{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsurvive-and-thrive.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fevery-design-idea-is-stolen-remixed-QAvtiIsc","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Every Design Idea Is Stolen (Remixed)","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/e5e37d85-25a3-4f11-a7e5-abcc974a9c31/1252328c-1340-44f7-b0c3-2d0bf94149ca/every_design_idea_is_stolen_remixed_spotify.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/32657abe-ef05-414c-aefa-74defe771811\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"Every Design Idea Is Stolen (Remixed)\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"Everyone wants to blame AI for design looking the same right now. Wrong target. AI is just doing what a lot of designers already do—looking at everything that exists and handing back the average of it.\n\nIn this episode, Symon flies solo on where design ideas actually come from, and why the good ones never come from looking at other design. The whole argument runs on one idea, borrowed from Kirby Ferguson: everything is a remix. The machine remixes too—it just pulls from the middle, the most common, most-scraped stuff, which is why it trends generic. Your only real edge is borrowing from further away than the model can reach.\n\nThree case studies in doing exactly that: a doctor, an out-of-work engineer, and a designer who followed his junk drawer. A look at where creative leaps actually come from, for anyone tired of racing the machine to the average."}