to network or close deals. They came to confess their struggles, share […]

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AI prompt patent protection: Patent expert Bastian Best on the future of innovation

DesignWhine Editorial Team — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 16:39:08 +0000

As the debate around AI prompt patent protection continues to evolve, few voices carry as much authority as Bastian Best, a European patent attorney who has emerged as one of the field’s leading experts. Recognized by the European Patent Office as an “AI Patent Expert” and named among their “50 Leading Tech Voices,” Best runs […]

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