Podcast: Scott Jenson on Evolving Desktop OS, Local-First, & Agentic UX

Olimpiu Pop: Hello, everybody. I'm Olimpiu Pop, an InfoQ editor. And today I have in front of me Scott Jenson. For those of you, if the name doesn't mean anything, he's probably one of the UX designers that has a lot of impact on your life or the things that you're doing if you're using a MacBook or if you're using an Android phone because you worked on a lot of this stuff. Thank you, Scott, for talking to us. Mobile vs. Desktop: Productivity vs. Consumption [00:45] Scott Jenson: Great. I'm happy to be here. Yes, I basically started off at Apple. I worked on the Macintosh System 7. I then worked over and moved over to the Newton, which was a big handheld at the time, got a lot of hype, then moved over to do a lot of desktop work. I ended up working at Google and worked on the first version of Google Mobile Maps. Went over and worked on the Chrome team, had a project called the Physical Web, and then did quite a bit of consulting. I was at Frog Design for a number of years as creative director and worked on some big projects…