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NoVA Create: From AI Skeptic to Shipping Software - A Designer's Questionable Adventure

Name: NoVA Create: From AI Skeptic to Shipping Software - A Designer's Questionable Adventure
Start: 2026-10-20T18:00:00.000-04:00
End: 2026-10-20T19:00:00.000-04:00
Location: Viget

NoVA Create

Viget

Falls Church, VA

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Join us for our October event featuring Erich Rainville, Human Centered Design Expert at Inadev!

Doors open: 530pmET

Event begins: 600pmET

Details below, please note that our events will NOT be recorded.

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From AI Skeptic to Shipping Software: A Designer’s Questionable Adventure

After being laid off, I dusted off a 14-year-old app idea and used AI to help turn it into a working product—despite not being a backend developer, database admin, QA tester, or product manager.

This will be part practical walkthrough, part interactive discussion. I’ll share the documents and workflow that kept me from pure “vibe coding,” show some of the real code and decisions behind the app, and possibly do a little live vibe coding—assuming the demo gods cooperate. We’ll also talk honestly about what this means for designers: the opportunities, the risks, and the mild existential dread.

But Wait There's More!

We'll also be hearing from Salman Sajid and Nick Leach about their work on a brand new visual identity for NoVA Create...

AND we'll be hearing from Chris Jones about an exciting new collaboration program for the group!

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