Dario Butnariu

Based in Vienna,
working remotely

AI designer
Agents, voice, interfaces

I design how AI products
talk, wait and say no.

The Waves Vienna line-up page, redesigned

Waves Vienna

Line-up redesign

Website, 2026

The festival's 2026 line-up on a ruled grid: 112 acts from 30 countries, sorted by day and showcase.

Light split by a prism

Lumen

Generative identity

Identity, 2026

An identity built from one prism shape that renders new light patterns for every use.

A silhouette in front of a ring light

Halo

Voice assistant

Voice, 2025

A voice assistant designed around timing: when to pause, when to interrupt and when to say it isn't sure.

Wooden geometric forms

Form Study

01–40

Generated objects, 2025

Forty objects generated by a model and edited by hand, testing where the model's taste ends and mine begins.

A geometric metal sphere

Orbit

Agent onboarding

Agents, 2024

The first minutes with an AI agent, in which it learns what it may do alone and what it must ask first.

An open atlas

Prompt Atlas

Design tool

Tool, 2024

A shared library of tested prompts for a design team, with notes on what each one does well and where it fails.

Typewriter keys

The Second Prompt

Research

Research, 2024

What people type after a disappointing first answer, and what that says about the interface.

A wall of wooden type letters

Signal

Variable typeface

Type, 2023

A variable typeface whose weight follows how confident the generated text is.

A gridded building facade

Northlight

Design system

System, 2023

A design system for AI features, with components for loading, citing sources, refusing and handing over to a person.