Skip to main content

Designing Complex UIs in the Age of AI (Without Making Them Worse)

Vitaly Friedman

Your instructor
Vitaly Friedman

Workshop includes:

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

Free Workshop, 1.5h + Q&A • Thu, June 11, 2026
9:00 – 10:30 AM PDT • 18:00 – 19:30 CEST • Check your time zone ⏰

Complex products don’t have to be complicated. In this free session, Vitaly Friedman explores how to shape UX for enterprise software, B2B systems and legacy-heavy environments — and what it takes to make AI work well.

Here’s What You Should Be Expecting:

  • Interactive live session

    A free, 1.5h-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!


This free session is a taster for Design Patterns For AI Interfaces — Vitaly’s full 5-session workshop. You’ll go from the ideas introduced here to building a complete toolkit of AI design patterns: daemons, style lenses, clustering, dynamic editing, temperature knobs and everything in between — with 100s of real-life examples from complex, real-world products.

Complex products don’t have to be complicated. As designers, we need to shape UX to maximise clarity and reduce confusion — especially when designing for legacy-ridden environments, B2B systems, enterprise software and complex domains.

But how do we do that in times of AI, when business expectations are high, users are sceptical and the bottleneck is decision-making, not delivery? This requires a healthy dose of context engineering, an AI-ready design system and a solid decision infrastructure — but also figuring out how to design for trust and confidence.

Making AI work well in complex products is much harder than one might think — and if not done right, people become inventive with all kinds of shortcuts to avoid AI features altogether. We’ll look at how to change that, and what it requires, with case studies from companies navigating exactly these challenges in messy, complex, real-world environments.

In this session, Vitaly Friedman, UX lead and senior advisor working with the European Parliament and AI companies around the world, will explore just that.

Who Is This For

This session is for product and interface designers, UX leads and front-end developers working on complex products — enterprise software, B2B platforms, legacy systems, or any environment where clarity is hard-won and decisions move slowly.

Topple is feeling very festive

Oh, and as a little bonus — you'll also get our Smashing events newsletter: free sessions, online workshops and live conferences from around the world. The good stuff, straight to your inbox. 🐱

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.

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 PDT
Virtual doors open, registration, chat and introductions.

9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Context Engineering, AI-Ready Design Systems, Decision Infrastructure, Designing for Trust and Complex UI Case Studies.

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM
Q&Awith Vitaly.