Designing what AI feels like.

Felt Labs is where it all comes together — the open-source craft on Owl·Listener, the weekly thinking on MC Percolates, and the discipline of designing the relationship between humans and a new kind of intelligence.

Seventeen repos. Hundreds of skills. One discipline. Drop them into Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Cursor — anywhere a coding agent reads SKILL.md — and watch the agent reach for the right craft at the right moment.

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About MC Dean

MC Dean is an Australian designer and researcher based in London, working on human–AI interaction. She is a Staff Designer at Google, leading design strategy across AI-powered shopping experiences. She holds a PhD in Conversational AI (2011), with early empirical work on sycophancy and reward hacking in chatbot systems — findings that anticipated core questions in modern AI alignment.

Her earlier career spans Google Maps, six years at Atlassian, and Trustpilot, where she was VP of Design and Research. She writes Percolates, a weekly Substack on design and AI, speaks internationally on AI and design (including Chatham House), and is working on a book, Simmerdin.

Felt Labs works from one thesis: alignment is a design problem. How AI behaves, what it feels like to work with, and whether people can trust it are questions of design, not just engineering.

Contact

MC welcomes conversations about speaking, advisory work, research collaboration, and contributions to the open-source library.

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