This talk explores human–computer interaction through the design of programmable creative tools. Drawing on my work maintaining Strudel, a live-coded music system, I’ll examine how having absolute freedom over human–machine interfaces enables more intimate and natural interactions. With a background in instrument making, I frame software as an interactive artefact meant to be tuned and […]

Design like no-one is watching challenges designers to let go of industry expectations, peer pressure, and trends. In a world increasingly shaped by AI and templated design, this talk is a call to rediscover your creative instincts, take risks, and design with emotion. It’s about making work that feels human, meaningful, distinctive, and memorable – […]

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.

Your data is flawless. Your product is revolutionary. Your audience is bored. Susan Lindner has spent over 20 years inside the innovation hubs of Google, Amazon and GE. She knows exactly why your best ideas get stuck in a spreadsheet. This talk focuses on the high stakes of getting your story wrong. It is time […]

Daniel will unpack the rise of agentic payments, the UCP standard’s role in e-commerce, and how frontier AI models are reshaping who builds, breaks, and buys online. Designers and product leaders will learn how to stay ahead by embracing agent-friendly design and rethinking security.

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: […]

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 […]

Most SaaS funnels leak long before a user ever clicks “Start trial.” In this hands-on case study, Vladana will show how her team redesigned a real SaaS client’s funnel, from irrelevant traffic and zero conversions to a consistent flow of paying users. You’ll see the original setup, the key mistakes they found, the new structure […]

We’ve entered the era of “just add AI.” Slap a prompt box on it, ship it, call it intelligent. But the products people love don’t feel like AI demos. They feel obvious, fast, and considered. They have taste. Taste isn’t subjective fluff. It’s the difference between a streaming response that renders progressively and one that […]

AI can now generate entire interfaces’ worth of text in seconds. But how do we know if the words are actually good? This talk is for designers, product managers, and anyone else who already uses AI to write UX content and needs a clearer way to judge what it produces. It offers a simple, practical […]