Designing for Agents ⟡ When Psychology Meets UX
About the Event
Employed.world, educational partner for Ixdf Berlin brings you an event series. We would love to meet all of you and collaborate with you to give this platform for you to meet other interaction designers in Berlin and learn or share.
If you are not a member you can get 3 months for free (with the annual plan) using our invite link, Also you will be supporting this meetup and help us continue the community building efforts by joining IxDF using our invite link
When Psychology Meets UX is an event series created for UX designers and product thinkers who are curious about the human side of decision-making and how it shows up in real products.
What you can expect
For years, good design has meant designing for people: how they read a screen, where their attention goes, what makes them hesitate or trust. But agents don't scan a layout or feel friction. They parse structure, follow rules, and act in milliseconds. So what happens to all that hard-won craft when your user is a machine working on someone's behalf?
In this session, Aswin Ranganathan gets specific about the difference between designing for humans and designing for agents, and why they are more relatable than you think. Aswin’s journey spans both sides of the AI space. After leading a design team at Delivery Hero, he transitioned into AI engineering. Then he built an agentic product through his company, Sunlight. That gives him a unique perspective of designing for humans, and now designing for agents that work for humans.
You will leave with a practical feel for where human-centered design still holds, where it needs rethinking, and how to start designing for a world where your product is used by people and their agents at the same time.
After the talk, we'll leave plenty of time to hang out, meet new people, and keep the conversation going over snacks and drinks.
Event Agenda
18:00 – 18:30 Check Ins
18:30 – 18:45 Event Intro
18:45 – 19:15 Designing for Agents by Aswin Ranganathan, AI Engineer at Delivery Hero
19:15 – 19:30 Interactive session
19:30 – 21:00 Networking, snacks & drinks
This Series
Each month, we mix learning with honest conversations, sharing ideas, tools, and reflections on how behavioral science can shape the way we design and think.
It’s a friendly space to connect, exchange experiences, and grow as more mindful, human-centered designers.
We would love to know if you would like to join us by Sponsoring us, supporting us as a volunteer or taking the stage as a speaker, fill up this quick form, and we'll contacting you.
About Ixdf Berlin
The Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF) is an online learning platform and global community offering affordable, high-quality courses in UX design, usability, and interaction design.
About Employed.world
Employed.world is a Berlin-based community for designers, product people, and tech folks navigating the current job market. We connect you with mentors, coaches, and hiring experts, UX, Engineering, Data and AI, for honest feedback and career support.
Get 3 months for free (with the annual plan) using our invite link and also support our event that way :)
About Zeitgeist Zentrum
A huge thank you to Zeitgeist Zentrum for hosting us. [ˈzʌɪtɡʌɪst] is a centre for language, culture, wellness and community in the heart of Wedding, a multifunctional space built around cross-cultural exchange, creativity, and learning. Best known as a bilingual language school for adults, it also runs an arts and culture programme and opens its studio to gatherings like ours. We're grateful to be holding this session in their space.