Luke Talbot | AI Creative
SPECIAL PROJECTS | AI Creative Designer
2025 - present
Much of our work is confidential, but we often partner with Google for AI projects and design initiatives.
Deliver research in culture, technology, and the project’s needed areas of interest in visually effective and collaborative formats.
Turn insights into clear narratives and stories.
Use frontier AI tools to aid my work and spark new ideas.
Confidently present new ideas and design decisions to clients on a weekly basis.
Creatively communicate the human value and impact of our ideas.
Create internal AI experiments to inspire future work for Special Projects.
Work on simultaneous ongoing projects, managing my time and responsibilities across multiple projects at different stages.
Work in a small team to deliver fast, magical, innovative work.
Skills:
Expertise with frontier AI tools • Taste in pitch deck design • Confidence presenting and articulating design decisions • Communicating narrative and stories • UX/UI Design • AI experimentation and agent prototyping
Tools:
Figma • Notion • Veo3 • Adobe Suite • Imagen • Anti-Gravity • Claude Code • GPT
Freelance AI Projects | AI Creative
2024 - present
A series of AI Projects and Experiments focusing on Culture, Identity and Fun.
Make the Internet Cool Again ↗
Radically redesigned the Google Search experience, in response to previous research on how AI search is dismantling the current business model for web pages, creating a new system focused on creation, encouraging users to create easy-to-make websites via new vibecoding tools.
AI x Your Friends: Collaborative Identity Curation ↗
Designed an app where friends help curate your digital identity, with AI helping refine and surface the most authentic version of you.
Designing AI UX that doesn’t dismantle the Independece of the Web ↗
Explored how AI Search undermines the current business model of the web by diverting traffic from independent websites.
Policylab | AI Designer
2023 - 2024
Explored how AI can shape future public services. Designed and prototyped experimental tools within the UK GOVS Policy Innovation Lab.
Demonstrated how AI could support research, ideation and policy development processes.
Experimented with AI in policy design.
showcased creative use-cases of AI.
Explored AI across areas such as satellite infrastructure and education technology.
Delivered workshops across government introducing teams to new AI capabilities.
Demonstrated how AI could support research, ideation and policy development processes.
Prototyped creative applications of frontier AI tools for policy teams.
ASUS | Collaborative Project
2022
Designed an AI voice tool for trans and transitioning people to explore their voice in a safe digital space.
Researched history of AI in Culture then Gender Representation in AI Assistants being predominantly female e.g. Siri, Alexa, Cortana.
Held user interviews with transitioning users to find key and valued features.
Mocked and wireframed design with the ASUS' design teams support.
Kano Computing + STEM Player | Collaborative Project
2021
Designed, Coded and Fabricated a faceless wallclock that communicates approximate time through colour, encouraging a healthier relationship with productivity in the work-from-home era.
Coded interactive display and multi sensor functions pre-chatgpt
Currently developing the product for market with a design founder
My Powerbank | Self Initiated Project
2021 - 2023
Designed and engineered a freely rechargeable dynamo based power bank specifically for those experiencing homeless in London to charge their mobile devices.
Worked with charities and rough sleepers to understand barriers to device charging for people experiencing homelessness.
Designed, prototyped, and built a working dynamo-powered charging device.
Recognised with multiple design awards for social innovation.
Eventually approached by Santander for real-world implementation following public interest.