Cassie Spiral is a designer working at the convergence of artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction through compositional mediums. In 2021 she founded Moon, a design studio focused on AI-native applications for Apple platforms, where she develops tools and techniques that reimagine how users direct and collaborate with intelligent systems.
Cassie's approach to AI interface design proceeds from her early recognition of the epochal potential of Large Language Models: when the Transformer paper was published in 2017 in the midst of her MFA studies in Digital Language Arts at Brown University, she became convinced that AI would fundamentally reshape human-computer interaction, and committed to designing for this future. This insight has informed her work time and again over the past nine years, leading directly (if elliptically) to her current position at the forefront of compositional AI interaction design.
Above all, her work is about crafting AI interaction paradigms which are open and fluid, found new psychic echelons, and unearth fundamental questions about what it means for humans and AI systems to coalesce usefully. Her work represents a singular perspective on human interface design for AI, one which privileges agency, expression, and the compositional possibilities that emerge when intelligence is embraced as a bona fide medium, rather than simply another tool.