Recordings

Event Recordings

Explore our collection of Chicago Camps’ most enriching design dialogues, from the concise, engaging dialogues of Tent Talks to the in-depth explorations at UX Camp, and the visionary perspectives at Leadership By Design.

Whether you’re revisiting a favorite session or discovering new insights, these recordings are your gateway to an ever-expanding world of design knowledge and leadership wisdom.

Discover, learn, and be inspired by the diverse voices that have shaped our vibrant design community.

Christian Lane – Christian Lane Performs

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...

2 Min Read

Emily Haines Lloyd – Somebody Meant This: A Conversation With Emily Haines Lloyd

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...

2 Min Read

Dan Saffer – Six Futures

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...

4 Min Read

Natalie M. Dunbar – The Business of Boundaries: Maintaining a Healthy and Sustainable UX Practice

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,...

3 Min Read

Jessica DeMartini – You’re Not Behind: Finding Your AI Workflow

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....

3 Min Read

Adam Cutler – What’s Yours to Keep: Designing alongside AI without giving up the work that made you a designer.

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...

3 Min Read

Anne Cantera – The New Design Stack: The Skills Traditional Designers Need to Add To Their Toolboxes ASAP

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,...

2 Min Read

Christian Crumlish – Hilarious Tales of Failure: What a Year of Building With AI Taught Me

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...

3 Min Read

Guppy Ahluwalia – Token times: Organizational practices in a resource-constrained environment.

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...

2 Min Read

Caitlin Steele – Defensible Space

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...

3 Min Read

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