UX Beers Antwerp June @ Craftzing

Welcome to our June UX Beers in Antwerp!
This time, we will host our event on Tuesday the 30th of June at Craftzing in Antwerp.
Ariad and Creative Skills sponsor our events.
Follow the event online? We stream live via Youtube

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### UX TALKS

Talk 1: UX with AI: Did we all just get promoted?
By An-Sofie Rombouts, Product designer @ Gorilla

Working in a startup often means designing without established UX processes. So with AI emerging, it can feel like a lifeline: faster prototyping, 'deeper' research, and more concepts to explore. But somewhere between the third AI-generated prototype and losing the thread of your prompted designs, it can become painfully obvious what the impact is of designing with LLMs.

We're not executing anymore, we're reviewing, approving, and critiquing, like a manager.

This talk gets honest about what that actually means: the speed gains are real, but the cognitive debt is quietly compounding, and your future as a designer depends on understanding why.

Explore how designers can protect their cognitive depth, enhance their review capacity, and stay in control when the machine can almost draw anything.

Talk 2: Growing UX in organisations that are not there yet.
By Koen Peters, Designer at Namahn
More and more organisations are asking us to help build design expertise in-house, even putting together a design team for them. I have learnt that in such cases, you need to set aside your own biases and assumptions first: your neatly mapped-out methodology, your Figma dogmas and all the other things you as a design agency take for granted. The reality in these organisations is often very different: limited resources, no design culture and few or no trained designers on the team. Through a few client case studies, I will show how we have tackled such