I love what I do, period. I mentor, teach, and lead, but I stay close to the work — from research and problem framing to execution and delivery. I keep up with modern UX and AI tools, but I’m intentional about how and when I use them, knowing that the right choice isn’t always the newest one. For me, impact comes from good judgment, clear collaboration, and using tools in ways that realistically work for teams — not forcing them where they don’t fit.
Upcoming Talks
11 May 2026
Design within teams is hard: constraints, shifting scope, busy stakeholders, and a calendar that does not care about your ideal process. In this workshop, Evan takes a “real-world design operating system” and gives a practical method for a human-first, AI-accelerated feedback loop using AI personas.
You will start with real human input, then build a lightweight synthetic user based on that context, run live design feedback against it, and compare the synthetic output to the human response to spot where it aligns, where it diverges, and where it is just confidently wrong. The goal is not to replace research. It is building a faster decision-making workflow that helps small or stretched teams test, refine and communicate clearly with PMs and stakeholders.
Practical, realistic and intentionally un-hypey. Augment, do not abdicate.
What you’ll walk away with:
- A step-by-step synthetic user workflow to capture real stakeholder input, turn it into an agent, and use it to speed up iteration without pretending it is “real users.”
- How to configure an AI persona through better setup and prompts: define the right context and boundaries, then generate critique that flags clarity vs friction (less garbage, more signal).
- A simple validation loop: how to compare AI feedback to human feedback, spot hallucinations and overconfidence, and use the overlap to prioritise what to fix next.
- Faster collaboration with PMs and reduce reruns: How to use the loop to show progress, iterate live, and communicate decisions in outcome language that builds trust across product, design and engineering.
Past Talks
UXDX Community: AI Speed, Real World Design 2026
27 January 2026
LinkedIn posts and perfect case studies are great for inspiration — but let’s be real, they only show half the story. In this session, we’re skipping the performative stuff and diving into what product design actually looks like in the real world: how to turn messy problems into tangible workflows, collaborate with PMs in business language they understand, and craft solutions that actually solve user and stakeholder needs. We’ll also tackle the AI hype — how to be smart about what tools to adopt, when to use them, and how to integrate them into your workflow without overcomplicating things. Practical, actionable, and a little unfiltered — from screens to strategy, this is about making design matter in every part of the process.