Near Future Podcast

About Near Future Podcast

A weekly podcast covering design and AI by Tom Harman and Jonny Burch. We cover both what we're seeing on the ground and industry trends, ways of working and occasional guests from the design world.

Publisher

Mostly Working

Category

arts · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

12 Jun 2026

Latest episode

16 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

12 of 21 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   16 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Ep #21: Cassie Groos (Unily): Design Systems for Agents, Infinite Brands, and Why the Canvas Stays

   Host Tom and guest Cassie Groos, Design Systems Lead at Unily, explore AI's impact on design systems, infinite branding, and the enduring role of the visual canvas.

2. 

   8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Ep #20: Christine Røde (The Browser Company): Dia's Morning Brief, Real Art, and Shipping Less

   Host Tom and Jonny interview Christine Røde, designer at The Browser Company, about Dia's Morning Brief, AI trust, and shipping less to improve quality.

3. 

   2 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Ep #19: Big News. Near Future Is Now Mostly Working. Why We're Changing, a Summit at Monzo, and Building a Brand with Claude

   Tom Harman and Jonny Burch discuss the transition of their podcast to "Mostly Working" and explore building brands with AI tools like Claude Code.

Inside a recent episode

Ep #21: Cassie Groos (Unily): Design Systems for Agents, Infinite Brands, and Why the Canvas Stays

Published 16 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] One of my favorite parts is developing the token architecture so that kind of works with us a lot of problem solving. And I really, I like really complex token architecture, solving really like weird and convoluted problems. So like the multi-brand stuff is like right up my alley. So yeah, for Unilea, it is multi-brand, but not just we're a company and we have like five different brands and it needs to work across those, but like infinite multi-brand where the clients can, bring their own brand and input that like in runtime via like a self-serve kind of journey, which in itself is quite complicated. […]

Who has been a guest on Near Future Podcast

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• Cassie Groos
• Christine Røde
• Gabriella Hachem
• Frank Bach
• James Storer

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Spotify

5.0 / 5

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