Design Evenings LDN: How Designers at Monzo Are Actually Using AI

​Join us for an evening with Heldiney Pereira, Susan Walsh, and Ben Strak from Monzo as they share how designers are actually using AI in their day-to-day work. From experimentation to shipping, they’ll explore how AI is reshaping the craft of design.

​Speakers

• ​Heldiney Pereira - Senior Lead Product Designer

​Heldiney Pereira is a Senior Lead Product Designer at Monzo, leading design for business banking subscriptions and helping simplify the experience of running a business for small business owners. Outside Monzo, he is co-founder and CEO of Flynt, a professional networking platform built on AI-driven matching. He speaks regularly across the UK (and occasionally Europe) on design, leadership and building things that matter.

• ​Susan Walsh - Lead Product Designer

​Susan Walsh is a Lead Product Designer at Monzo, leading Business Banking on Web. She specialises in information architecture and platform design, defining how complex financial workflows are structured and scaled. Her work has established the foundations for Monzo’s BB Web design system and interaction model, enabling teams to build consistently and independently.

• ​Benjamin Strak - Senior Lead Product Designer

​Ben Strak is a Senior Lead Product Designer at Monzo currently working on AI-powered personalisation and product and feature discovery in the mobile app. He specialises in bringing clear direction to ambiguous problem spaces, and creating magical high-craft products that customers love.

​Event Overview

​AI in design can feel uncertain at first. This session explores how three designers moved from hesitation to hands-on experimentation, and what changed once they started building with AI.

• ​01

  • ​Starting With Play - Learn how setting aside time to experiment with AI without pressure can shift your mindset, unlock creativity, and influence how you approach real design work.

• ​02

  • ​Building What Was Not Possible Before - Discover how AI enables designers to go beyond speeding up workflows and instead create entirely new experiences, from large-scale prototyping to AI-powered products.

• ​03

  • ​From Discomfort to Momentum - Explore how the early challenges of adopting AI can turn into flow, reducing the cost of experimentation and helping designers move ideas from backlog to reality faster.