A live workshop for design, product & engineering teams
AI is collapsing the walls between Product, Design, and Engineering. This interactive session helps design teams understand what's actually changing, why the old boundaries won't hold, and where the real leverage is now — through live polling, group exercises, and results the room builds together in real time.
Chris Gielow
Human Designer
Chris Gielow is a UX design leader with more than 30 years of experience building products, teams, and design organizations. He has led design teams at Walmart and Intuit, published research on AI-driven user experiences, and serves as President of UX Speakeasy, Southern California's largest UX community. As a Top 100 ADPList mentor, Chris has conducted more than 150 mentoring sessions over the past year, helping designers navigate one of the most challenging and transformative periods in the history of the UX profession. This unique vantage point informs his perspectives on hiring, career growth, and the future of design.
What's inside
Exercise 1
Your Work
Think back on last week. What did you actually spend your time on?
Exercise 2
Finding Your Leverage
Rank six types of design work by where you spend your time, then by where AI has the edge.
Exercise 3
Borrow Someone Else's Job
Pick a role. What decisions do they make, what do they know that designers don't, and what could you borrow?
Exercise 4
Your Next 90 Days
Stop / start / continue.