Veronika Kindred

Designer and Researcher at Big Medium, Co-author of Sentient Design

Veronika Kindred is designer and researcher at Big Medium, where she defines and solves design problems alongside some of the world’s biggest companies. She travels internationally to lead Sentient Design workshops and speak to teams at startups and Fortune 100 companies alike.

Veronika is co-author with Josh Clark of the book Sentient Design: Crafting Intelligent Interfaces with AI (Rosenfeld Media, 2026). Sentient Design describes the practice of creating digital experiences that crackle with awareness and agency, adapting to your users in the moment. These are intelligent interfaces: dashboards that design themselves, apps that manifest on demand, agents that just get it done, and much more.

Veronika holds degrees from New York University (Politics and Data Science) and the Fashion Institute of Technology (Photography). Her photographs have appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine and UNWomen.org. Her research has ranged from AI’s effect on user experience to mobile technology’s impact on African political engagement to the nuances of congressional climate hearings.

Rosenverse talks by Veronika:

Veronika Kindred

" Intelligent interfaces enable us to create value with experiences we couldn’t previously imagine, elevating design instead of replacing it. "

Sentient Design: Crafting Intelligent Interfaces with AI

June 9, 2026

Veronika Kindred

" The prompt becomes part design spec, part requirement doc, and part programming language. "

Sentient Scenes and Radically Adaptive Experiences

June 11, 2025

Veronika Kindred

" Summarization isn’t just a feature—it’s becoming baked into experiences to help make sense of overwhelming information. "

Sentient Design: New Design Patterns for New Experiences (3rd of 3 seminars)

February 12, 2025

Veronika Kindred

" Assistance interfaces combine open-ended dialogue with the ability to do tasks on your behalf. "

Sentient Design: New Postures for AI-Mediated Experiences (2nd of 3 seminars)

January 29, 2025

Veronika Kindred

" AI is a design material, not just a tool or function you add to an experience. "

Sentient Design, AI, and the Radically Adaptive Experience (1st of 3 seminars)

January 15, 2025

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