Rosenfeld Community

Friday, May 8, 2026 • Rosenfeld Community

How Will Design be Taught When the Schools Shut Down?

Nathan Shedroff • Co-author of Blind Spot and Make It So; author of Design Is the Problem
Hugh Dubberly • Designer, Design Theorist, and Educator
Thomas J. McLeish • Lecturer, UC Berkeley & CCA

Thursday, April 30, 2026 • Rosenfeld Community

Craft a Vision that Actually Gets Shipped

Catt Small • Staff Product Designer at Dropbox and Author of The Staff Designer

Thursday, April 23, 2026 • Rosenfeld Community

Measure Behaviors, Not Results

Johnny Michaelsen • Director of Design & Research Operations @ Wise

Wednesday, April 22, 2026 • Rosenfeld Community

An AMA on UX's Role in Healthcare

Eric Shumake • Principal Researcher at HXRlabs.com

Friday, April 17, 2026 • Rosenfeld Community

Systems Thinking and Design Innovation: Working with Leverage Points in Rural Maternal Health Systems

Meghan Bausone • Doctor of Design, NC State University

Thursday, April 16, 2026 • Rosenfeld Community

If design had a heart

Himanshu Bharadwaj • Founder, Joyful Design

Friday, April 10, 2026 • Rosenfeld Community

Exit Interview: 20 Years of Tech, One Very Big Bet, and a Lot of Heat Pumps

Sara Conklin • Customer Operations Manager, Vayu

Thursday, April 9, 2026 • Rosenfeld Community

Diagnosis UX: Building Influence in Healthcare Design

Eric Shumake • Principal Researcher at HXRlabs.com

Friday, March 27, 2026 • Rosenfeld Community

Co-Design vs Faux-Design: Navigating the Complexities of Sharing Power in Co-Design

Samuel Martin • CEO/Founder, SDM Consulting (Co-Design Institute)

Monday, March 16, 2026 • Rosenfeld Community

How to use the Rosenbot

Louis Rosenfeld • Founder, Publisher, & CEO, Rosenfeld Media

Sunday, March 15, 2026 • Rosenfeld Community

About the Rosenverse

Louis Rosenfeld • Founder, Publisher, & CEO, Rosenfeld Media

Thursday, March 5, 2026 • Rosenfeld Community

Designing AI Applications

Luke Wroblewski • Author of Web Form Design

Wednesday, March 4, 2026 • Rosenfeld Community

The Handoff is Dead: Design-Led Engineering with AI Agents

Erika Flowers • Principal Service Designer, Author, Facilitator

Thursday, February 26, 2026 • Rosenfeld Community

When AI Agents Meet Reality. Service Design Lessons from a Pilot

Tina Weisser • Professor / Consultant, MUC.DAI at University of Applied Sciences Munich

Wednesday, February 25, 2026 • Rosenfeld Community

Improving Democratized Research with CustomGPTs and Gems

Mike Oren • Head of Design Research, Klaviyo

Friday, February 20, 2026 • Rosenfeld Community

Finding More Inroads into Research Impact

Jake Burghardt • Consultant and Writer, Integrating Research

Thursday, February 19, 2026 • Rosenfeld Community

Exit Interview #5: Designing My Life After Tech

Ashley Sewall • Real Estate Agent / Yoga Instructor, Providence Land and Home

Thursday, February 12, 2026 • Rosenfeld Community

Designing From the Inside Out: How Method Acting Can Inspire Design Research

Daniel Gloyd • Independent Design & Research Consultant

Thursday, February 5, 2026 • Rosenfeld Community

Designing Interactive Graphics with AI Code Help

Steve Turbek • Founder, Mechanical Library

Friday, January 30, 2026 • Rosenfeld Community

Hopeful Futures for UX Research

James Lang • Founder & collective member, Together by Design

Friday, January 16, 2026 • Rosenfeld Community

Beyond Clicks and Tricks: Why deceptive design has grown into a regulatory faultline

Harry Brignull • Founder, Deceptive Patterns Initiative
Mark Leiser • Author, Dark Patterns, Deceptive Design, and the Law
Robert Stribley • Author, Design for Privacy

Wednesday, January 14, 2026 • Rosenfeld Community

Exit Interview #4: From Product Design Leadership to Sound Healing

Mary-Lynne Williams • CEO/Founder, Buffalo Firefly Wellness

Friday, January 9, 2026 • Rosenfeld Community

Embrace Your Fun Factor: Game Development Best Practices for Product Design

Cheryl Platz • Author of Design Beyond Devices

Thursday, January 8, 2026 • Rosenfeld Community

Garbage in, garbage out? Measuring error rates to get ready for AI

Caroline Jarrett • Author of Surveys That Work

Wednesday, December 17, 2025 • Rosenfeld Community

Exit Interview #3: Same as It Ever Was: What Leaving Tech Taught Me About Change

Chelsey Glasson • 2L Law Student, William S. Boyd School of Law

Wednesday, December 10, 2025 • Rosenfeld Community

Non-linear service design for complex adaptive systems

Kyle Godbey • Service Design Lead, Freelance Consultant

Wednesday, November 12, 2025 • Rosenfeld Community

The 2025 State of UX/Design Organizational Health

Peter Merholz • Chief Humanist, Humanism at Scale

Thursday, November 6, 2025 • Rosenfeld Community

Exit Interview #2: Rediscovering the ethical heart of design

Cennydd Bowles • Managing Director, NowNext

Thursday, October 30, 2025 • Rosenfeld Community

Unmasking Design Leadership: Navigating leadership without neglecting ourselves

Jason Mesut • Coach, Consultant, Connector, Resonant Design and Innovation LTD
Martina Hodges-Schell • Transformation Coach & Consultant, Founder of Northshore
Jose Coronado • Advisor, Fractional Design Executive, Digital Impulsum

Wednesday, October 29, 2025 • Rosenfeld Community

What Beekeeping Taught me about Product Teams

Mariesa Lenz • Chief of Staff, Hamlet

Thursday, October 23, 2025 • Rosenfeld Community

From Doodle to Demo: AI as Our Storytelling Partner

Maverick Chan • Product Designer, GoInvo
Claire Lin • Product Designer, GoInvo

Wednesday, October 22, 2025 • Rosenfeld Community

Hands on AI #3: Claude Code for UX people

Peter Van Dijck • UX and AI builder, CEO Sputnik Legal

Wednesday, October 15, 2025 • Rosenfeld Community

Hands-on AI #2: Understanding evals: LLM as a Judge

Peter Van Dijck • UX and AI builder, CEO Sputnik Legal

Wednesday, October 8, 2025 • Rosenfeld Community

Hands-on AI #1: Let’s write your first AI eval

Peter Van Dijck • UX and AI builder, CEO Sputnik Legal

Wednesday, October 1, 2025 • Rosenfeld Community

Integrating Systems Thinking Into Your Practice as a Designer

Sheryl Cababa • Author of Closing the Loop

Thursday, September 25, 2025 • Rosenfeld Community

Practical DesignOps: From Ideas to Tools That Teams Actually Use

Changying (Z) Zheng • Head of Product Experience Operations, Cloudflare

Wednesday, September 24, 2025 • Rosenfeld Community

Exit Interview #1: Greg Petroff: From Silicon Valley Executive to Sonoma County Possibilitarian

Greg Petroff • Partner, Unfinishe_

Thursday, September 4, 2025 • Rosenfeld Community

Design Now! The Agenda for Action

Juhan Sonin • Director, GoInvo

Wednesday, August 27, 2025 • Rosenfeld Community

Research in the Face of Complexity: New Sensibility for New Situations

Dave Hora • Founder, Dave's Research Company

Thursday, August 14, 2025 • Rosenfeld Community

The Pygmalion Effect: In Which a Vibe Coding Experiment Becomes a Million Lines…

Christian Crumlish • Author of Product Management for UX People

Thursday, August 7, 2025 • Rosenfeld Community

When AI Becomes the User’s Point Person—and Point of Failure

Heidi Trost • Author of Human-Centered Security

Wednesday, July 30, 2025 • Rosenfeld Community

Building impactful AI products for design and product leaders, Part 3: Understand AI architectures: RAG, Agents, Oh My!

Peter Van Dijck • UX and AI builder, CEO Sputnik Legal

Wednesday, July 23, 2025 • Rosenfeld Community

Building impactful AI products for design and product leaders, Part 2: Evals are your moat

Peter Van Dijck • UX and AI builder, CEO Sputnik Legal

Thursday, July 17, 2025 • Rosenfeld Community

Uncovering the hidden forces shaping user behavior

David Sternberg • Founder, Utorics Institute

Wednesday, July 16, 2025 • Rosenfeld Community

Building impactful AI products for design and product leaders, Part 1: The new product journey

Peter Van Dijck • UX and AI builder, CEO Sputnik Legal

Wednesday, July 16, 2025 • Rosenfeld Community

UX Job Search AMA #3 with Joanne Weaver and Dave Hoffer

Dave Hoffer • Design Leader
Joanne Weaver • Co-founder, The Joanne Weaver Group

Wednesday, July 9, 2025 • Rosenfeld Community

Stop wasting research: Create new value with insight summaries

Jake Burghardt • Consultant and Writer, Integrating Research

Tuesday, June 24, 2025 • Rosenfeld Community

Stop wasting research: Unlock more value from research insights

Jake Burghardt • Consultant and Writer, Integrating Research

Thursday, May 22, 2025 • Rosenfeld Community

If you can design an app, you can design a community

James Lang • Founder & collective member, Together by Design

Wednesday, May 21, 2025 • Rosenfeld Community

UX Job Search AMA #2 with Joanne Weaver and Dave Hoffer

Dave Hoffer • Design Leader
Joanne Weaver • Co-founder, The Joanne Weaver Group

Wednesday, May 14, 2025 • Rosenfeld Community

Why AI projects fail (and what we can do about it)

Dan Saffer • Assistant Professor of the Practice, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

Monday, May 12, 2025 • Rosenfeld Community

We Need To Talk: Managing Ludicrous Requests at Work (Part 3 of 3)

Joshua Graves • Author of We Need to Talk

Thursday, May 1, 2025 • Rosenfeld Community

Rapid AI-powered UX (RAUX): A framework for empowering human designers

Noz Urbina • Founder, Urbina Consulting

Monday, April 28, 2025 • Rosenfeld Community

We Need To Talk: Addressing Unmet Expectations (Part 2 of 3)

Joshua Graves • Author of We Need to Talk

Wednesday, April 16, 2025 • Rosenfeld Community

Learning Is The Engine: Designing & Adapting in a World We Can’t Predict

Jen Briselli • Co-Founder & Principal Strategist, Topology

Monday, April 14, 2025 • Rosenfeld Community

We Need To Talk: Navigating Conversations with Your Boss (Part 1 of 3)

Joshua Graves • Author of We Need to Talk

Thursday, April 3, 2025 • Rosenfeld Community

UX Job Search AMA #2 with Joanne Weaver and Dave Hoffer

Dave Hoffer • Design Leader
Joanne Weaver • Co-founder, The Joanne Weaver Group

Wednesday, April 2, 2025 • Rosenfeld Community

Ask Me Anything (AMA) with Kate Towsey

Kate Towsey • Author of Research That Scales

Thursday, March 27, 2025 • Rosenfeld Community

From AI to Zeitgeist: Theory as the design antidote to AI hype

Uday Gajendar • UX Design Leader
Adam Richardson • Principal, The Enigma Bureau

Wednesday, February 26, 2025 • Rosenfeld Community

Designing Warmth

Daniel Gloyd • Independent Design & Research Consultant

Thursday, February 20, 2025 • Rosenfeld Community

Getting started with accessibility research

Elana Chapman • Senior Manager, Accessibility Research, Fable
Li Wen Huang • Digital User Experience Research and Strategy Expert
Divyen Sanganee • Design Lead, LEGO
Annabel Weiner • UX Accessibility Manager, Ally Bank

Thursday, February 13, 2025 • Rosenfeld Community

AI in Real Life: Using LLMs to Turbocharge Microsoft Learn

Sarah Barrett • Director of Information Architecture, Microsoft

Wednesday, February 12, 2025 • Rosenfeld Community

Sentient Design: New Design Patterns for New Experiences (3rd of 3 seminars)

Josh Clark • Principal of Big Medium, Co-author of Sentient Design
Veronika Kindred • Designer and Researcher at Big Medium, Co-author of Sentient Design

Wednesday, February 5, 2025 • Rosenfeld Community

Avoid Harming Your Team and Users: Promoting Care and Brand Reputation with Trauma-Informed UX Practices

Carol Scott • Trauma-informed researcher
Melissa Eggleston • User Experience Researcher and Designer

Wednesday, January 29, 2025 • Rosenfeld Community

Sentient Design: New Postures for AI-Mediated Experiences (2nd of 3 seminars)

Josh Clark • Principal of Big Medium, Co-author of Sentient Design
Veronika Kindred • Designer and Researcher at Big Medium, Co-author of Sentient Design

Friday, January 24, 2025 • Rosenfeld Community

Make your research synthesis speedy and more collaborative using a canvas

Shipra Kayan • Design Leadership, Miro

Thursday, January 23, 2025 • Rosenfeld Community

To Protect People, You Have to Protect Information: A Human-Centered Design Approach to Cybersecurity

Heidi Trost • Author of Human-Centered Security

Wednesday, January 22, 2025 • Rosenfeld Community

Creating More Bias-Proof Designs

Sandra Camacho • Founder, Sandra By Design

Wednesday, January 15, 2025 • Rosenfeld Community

Sentient Design, AI, and the Radically Adaptive Experience (1st of 3 seminars)

Josh Clark • Principal of Big Medium, Co-author of Sentient Design
Veronika Kindred • Designer and Researcher at Big Medium, Co-author of Sentient Design

Wednesday, January 8, 2025 • Rosenfeld Community

Thinking styles: Mend hidden cracks in your market

Indi Young • Author of Mental Models and Practical Empathy

Thursday, December 12, 2024 • Rosenfeld Community

Have fun with statistics?

Caroline Jarrett • Author of Surveys That Work
Erin Weigel • Author of Design for Impact

Thursday, November 21, 2024 • Rosenfeld Community

AI for Information Architects: Are the robots coming for our jobs?

Karen McGrane • Partner, Autogram
Jeff Eaton • Founding Partner, Autogram

Wednesday, November 20, 2024 • Rosenfeld Community

Turn Down the Heat: 3 Ways to Handle Conflict in the Moment

Laura Weiss • Executive Coach, Leadership and Conflict Specialist

Tuesday, October 8, 2024 • Rosenfeld Community

Ask Me Anything with Leah Buley and Joe Natoli, co-authors of The User Experience Team of One (2nd edition)

Leah Buley • Author of The User Experience Team of One
Joe Natoli • UX Consultant, Co-Author, The User Experience Team of One (2nd Edition)

Wednesday, July 31, 2024 • Rosenfeld Community

AI of the now: Designing for Agents

Christopher Noessel • Author of Designing Assistant Technology and Designing Agentive Technology, co-author of Make It So

Thursday, July 25, 2024 • Rosenfeld Community

The Basics of Automotive UX & Why Phones Are a Part of That Future

James Rampton • Lecturer, University of Michigan

Wednesday, July 24, 2024 • Rosenfeld Community

Get Your Whole Team Testing to Design for Impact

Erin Weigel • Author of Design for Impact

Friday, July 19, 2024 • Rosenfeld Community

Understanding the past to prepare for the future

Erin Malone • Chair, Interaction Design BFA Program, California College of the Arts

Thursday, July 11, 2024 • Rosenfeld Community

AI for Prioritization (3rd of 3 seminars)

Mark Interrante • Former Engineering SVP, HPE Cloud Business
Harry Max • Author of Managing Priorities

Wednesday, July 10, 2024 • Rosenfeld Community

UX Lessons from running more than 1,200 A/B Tests

Erin Weigel • Author of Design for Impact

Thursday, June 27, 2024 • Rosenfeld Community

Prioritization for Leaders (2nd of 3 seminars)

Harry Max • Author of Managing Priorities
Jim Meyer • VP of Engineering, Slack

Wednesday, June 26, 2024 • Rosenfeld Community

Real-world lessons to improve your conversion rates

Erin Weigel • Author of Design for Impact

Friday, June 14, 2024 • Rosenfeld Community

Coffee with Lou #4: Taking a Peek Under the Rosenbot's Hood

Peter Van Dijck • UX and AI builder, CEO Sputnik Legal
Louis Rosenfeld • Founder, Publisher, & CEO, Rosenfeld Media

Thursday, June 13, 2024 • Rosenfeld Community

Prioritization for designers and product managers (1st of 3 seminars)

John Cutler • Senior Director, Product Enablement, Toast
Harry Max • Author of Managing Priorities

Wednesday, May 22, 2024 • Rosenfeld Community

Designing for Wellness: Specializing in Healthcare

Theresa Neil • Founder, Femovate by Guidea

Thursday, May 9, 2024 • Rosenfeld Community

Warming the User Experience: Lessons from America's first and most radical human-centered designers

Daniel Gloyd • Independent Design & Research Consultant

Friday, May 3, 2024 • Rosenfeld Community

AI as Thought Partner: How to Use LLMs to Transform Your Notes (3rd of 3 seminars)

Jorge Arango • Author of Living in Information and Duly Noted

Thursday, May 2, 2024 • Rosenfeld Community

Coffee with Lou #3: What Makes for a Successful UX Conference Presentation?

Louis Rosenfeld • Founder, Publisher, & CEO, Rosenfeld Media
Jemma Ahmed • Advancing Research Curator
Christian Crumlish • Author of Product Management for UX People
Uday Gajendar • UX Design Leader
Chris Geison • Advancing Research Curator

Friday, April 26, 2024 • Rosenfeld Community

There is No Playbook: Leader as Coach During Challenging Times

Laura Weiss • Executive Coach, Leadership and Conflict Specialist

Friday, April 19, 2024 • Rosenfeld Community

Exploding the Notebook: How to Unlock the Power of Linked Notes (2nd of 3 seminars)

Jorge Arango • Author of Living in Information and Duly Noted

Thursday, April 11, 2024 • Rosenfeld Community

Financial fluency for product leaders: AMA with Giff Constable

Giff Constable • Author/Coach

Friday, April 5, 2024 • Rosenfeld Community

The Best of Both Worlds: How to Integrate Paper and Digital Notes (1st of 3 seminars)

Jorge Arango • Author of Living in Information and Duly Noted

Thursday, April 4, 2024 • Rosenfeld Community

Demystifying Multimodal Design: The Design Practice You Didn't Know You're Doing

Cheryl Platz • Author of Design Beyond Devices

Thursday, March 14, 2024 • Rosenfeld Community

Whole Product Thinking: Expanding beyond problem and solution space thinking

Sean McKay • Founder, Product Strategy & Design Consultant, Whole Product Thinking

Thursday, March 7, 2024 • Rosenfeld Community

Coffee with Lou: Should You Write a (UX) Book?

Louis Rosenfeld • Founder, Publisher, & CEO, Rosenfeld Media

Thursday, February 22, 2024 • Rosenfeld Community

What's Next for ICs: Exploring Staff and Principal Designer Roles

Catt Small • Staff Product Designer at Dropbox and Author of The Staff Designer
Micah Bennett • Staff Product Designer, Figma
Brian Carr • Staff UX Designer
Jessica Harllee • Staff Product Designer

Thursday, January 11, 2024 • Rosenfeld Community

Coffee with Lou

Louis Rosenfeld • Founder, Publisher, & CEO, Rosenfeld Media

Friday, June 30, 2023 • Rosenfeld Community

What co-speech gestures reveal about users’ thinking during interviews

Dane DeSutter • Data Scientist, Catalyst Education
Stephanie Scopelitis • Learning Scientist, Consultant, Researcher

Friday, May 26, 2023 • Rosenfeld Community

Mixed Methods and Behavioural Science

Michael Weir • Head of Behavioural Science - Impression