UXDX Community:Amsterdam

A short welcome and introduction to the afternoon from the UXDX Amsterdam community team.

One of the trickier skills to master in UX research is stakeholder management. In this engaging talk, Alli draws parallels with characters from The Office to explore different stakeholder personalities, motivations and communication styles. She shares practical ways to adapt your approach, build trust and turn a daunting part of research into stronger collaboration and more effective decisions.

Moving from individual contributor to manager can create an uncomfortable question: if you are no longer producing the designs, where does your value come from? Slava shares the fears and mindset shifts that accompanied his own transition, then explores practical ways design leaders can improve team performance, consistency, knowledge-sharing and strategic direction without taking the work back from their teams.

Benjamin Lipinski and Ilya Maximov debate what it takes to build products in the age of AI, examining how product strategy, design practice and technical execution are changing as AI becomes part of both the product and the way teams work.

The fastest-growing user of your product is an agent. That changes what design is and who you need on the team. Menno shares a field report on moving an experience team across UX, developer and product experience into Agentic Experience as a first-class discipline, and explains why adaptability and continuous training matter more than one-off courses when the ground keeps moving.

In this hands-on workshop, Sid van Wijk guides participants from scattered survey input to a tangible prototype in 45 minutes, using collaborative techniques in Miro to turn raw feedback into shared understanding and rapid action.

A short wrap-up of the afternoon and an invitation to continue the discussion during networking and drinks.

Continue the conversations with speakers and peers over drinks.