🍂🧑🏫 October Design Talks: Manhattan Field Trip to BrainStation 🤓🗽
Join us for a night of talks and meeting fellow designers at BrainStation in Manhattan!
This event is sponsored and hosted by BrainStation, the global leader in digital skills learning.
To further support the Brooklyn Product Design community, BrainStation is thrilled to provide access to a number of scholarships for their bootcamps and courses ranging across UX Design, Software Engineering, Data Science, Product Management, Digital Marketing and more. Sign up through this page to learn more about the opportunity and a BrainStation Advisor will be in touch with you regarding next steps.
About BrainStation:
Founded in 2012, BrainStation works with industry leaders from the most innovative companies, developing cutting-edge digital education that has empowered more than 100,000 professionals and some of the largest corporations in the world.
BrainStation's courses provide students with the skills employers are looking for in today’s job market. From the stunning SoHo campus, BrainStation trains thousands of professionals across New York every year, preparing them for the fastest-growing jobs in technology.
⏱️ Schedule
6:30pm: Check-in, mingle, grab some light dinner and refreshments
7:00pm: Event kickoff and intros
7:05pm: Stories from my path to Design Director with Melanie Hambarsoomian
7:30pm: Break
7:35pm: Bridging Design and Production: Tips and Pitfalls for Prototyping and Design Handover using Cursor with David da Silva Contín
8:00pm: Continue networking at Vig Bar!
🎙️ Talk 1: Stories from my path to Design Director
by Melanie Hambarsoomian
In this talk, Melanie shares her story of her career. Let Melanie know what else you want to hear by filling out this Google Form.
Melanie Hambarsoomian is Director of Product Design for AI and Product Analytics at Contentsquare. She's worked in London, Berlin, and Sydney (where she's from).
🎙️ Talk 2: Bridging Design and Production: Tips and Pitfalls for Prototyping and Design Handover using Cursor
by David da Silva Contín
AI tools like Cursor are changing how designers work—but they’re not plug-and-play. In this talk, I’ll share a workflow that anyone can use to create prototypes that leverage your design system. We’ll walk through how this played out in a real-world project, what it takes to set it up, make it work well, and when it’s the right choice (vs. when it isn’t). You’ll leave with practical tips to cut Figma grind, and ways to make your team faster at implementing designs.
David da Silva Contín is a Senior Product Designer at climate tech startup Green Project, drawing on his background as a software engineer and his ongoing experiments with LLMs to design AI features and streamline product workflows.
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