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Why You Will Not Be Replaced by AI

Vitaly Friedman
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Workshop includes:

  • 🔖 Actionable insights
  • 🍎 Reference examples
  • 🎤  Dedicated Q&A time

Free Workshop, 2h + Q&A • Wed, November 19, 2025
09:00 AM – 12:30 PM PT • 18:00 – 21:30 CET • Check your time zone ⏰

In this free workshop, Vitaly Friedman, will explore why human-centered design and engineering remain essential, where they can’t be replaced, and the skills you need to create AI experiences people understand, use, and love.

Here’s What You Should Be Expecting:

  • Interactive live session

    A free, 2.5h-long live session

  • Practical insights

    UX guidelines and design patterns

  • Do’s and Don’ts

    Good and not-so-good examples

  • Dedicated Q&A time

    To ask all your questions!

Free! Register for this workshop → 1 × 2.5h live session + Q&A. Nov 19.
With all video recordings & slides. Get a ticket.


Not a day passes by without somebody on the fringes of the Internet reminding us that we’ll soon be replaced, become irrelevant or will simply drown in a boundless stream of AI-generated content, design and code. The hype is high, the expectations are beyond limits and so is uncertainty and confusion about what’s coming up next.

In this free workshop, Vitaly Friedman, Smashing Magazine founder and UX lead for the European Parliament, will show why the good old-fashioned craft of design and engineering is so much needed. There are many AI tools which can help make our work better, but we need skills to use them. We’ll explore together how we can design truly remarkable experiences that people understand, that people use, that people value and perhaps even fall in love with.

What You’ll Walk Away With

  • Why your human touch in design and engineering is still irreplaceable.
  • How to create AI experiences that people actually understand, enjoy, and value.
  • Practical skills to turn AI hype into real, usable products.
  • Tips to stay relevant—and indispensable—no matter how fast AI evolves.
  • A clear sense of what matters most when designing for the AI era.

Who This Session Is For

This session is for product and interface designers, UX designers, front-end designers and developers who’d like to design truly remarkable AI experiences.

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About Vitaly Friedman

Vitaly Friedman loves beautiful content and doesn’t like to give in easily. When he is not writing, he’s most probably running front-end & UX workshops. He loves solving complex UX, front-end and performance problems. He also runs Smart Interface Design Patterns, a video course and live UX training for passionate UX and interface designers.

Free! Register for this workshop → 1 × 2.5h live session + Q&A. Nov 19.
With all video recordings & slides. Get a ticket.

What hardware/software do you need?

To view the webinars, please install the Zoom client for Meetings, which is available for all the main OSs. It may take a little time to download and install, so please grab it ahead of time if you can.

Schedule

8:45 AM PT
Virtual doors open, registration, chat and introductions.

9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
AI vs. Human Craft, Irreplaceable Skills, Usable Experiences, Valuable Products, Design Confidence and Future-Proofing.

12:00 PM – 12:30 PM
Q&A with Vitaly.

Free! Register for this workshop → 1 × 2.5h live session + Q&A. Nov 19.
With all video recordings & slides. Get a ticket.