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Design Evenings NYC: The Real Role of AI in UX

This session featured Erin Essex, Senior Interaction Designer at Google, who unpacked how AI was reshaping the design process, exploring smarter ideation tools, rapid prototyping platforms, and how designers could embrace AI as a collaborator while keeping empathy, storytelling, and craft at the core of their work.

  • BrainStation New York
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  • Oct 22, 2025
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  • Erin Essex

    Erin Essex

    Senior Interaction Designer

Erin Essex

Senior Interaction Designer

Google

In this session, Erin Essex, Senior Interaction Designer at Google, examined how AI was transforming the UX process, highlighting how designers could use emerging tools to enhance creativity, efficiency, and empathy while navigating the real-world limitations and ethical challenges of AI-driven design.

 

  • Erin Essex

    Erin Essex

    Senior Interaction Designer

    Erin is a Senior Interaction Designer at Google, where she focuses on the YouTube creator experience. She previously worked on the Google Ads team, designing AI- and machine learning–powered tools that help users partner with technology in ways that build trust and efficiency. With a background in psychology and experience across agencies, startups, and companies like Shutterstock and MongoDB, where she served as Director of Product Design, Erin brings a uniquely human-centered approach to her work. Her design philosophy is rooted in empathy and behavior, creating experiences that are functional, meaningful, and enjoyable across a wide range of products.

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  • 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM EST
  • 136 Crosby St, 4th Floor, New York City, NY
  • $45
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Join Mareike Carolin Keller, Product Designer at Spotify, for an inside look of her experience evolving the platform from a music app into a multi-format destination for audio storytelling at Spotify.

  • 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM EST
  • 136 Crosby St, 4th Floor, New York City, NY
  • $45
Mareike Carolin Keller

Mareike Carolin Keller

Product Designer

Discussion Topics:

  • Designing for Discovery at Scale
  • Building a Unified Design System
  • Evolving the Creative Ecosystem
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Jan 22

Leaders in Design

How Innovation, AI, and Experience Are Redefining FinTech

Join us in New York for an inside look at how design leaders are building the future of fintech.

  • 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM EST
  • 136 Crosby St, 4th Floor, New York City, NY
  • $45
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Eden Robbins

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Discussion Topics:

  • Reinventing the Banking Experience
  • Personalization and AI in FinTech
  • The Future of Digital Payments
Jan 22
Leaders in Design How Innovation, AI, and Experience Are Redefining FinTech

Join us in New York for an inside look at how design leaders are building the future of fintech.

  • 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM EST
  • 136 Crosby St, 4th Floor, New York City, NY
  • $45
Eden Robbins

Eden Robbins

Director of Product Design

Discussion Topics:

  • Reinventing the Banking Experience
  • Personalization and AI in FinTech
  • The Future of Digital Payments
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Jan 29

Product Evenings NYC

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Join Natalie Novak, Vice President of Product Strategy & Service Design at JPMorganChase, for a deep dive into how futures thinking is transforming the way products are imagined, built, and scaled.

  • 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM EST
  • 136 Crosby St, 4th Floor, New York City, NY
  • $45
Natalie Novak

Natalie Novak

Futurist and Product Leader

Discussion Topics:

  • Futures & Foresight: The Method Behind the Mindset
  • The Future of Payments: A Trend Report Live
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Jan 29
Product Evenings NYC Building What’s Next Through Futures & Foresight

Join Natalie Novak, Vice President of Product Strategy & Service Design at JPMorganChase, for a deep dive into how futures thinking is transforming the way products are imagined, built, and scaled.

  • 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM EST
  • 136 Crosby St, 4th Floor, New York City, NY
  • $45
Natalie Novak

Natalie Novak

Futurist and Product Leader

Discussion Topics:

  • Futures & Foresight: The Method Behind the Mindset
  • The Future of Payments: A Trend Report Live
  • Reverse Engineering Foresight: How the Report Was Made
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