Designing for Joy: Finding Meaning in Industrial Design with Daniela Garcia | S3E04

Designing in the Wild · 14 Oct 2026 · 55m · Episode 4

AI in practice: 3 real uses of AI described

What this episode covers

Industrial designer Daniela Garcia, who revitalized the Boston IDSA chapter and works with companies like G appliances and Medea, explains her design philosophy centered on 'joy' and reducing user stress. She details her workflow, which combines low-fidelity cardboard prototyping to avoid 'CAD goggles' with AI tools like Vizcom and Figma for rapid visualization and stakeholder buy-in. Garcia also discusses her wellness initiative, Shanti, and how observing nature and birdwatching informs her CMF strategies and biomimicry approaches.

AI in practice

Where this conversation describes AI being used to build or deliver a product. Part of the AI in practice tracker.

DesignBiscom

The designer used Biscom to generate high-fidelity visualizations from quick sketches to create 'eye candy' for stakeholder presentations, which helped secure project approval and accelerate the decision-making process.

“I would normally make quick sketches to then put normally into BISCO and probably visualize that really fast in terms of like creating that eye candy for a good presentation where we want to get this project approval and moving forward.”

Daniela Garcia · Hear it at 29:10

DesignClaude

The designer lists Claude as one of the AI tools used for general support alongside other software in her daily workflow, though no specific task is detailed beyond its inclusion in the toolset.

“and then after that, probably anything with SolidWorkss and Keyshot, Biscom as AI tools, probably Claude and ChatGPT for like any other uh AI support.”

Daniela Garcia · Hear it at 31:52

DesignChatGPT

The designer lists ChatGPT as one of the AI tools used for general support alongside other software in her daily workflow, though no specific task is detailed beyond its inclusion in the toolset.

“and then after that, probably anything with SolidWorkss and Keyshot, Biscom as AI tools, probably Claude and ChatGPT for like any other uh AI support.”

Daniela Garcia · Hear it at 31:52

Mentioned

Companies
SCAD, G appliances, Medea
Products
Shanti
Tools
Vizcom, Figma, SolidWorks, Keyshot
Also
IDSA

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