Nobody told me UX and Product were supposed to fight.
I figured it out the hard way. A designer on one side, a PM on the other, both convinced they were right, both working toward the same goal, somehow making each other’s lives harder every single day. — Yao A.
If you’ve been there, you know exactly what I’m talking about.
The thing is, nobody sits down and decides to make collaboration difficult. It just happens. Priorities drift. Communication gets lazy. Someone stops being included in a meeting they should have been in. Before you know it, you’re shipping things that feel off and nobody can quite explain why.
The teams that figure this out don’t have a secret. They just have better habits, better language, and usually someone who’s been through it enough times to know where things go wrong before they go wrong.
That’s exactly who is showing up on Tomorrow March 5th.
Who’s in the Room
Ivan Carter has been designing for over 20 years.
Leo Hoar left academia to build something that would actually help UX researchers get their work taken seriously.
Tad Marsili has spent 15 years in rooms where design either shapes the strategy or gets ignored, and she knows the difference between the two.
Caitlin Cooper has led cross functional teams through the kind of complex product decisions that most people avoid talking about honestly.
Teyibo founded Analog Teams and Guardian AI and co-chairs UXCON, and he thinks about design and product collaboration at a scale most of us haven’t considered yet.
Five people. One room. One honest conversation about what it actually takes to make UX and Product work well together.
This is the kind of evening where someone says the thing you’ve been thinking but never said out loud in a professional setting, and the whole room quietly exhales.
Come if you work in UX. Come if you work in Product. Come if you manage people who do either of those things and you’re tired of watching them misunderstand each other. Come if you just want to be in a room full of people who take this work seriously.
It’s FREE. It’s in Silver Spring. And it’s the kind of evening you’ll still be thinking about two weeks later.
This Thursday March 5, 6 to 9 PM EST Silver Spring Civic Building at Veterans Plaza 1 Veterans Pl, Silver Spring, MD
We’ll see you there.
