Conferences

Leadership By Design 2026 Christian Lane Performs A desktop concert set from Christian Lane including covers and originals, with stories and tales from a career engulfed in music. Christian made records with Loud Lucy on DGC in the mid-90s, opened...

Leadership By Design 2026 Somebody Meant This: A Conversation With Emily Haines Lloyd Emily Haines Lloyd has spent twenty years writing copy for brands. She also writes and self-publishes her own small, perfectly lovable and timely books, Pep Talk Poetry...

Leadership By Design 2026 Six Futures In an AI world, apps don’t have a single future. They have six, and soon, a given product might occupy three or four of those positions at the same time. For companies building AI-powered...

Leadership By Design 2026 The Business of Boundaries: Maintaining a Healthy and Sustainable UX Practice We talk about boundaries like they’re walls — keep people out, say no, protect your time. There’s a more useful way to think about it,...

Leadership By Design 2026 You’re Not Behind: Finding Your AI Workflow You think AI is coming for design. I’m not going to tell you it isn’t; I’m going to tell you what it’s coming for and what it can’t touch....

Leadership By Design 2026 What’s Yours to Keep: Designing alongside AI without giving up the work that made you a designer. You think AI is coming for design. I’m not going to tell you it isn’t; I’m going to tell...

Leadership By Design 2026 The New Design Stack: The Skills Traditional Designers Need to Add To Their Toolboxes ASAP The New Design Stack explores the skills designers need for a world where experiences move across chat, voice, visual interfaces, agents,...

Leadership By Design 2026 Hilarious Tales of Failure: What a Year of Building With AI Taught Me None of us feel like experts right now, and the loudest voices online are making that worse. I want to fix that for...

UX Camp Winter 2026 Token times: Organizational practices in a resource-constrained environment. Re-orgs, reductions in force (RIF’s) and LLM’s are only some of the tools in our operational toolkit. Building swiftly at scale requires leaders to let go of headcount-heavy...

UX Camp Winter 2026 Defensible Space You have probably seen the survey results by now. Design has the lowest manager ratings in tech, and you are doing the opposite of failing: holding your team together, protecting work that is being...