Designing with AI 2026

June 9-10, 2026 • Live online conference

Designing with AI is tailored for conscientious product designers and UX professionals—whether writers, researchers, or designers—eager to harness the pote

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Designing with AI is tailored for conscientious product designers and UX professionals—whether writers, researchers, or designers—eager to harness the potential of AI in their professional endeavors. Join us to explore the responsible and innovative application of AI in UX.

Videos

June 9, 2026

Tuesday, June 9, 2026 • Designing with AI 2026

New work, new words: A glossary for AI

Paul Ford • Co-Founder, Aboard

Tuesday, June 9, 2026 • Designing with AI 2026

Coordinating chaos: Preventing workflow fragmentation when everyone accelerates with AI

Claire Dhoosche • Senior DesignOps Manager, Criteo

Tuesday, June 9, 2026 • Designing with AI 2026

Leading through ambiguity: Supporting a design team relearning their craft

Beth Chappell • Senior Manager, Product Design (AI & Creator Tools), Articulate

Tuesday, June 9, 2026 • Designing with AI 2026

Rehashing the Double Diamond: Collaborating across functions with AI-assisted prototyping

Allan Lowson • Head of Experience Design and Research, Arity

Tuesday, June 9, 2026 • Designing with AI 2026

Deciding when to automate: Integrating AI in high-stakes systems

Joy KendiMwiti • Senior Creative Lead, Dalberg Design

Tuesday, June 9, 2026 • Designing with AI 2026

Tools are moments. Capabilities compound.

Vanessa Varin • Sr. Design Program Manager, Amazon

Tuesday, June 9, 2026 • Designing with AI 2026

You’ve got Gold! A Rosenverse demo with Lou Rosenfeld

Louis Rosenfeld • Founder, Publisher, & CEO, Rosenfeld Media

Tuesday, June 9, 2026 • Designing with AI 2026

Sentient Design: Crafting Intelligent Interfaces with AI

Josh Clark • Principal of Big Medium, Co-author of Sentient Design
Veronika Kindred • Designer and Researcher at Big Medium, Co-author of Sentient Design

June 10, 2026

Wednesday, June 10, 2026 • Designing with AI 2026

Killing the handoff: Iterating design live in the browser on real production code

Paul Bakaus • CEO and Founder, Renaissance Geek, Inc.

Wednesday, June 10, 2026 • Designing with AI 2026

Building new AI skills: Creating outsized UX value with evals

Peter Van Dijck • UX and AI builder, CEO Sputnik Legal

Wednesday, June 10, 2026 • Designing with AI 2026

Conducting pre-research with AI agent personas: Pressure-testing concepts for expert workflows

Snehal Pendharkar • Vice President Experience Research, JPMorgan Chase & Co

Wednesday, June 10, 2026 • Designing with AI 2026

Moving AI offscreen: Exploring failures, constraints, and recovery in physical game design

Kritika Sony • UX Designer, PromptPath AI

Wednesday, June 10, 2026 • Designing with AI 2026

From tools to staff: What the next generation of agents means for the future of design

Christian Crumlish • Author of Product Management for UX People
Erika Flowers • Principal Service Designer, Author, Facilitator
Benjamin Jackson • Founder, Offtrail
Adekunle Oduye • Independent UX Engineer

Wednesday, June 10, 2026 • Designing with AI 2026

Designing with power in the age of AI

Anil Dash • Principal and Co-Founder, antitech

Wednesday, June 10, 2026 • Designing with AI 2026

Concept to code: Transforming ideas into functional products with Kiro

Rikki Teeters • Sr. UX Designer, Amazon

Wednesday, June 10, 2026 • Designing with AI 2026

From prototype to production: Vibe coding design for real engineering systems

David Eisner • VP Product Design & Research, founder of CraftAmplify
Changying (Z) Zheng • Head of Product Experience Operations, Cloudflare
Amelia Wattenberger • Developer, Designer, and Prototyper
Elyse Holladay • Staff Design Engineer, Color Health

Speakers

The new AI-augmented design process

How AI is reshaping the traditional design process—introducing new steps, skills, and strategies for both leaders and individual contributors.

Managing AI-augmented product design work

How to structure and support teams, update infrastructure, and pitch and justify your work in an evolving, AI-augmented design environment.

Quotes

"Are we an agency that is also kind of a product? Is the agency a product? The product an agency? We’re an agenuct? No, pragency."

"Acceleration without losing quality is a company-wide goal, not just a design, product, or tech goal."

"AI doesn't make bad ideas more dangerous. It makes unfinished ideas more convincing."

"We went from stitching wireframes to actually designing in code—no more simulacra."

"We had to stop and ask, should AI be used for this problem space at all?"

"It feels like we’ve forgotten to ask what the humans were actually building while chasing the tools."

"Rosenverse Gold now includes a streamable library of Rosenfeld books, which we think is pretty cool."

"This interface could field any request, no matter how it was formatted, and adapt its entire form in its response."

"Dev plus AI ships directly to production with no one with taste in between."

"UX people can help build the future of AI if we strap on our backpack, meaning our core skills."

"The real problem is that the team is already making decisions in incomplete conditions."

"Don’t type with AI, talk to it like a brilliant colleague who knows nothing about your project yet—give it everything."

"An agent is something that works when you are not around."

"The most basic level of power is consent — did you choose to be in this situation or use this product?"

"The traditional handoff between design and engineering is officially dead."

"Less handoff and more collaboration is becoming possible by bringing designers into the workflow with AI assistance."