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How ITVX Turned Complexity into Cross-Functional Alignment
Design systems are often imagined as clean libraries, neat components and perfectly governed tokens. But inside large organisations, the real work is rarely that tidy. In her talk at UXDX EMEA 2026, Marianne Ashton-Booth, Head of Product Design and Design Systems
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Zero-Blocker Delivery: Closing the Design–Engineering Gap
“Gavin wasn’t trying to block the work. He was essentially trying to protect the team from uncertainty.” - Marcus Knight, Head of UX at N26 Most handoff problems do not start when engineering opens the file. They start much earlier, when design
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One Look, Many Stacks: How Siemens Keeps Hundreds of Products Recognisable.
"I have a really deep desire to combine those two design systems, but I can't do that in a way that alienates the very people who I depend on using it to meet my primary goal, which is products
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How Allied Solutions Built a UX Team That Earned Influence
"How are we going to earn trust and gain influence throughout the organization so that we can help solve some of Allied's biggest digital problems?" That was the real question Ben Hewett's team had to answer,
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If AI Can Build Products, What Are The Humans For?
AI can now write code, generate prototypes and ship functional products at a speed that would have seemed unrealistic even a year ago. But faster output does not answer the harder question: should this product exist at all? In his UXDX talk,
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Designing for Agent Experience: Why AI Is Collapsing UX and DX
A lot of product development friction hides in plain sight. Someone has an idea, but before they can test it, they have to understand the tooling. They need to know where the work lives, how the deployment process works, what an error
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Building the Next Generation of Software
AI does not just add a new feature to software but it changes what software is, how it is built and how fast teams are expected to move. In his talk at UXDX, Des Traynor, Co-Founder of Fin, shared the story
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How Pinterest Builds Visual Experiences That Connect
AI can generate endless answers, but inspiration is not the same as connection. In her talk at UXDX, Larkin Brown, Sr. Director Product Research at Pinterest, showed how years of human-centred research are being woven into AI-powered product experiences. Her
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AI doesn't read your design system the way you do
By Robin Cannon, VP of Product, Knapsack Ask an AI tool to build a screen today and watch what it reaches for. Inside tools like v0, Cursor, and Figma Make, a model will generate a working interface in seconds — and most of
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Why AI Is Making Design Converge on the Same Look
By Anamol Rajbhandari In 1997, a small piece of software called Auto-Tune arrived in recording studios, built to do something narrow and technical, which was to nudge a slightly flat or sharp vocal back onto the note it had been reaching
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Best use of AI Finalists: Three Teams Integrating AI
The Best Use of AI Award is for teams that have meaningfully integrated AI into their workflow or product. As a change in how they work, make decisions, or build better products. This year’s final three show three different ways AI
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The Unblocker Award Finalists: Three Teams That Increased Cross-Functional Collaboration
The Unblocker Award is for teams that successfully removed organisational, structural, or process barriers that slow cross-functional collaboration down, and can show the difference it made. This year’s final three are: * Delivery Hero - Cape Multibrand Design System: Connecting 10 Design
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Impact Award Finalists: Three Teams Turning Evidence Into Real Outcomes
The Impact Award is for teams whose evidence directly drove real outcomes, including user adoption, retention, and conversion. This year’s final three tell three very different but equally strong stories: * All human & Power NI, for redesigning Help & Support to
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