Adam Cutler

Adam Cutler — Chief Product Officer at Bast AI. Talks and sessions delivered at UXDX.

Adam Cutler

Chief Product Officer

Adam Cutler is the Chief Product Officer at Bast.ai and a founding member of IBM Design, recognised as one of IBM’s first three Distinguished Designers. He built IBM’s flagship Design Studio in Austin and helped shape the discipline at scale through IBM Design Thinking, the IBM Design Language, and IBM Design Research. Today he focuses on AI design and meaningful human machine relationships, sharing that perspective in his TED talk.

Past talks

1 talk · 1 event

2026

UXDX Community: Austin: Hi, How Are You Iterating?Mar 2026

Forum

Forum - The State of Change

After the talk, Kayleigh is joined on stage by Josh, Daniel, and Adam for a forum-style discussion where the room can steer. Bring your questions and strong opinions on how teams are iterating right now, what is genuinely speeding work up, where AI introduces risk or noise, and how roles and collaboration patterns are shifting as design, product, and engineering blur. Expect a candid, real-world conversation focused on techniques you can try, not theory.