An AI x Design Evening
An intimate, in-person evening for senior+ product designers in London to get hands-on with AI tools through live walkthroughs, shared coffee, and optional time to build together.
We're bringing together ~30 senior product designers to learn together by making real things.
5:30pm – Doors open, get coffee, say hello
6:00pm – Community demos
6:30pm – Live walkthrough from special guest Christine Røde
7:30pm – Hands-on build time & socialise
9:00pm – Wrap up
You're welcome to leave after the 6:30pm session, but we'd love you to stay, build and socialise.
Community demos (6pm)
Built something with AI? We’d love to see it.
Send us a link to a project you’d like to demo in your event application. No slides and no polished presentation—just connect your laptop and spend a couple of minutes showing the community what you’ve made, how it works and what you learned along the way.
Live walkthroughs (6:30pm)
Christine Røde is a product designer at The Browser Company, where she’s helping shape Dia and exploring how AI can make the web more useful and creative. She was previously a Staff Product Designer at WhatsApp, Deliveroo, Facebook and more.
Christine is going to give us a behind-the-scenes look at how she redesigned AI-generated documents, or "artifacts," to feel considered and human rather than generic. She'll share how old-school print constraints inspired a distinctive look for everyday file outputs and Dia's daily "Morning Brief," which pairs LLM-written text with curated public-domain art.
Build time (7:30pm)
A low-pressure space to experiment with tools like Cursor, Claude Code, or whatever you've been curious to try. No prior AI experience required.
Not sure what to build or which tools to use? The group can help you figure it out. Laptops required - there are only participants here, not spectators.
We'll wrap with show + tell demos: what you tried, what worked, what didn't.
Why this exists
No one needs another podcast, LinkedIn post, or YouTube video about AI. You need the time and space to actually use the tools yourself, to feel first-hand what they're great at and where they fall apart, which is hard when your day-to-day is full of back-to-backs.
This is that space.
Building alongside peers adds a little accountability and a lot of momentum. You can try something, get stuck, ask for help, and share what you made. All in the same morning.
This isn't about reach or performance. It's about getting real about what's actually possible with these tools, and bringing a practical lens to how they fit into your daily work.
You're welcome to use the build time to experiment wildly, or build something for your actual job.
Who this is for
Seasoned product designers. Your title might include Lead, Staff, Manager, or Director. You have the altitude to see strategic opportunities across your organisation and understand how to drive outsized impact through your work. You just haven't had the space to apply that lens to AI yet.
Seniority doesn't matter once you're in the room. There's no hierarchy here. Everyone's a builder, everyone's experimenting, everyone's figuring it out.
This isn't a talk or a panel. It's a morning to get inspired by and build alongside people like you.