About Maggie Appleton
Maggie is a designer, anthropologist, and mediocre developer.
She currently leads design at Elicit, an AI research lab exploring how language models can support scientific research and open-ended reasoning.
She’s enthusiastic about tools for thought, end-user programming, and digital gardening.
Squish meets structure:
Designing with language models
Language models feel like squishy, alien minds we've organically grown inside a GPU cluster. They are unlike any of our existing computational tools. They're predictably unpredictable and break many of our pre-conceived notions of how computers work. How are we supposed to design with these messy, unwieldy, Shoggoth-like creatures?
In her talk, Maggie will cover how to balance squish and structure, why compositionally matters, and explore the potential of treating models as small, single-purpose reasoning engines.
Maggie is speaking on day three, June 20th
Day three focuses on Design Ops and Design Systems.