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From Design Systems to Interaction Systems: Creating Coherent AI Experiences
How Connor Joyce Sees AI Transforming Product Coherence In a year defined by rapid AI adoption, Connor (Senior User Researcher at Microsoft) delivered a talk at UXDX EMEA 2025 that cut through the hype with a clear call for discipline. Rather than
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How to use AI to become a 10x Product Team
Product teams are standing at the edge of a seismic shift. The ones who thrive will be those who build at the frontier of AI capability, compress product cycles from months to minutes, and think beyond their remit acting as AI general
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Human-Centered AI Across Standard Chartered
In an era obsessed with automation, Emily Yang (Head of Human-Centered AI and Innovation - Strategy and Talent at Standard Chartered) argues that AI’s real potential lies not in replacing people but in empowering them. Speaking at EMEA 2025, she showed
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Building AI-Driven Workflows at Airtable: Play, Prove, Productionise
“Everything we’ve known is changing right now. Do not rely on what you know. Step back and figure out the next set of best practices.” Jimmy Hillis, VP and Head of Engineering, Airtable Three Waves, One Inflection Jimmy doesn’t open
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Designing for Business Impact: A Transformation Journey at Uber
A design team is hidden in a corner of the company. Cross-functional partners are unsure who to talk to. Confidence is low, and influence is slipping. When Joann Wu stepped into Uber as Vice President and Global Head of Design, she
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Everyone's Onboard. So Why Isn't Change Happening?
The room says yes, the slide says value, the pilot says proof. Then Monday arrives, and nothing moves. In Everyone’s Onboard. So, Why Isn’t Change Happening? Rory Madden slices through the polite theatre of transformation to reveal the two levers
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Reframing UX in Complex Organisations: Marijke Jorritsma
When products slow, meetings multiply, and decisions dissolve into “task forces to decide how to decide,” the problem isn’t your interface. It’s your organisation.
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1Win Sportsbook Review: Football, Cricket and Live Betting
A teenage death-metal fan who swore he’d never work at a bank walks on stage and opens with a promise: “This talk is guaranteed AI-free.” Steven smiles, then gets serious. The real superpower in complex organizations isn’t another
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Evolution of Grammarly's Platform: From Developer Operations to Developer Experience
From Operations to Experience: How Grammarly Rebuilt Its Engineering Culture What makes 500 engineers move in sync without slowing each other down? At Grammarly, the answer wasn’t a new framework or another automation layer; it was a change in philosophy. “We
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Bridging the Gap: How Product, UX, and Dev Can Build AI-Native Products Together
When AI blurs the lines between designer, developer, and product manager, what holds a team together isn’t process. It's purpose. “It’s a team sport,” says Jacobus Kok of Priceline. “The more fluid you keep it, the better the
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From Vendor to Partner: Getting the Most Out of Your Agency Relationship
“Stop buying deliverables. Start buying outcomes. When you and your agency align on why the work matters, scope stops ballooning, invoices stop surprising, and momentum finally sticks.” Agencies inspire strong feelings. Some swear by them, others have the scars to prove it.
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Bridging Perspectives: A Framework for Seamless Collaboration Between UX Researchers and Product Analysts
“Numbers without context can be misleading. Stories without scale can be dismissed. But when UX researchers and product analysts join forces, the full picture emerges and with it, better products.” That was the central argument made by Archana Shah, Principal UX Researcher,
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How To Use Your Learning & Development (L&D) Budget: Books, Courses, Conferences, And More
Most employees never use their learning and development (L&D) budget, sometimes also called a training budget. Here’s how to spend it wisely: books, online courses, workshops, degrees and conferences compared.
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