Christina Jones
Head of Design, GenAI at Canva
Howdy 👋 I'm CJ, a global design leader at Canva. As the Head of Design for GenAI, I drive innovation and design at a global scale. I focus on leveraging machine learning to enhance user experiences for hundreds of millions of users worldwide.
With a background in advertising, my strengths are creating long-term strategies and rallying teams through iterative discovery. As a design manager and coach, I am dedicated to nurturing talent, fostering creativity, and empowering teams through a new tech landscape.
Career
- 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
Key moments
Jump straight to the part of How to Stay Creative in the Age of Average AI | Christina Jones, Canva you want.
- 3:15 CJ’s role as Head of Design for GenAI at Canva
- 5:10 Why CJ stopped using AI to edit her writing
- 8:29 AI Hack of the Week: The “Steelman” method
- 12:00 Georgie’s first-ever AI rant: The guinea pig app that never launched
- 14:20 Big picture: how to actually think about AI in your life
- 17:00 How CJ uses AI to audit her calendar
- 19:14 Beyond productivity: where AI really adds value
- 23:24 Why creativity matters in a cost-of-living crisis
- 27:23 Trends in AI art + training your own diffusion models
- 32:38 Is taste the real differentiator in AI?
Connections
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