Hi, I’mPeter Hershey

AI Product Designer & Creator

Washington Post homepage redesign
PREVIOUSLY

Design Lead @ The Washington Post

Redesigned the Washington Post homepage, their first in a decade, and helped bring the product org into maturity as a digital-first operation.

Gemini Visual Overlays — what it feels like when a model can look at what you're looking at.
CURRENTLY

Senior AI Product Designer @ Google DeepMind

Shaping the future of human-AI interaction across voice, vision, and real-time awareness in Gemini Live.

AI-NATIVE · 04

🧭 Designing at the frontier.

I design for where AI capabilities are heading, not just where they are today. That means staying close to the models, prototyping in code, and treating AI as a creative partner.

AI IN PRACTICE · 05

My AI Toolkit

Claude Code — pixel-block logo
AT HOME

Claude Code, Wispr Flow

Rethinking my personal workflow for the AI age. Coding with Claude, dictating with Wispr, rebuilding how I work from the ground up.

Antigravity — Google DeepMind's agentic IDE
AT WORK

Figma, Antigravity, AI Studio

End-to-end design with Figma and agentic development. From concept to high-fidelity prototype, fast.

IN THE LAB

TouchDesigner, ComfyUI

Using TouchDesigner and real-time diffusion pipelines to create live, interactive generative art experiences. The wildcard in the stack.

EMPATHY · 07

🌍 Design is empathy. Travel is practice.

Nearly fifty countries, some as a tourist, some as a digital nomad. Understanding how other people live is the most valuable thing I bring to my design practice, and something I’ve written about for The Washington Post.

The Washington Post · TravelMy Digital Nomad Visa Tips
Three friends in front of Pico Cão Grande, São Tomé
Pico Cão Grande, São Tomé
CASE STUDIES · 09

Selected work.

2025 · Google DeepMind

Teaching Gemini to See

Evolving Gemini Live into a voice-first, multimodal experience.

2025 · Google DeepMind

Everyone's a Director

Designing the interface for Veo, Google's most advanced video generation model.

Let’s keep in touch.