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Chris

Chris

Design technologist exploring AI trust and no-UI interaction

San Francisco 1 interview Consent confirmed
Design technologyAI trustNYU ITPNo UIHuman-AI interaction
Interview

Full HiRey interview, hosted as a 1080p public-page master with transcript and agent-readable data.

Who Chris has met

Real people, really met — most on the record. More appear here as they happen.

Readable story

Who Chris is

A design technologist who works across design, prototyping, code, and AI-enabled workflows.

What he is exploring

The trust gap between AI tools and users, especially how to evaluate, calibrate, and increase trust in important workflows.

Why it matters

As AI tools move into higher-stakes contexts, users need more than output quality: they need systems that help them understand when to trust the tool.

Design point of view

Chris also talks about no-UI interaction and the importance of trying AI tools directly rather than only studying them abstractly.

Key facts
  • Chris says he is a design technologist.
  • He describes design technology as a mixed role combining design and prototyping with code, helped by AI.
  • He references NYU ITP as Interactive Telecommunications Program in New York.
  • He says current students should try many AI tools and, when possible, train or experiment with models.
  • He says his current interest is the trust gap between AI tools and users.
Good matches

AI product designers

Chris is thinking about trust, evaluation, and interaction patterns rather than only raw model output.

Design technologists

His work bridges design, code, prototyping, and AI tool use.

Human-AI interaction researchers

The conversation centers on how users decide whether AI is trustworthy enough for real work.

Who should meet Chris

  • AI product teams working on trust, explainability, or high-stakes UX.
  • Design technologists and creative coders using AI in prototyping.
  • Students or program leads thinking about AI-related career paths from ITP-like backgrounds.
How to introduce Chris

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AI trust design

“Chris is a design technologist exploring how users calibrate trust in AI tools and where current AI interfaces still fail.”

No-UI product thinking

“He has a practical design-technologist view on AI interactions that may not look like traditional UI.”

The record — what's verified vs self-reported

Public facts and interview claims are kept separate, so an agent can reason about confidence before making an introduction.

Verified — public facts

The public page is backed by Walter Wu's recorded HiRey interview and the uploaded source video. HiRey video asset ↗

From the interview — self-reported

  • Chris says his background connects to NYU ITP.
  • He says he is most interested in AI trust and user trust calibration.
  • He says he works as a design technologist across design and code.

Still to verify with Chris: full name, current organization, portfolio links, exact ITP affiliation, and what public project examples he wants attached.

Interview chapters
00:00
ITP and AI-career advice

Chris talks about how students from ITP-like programs can approach AI-related work.

01:10
Design technologist role

He explains the mixed role of design, prototyping, and code.

02:15
Trust between AI and users

He discusses calibrating trust as the core AI product problem he wants to explore.

Topics & who Chris wants to meet
Design technologyAI trustNYU ITPNo UIHuman-AI interaction

Looking to meet

  • AI product teams working on trust, explainability, or high-stakes UX.
  • Design technologists and creative coders using AI in prototyping.
  • Students or program leads thinking about AI-related career paths from ITP-like backgrounds.
Full transcript
Read the full interview transcript (transcribed words, agent-readable)

## DJI_20260615154909_0001_D So I found it very interesting that you share about your experience about how you transform from your major, that is ITP, ITP to the current group you have, so what's your opinion about how to, like, for this kind of major students, how do you locate your first job? You're too far from the mic. You're too far from the mic. So I just want to ask, like, how for your major of students, the students of your major, so how do you, what's your suggestion towards these kind of students, so to locate your first AI related job? Yeah, I think, I think for my major ITP stands for Interactive Telecommunication Program in New York, in NYU. I think they have been exposed to a lot of AI tools, and I know the current class, they have a lot of AI related class, so I think it's very important to try as many AI tools as possible in their work, and also try to, like, train an AI model if that's possible. And also, specifically looking for the experience gap, when you interact with, like, any AI tools, what is something that human or users are currently not capable, like, not available to do, will be crucial for them. And maybe think, like, innovatively on, like, how they fix that gap. Yeah. Okay. I forgot about your name. So what's your name? My name is Chris. Chris. Nice to meet you, Chris. Yeah. And you are doing? I am a design technologist. What is that? Design technologist is a mixed role that, basically, you do design and prototyping with code at the same time, with the help of AI. UI. So UI or no UI? No UI, in my opinion. Yeah. Cool. That's it. That's it. ## DJI_20260615155138_0002_D Okay, so I think my work currently, I'm most interested in like the trust between AI and user, and I realize there is always, there's a trust gap in current AI tools. We are, my work is basically around how we calculate or calibrate those trust, how we evaluate those trust between AI and user, and how we apply and potentially increase the trust in the future so that in more like important or like security needed, industry, trust is important. So I think that's something I'm currently very interested in exploring. I like the muscle. Oh, thank you. How many times do you do workout? Four times a week. Yeah, I'm trying to fix my schedule. But yeah, it's been nice.