In The Blink Of AI with Georgie Healy 
About Christina Jones
Christina Jones, known as CJ, is Head of Design for Generative AI at Canva, where her team designs the company's AI features, including Magic Studio and Canva AI. Her work centres on how machine learning fits into everyday design tools, and on coaching and growing design teams as AI changes the way they work.
Before Canva she was a product design lead at Grab, first on mobility and then on deliveries checkout, and earlier led product design at Rover. She has also worked on design for Semantic Scholar at the Allen Institute for AI, and began her career in advertising.
On In The Blink Of AI with Georgie Healy, she discussed how to keep work original when AI makes average output easy, and why taste matters more as generation gets cheaper.
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Key moments from How to Stay Creative in the Age of Average AI | Christina Jones, Canva.
- 3:15CJ’s role as Head of Design for GenAI at Canva
- 5:10Why CJ stopped using AI to edit her writing
- 8:29AI Hack of the Week: The “Steelman” method
- 12:00Georgie’s first-ever AI rant: The guinea pig app that never launched
- 14:20Big picture: how to actually think about AI in your life
- 17:00How CJ uses AI to audit her calendar
- 19:14Beyond productivity: where AI really adds value
- 23:24Why creativity matters in a cost-of-living crisis
- 27:23Trends in AI art + training your own diffusion models
- 32:38Is taste the real differentiator in AI?
The path so far.
- Now
Head of Design, GenAI · Canva
- 2020–2021 · Scale-up
Product design lead, Deliveries (checkout) · Grab
- 2018–2020 · Scale-up
Product design lead, Mobility · Grab
- 2015–2017 · Startup
Product design lead · Rover
- Earlier
Design, Semantic Scholar · Allen Institute for AI (AI2)
Sources: jonesish.com
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