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.

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

Billie Mandel and Jessica DeMartini – The AI Reality Check: Hype, Harm, and How UX Leads

UX Camp Winter 2026 The AI Reality Check: Hype, Harm, and How UX Leads AI is showing up everywhere in our work, but the conversation often splits into extremes: productivity hacks, debates about creativity, or fear-driven doom. This session pulls...

3 Min Read

Niketa Jhaveri – Design Leadership in the Age of AI: Leading with Clarity, Courage, and Chaos-Taming

UX Camp Winter 2026 Design Leadership in the Age of AI: Leading with Clarity, Courage, and Chaos-Taming Design leaders are no longer just managing projects, they’re shaping how organizations innovate in an era defined by AI, rapid change, and constant...

3 Min Read

Bex Jeanson – You Can’t Wireframe Culture, But You Can Design It!

UX Camp Winter 2026 You Can’t Wireframe Culture, But You Can Design It! Have you ever logged into work and felt like something was off — like the vibes used to be better, but you couldn’t quite put your finger...

3 Min Read

Twisha Shah Brandenburg – From Resistance to Reinvention: The Human Work of Design Maturity

UX Camp Winter 2026 From Resistance to Reinvention: The Human Work of Design Maturity We talk about design maturity as if it’s a process problem, more methods, more playbooks, more frameworks. But the truth is, most of the resistance leaders...

3 Min Read

Tanya Snook – Are You Performing Workshop Theatre? (3 Red Flags)

UX Camp Winter 2026 Are You Performing Workshop Theatre? (3 Red Flags) 72% of meetings are unproductive, costing $37B annually (Zippia). Sticky notes everywhere, outcomes nowhere. Are your workshops any better — or just Workshop Theatre (superficial collaboration rituals that...

2 Min Read

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