Design like no-one is watching challenges designers to let go of industry expectations, peer pressure, and safe conventions. In a world of sameness and templates, this talk is a call to rediscover instinct, take creative risks, and design with emotion. It’s about making work that feels human, distinctive, and memorable, work that connects with people, […]
We’ve all heard that we should test our software, but what happens when we don’t? Sometimes, it leads to strange and unexplainable events. Is ‘testing more’ always the right solution? What do these bugs reveal about software and its failures? And how can we use these lessons to build more resilient systems? Let’s explore together […]
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AI is transforming how work gets done, but without the right skills, teams risk lower performance, poor decisions, and wasted investments. In this session, Daria will share case studies that will reveal both the business risks of over-relying on AI and the performance gains when leaders get it right. Drawing on her books CLICKING and […]
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Most product teams don’t fail due to poor design, weak research or bad engineering – they crash because they build the wrong thing on a foundation of hope. In this high-energy session, discover how unreliable self-reports and opinion-led decisions fuel catastrophic failures. Drawing on Scientific Design principles, learn an evidence-led playbook for the AI era: […]
Ever feel like your Git history resembles a crime scene? In this darkly funny session, we will examine the worst Git offenses, from catastrophic rebases to vicious merge conflicts. Framed as a ‘how-to’ crime guide, we will highlight all the wrong ways to use Git: force-pushing to main, recklessly rewriting history, and hiding your mistakes […]
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Break free from analysis paralysis. Hourglass Analysis is a pragmatic approach to qualitative data analysis that intentionally incorporates top-down (deductive) and bottom-up (inductive) thinking. Katherine will share a recent case study about how she has applied this framework to research on how Wise customers use the Swift network, which led to a mindset shift in […]
JavaScript is weird and that’s why we love it. In this talk, we’ll explore the strangest, funniest, and most broken behaviours hiding in JS and browser APIs. From [] == ![] being true, to overwriting the user’s clipboard with a single line of code, this is a tour of JavaScript’s most “beautiful” chaos.
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