40. User Experience Monday Munich

Dear wonderful UX community in Munich,

We’re excited to invite you to the 40th UX Monday!
This time, our host is EQS – we’ll be gathering in their beautiful office space right in the heart of Munich.
Join us to get inspired, exchange ideas, and connect with fellow UX enthusiasts. As always, there’ll be drinks and plenty of time for conversations and networking.
We’re really looking forward to seeing you there!

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Agenda:
18:45 | Event start with snacks, drinks and networking
19:10 | Short intro
19:20 | Design-to-Code: Building the Right Foundation for AI-Assisted Delivery
20:00 | 15 min. break
20:15 | The Big Idea of Big Ideas — Finding the Future We Need
21:00 | Time for networking and drinks ;)

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About the Talk - Design-to-Code: Building the Right Foundation for AI-Assisted Delivery
Let's be real, AI is moving incredibly fast, and while it's an exciting co-pilot for product development, it’s not magic. It needs good instructions and a solid foundation to actually be useful.

In this talk, we’ll take a grounded look at what it really takes to prep our design workflows for AI-assisted delivery, without getting entirely lost in the hype. We’ll explore how to conceptualize "machine-readable" design systems so AI actually understands your structure, preventing it from inventing new button styles every five minutes.

We will also discuss the reality of anchoring AI outputs to existing component libraries to maintain both brand consistency and your sanity.
From there, we'll break down the human-AI tag team to figure out where automation can genuinely do the heavy lifting, and where human common sense remains absolutely irreplaceable.
Finally, as AI design tools continue to evolve, we'll look at what's next: do we just need to become hyper-organized upstream, or is the fundamental way we design about to change entirely?

About the Speaker:
Rana Nawito is a UX/UI Designer based in Munich, currently working at Spark Reply to help shape the human side of artificial intelligence. Originally from Egypt, she made the move to Germany in 2018. With over six years of experience tackling B2B and B2C platforms, she specializes in taking dense, complicated data and turning it into intuitive, actionable interfaces.

When she isn't advocating for empathetic design at work, she is usually just trying to keep up with her two young boys. Ultimately, she is driven by the goal of making sure AI becomes a positive, supportive tool for our collective future, rather than an accidental disaster!

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About the Talk: The Big Idea of Big Ideas — Finding the Future We Need
What does a perfume bottle have to do with a car engine? How could a goldsmith invent the printing press?

In a world overflowing with knowledge, talent, and computing power, why
are so many of our innovations just slightly better versions of the
same old things? Addictive apps. Faster devices. More dopamine
triggers.

The real bottleneck isn’t intelligence or innovation, but
connection. Big ideas don’t emerge from relentless optimization or
isolated genius. They emerge when the right puzzle pieces finally fall
into place.

Drawing on unexpected historical twists, and stories from James Burke,
Doug Engelbart, and Alan Kay, I show how we can create the
infrastructure, tools, and spaces that allow ideas — partial insights,
experimental prototypes, and untapped knowledge — to find each other
and combine.

The future won’t be built by a single breakthrough, a single company,
or a single genius — it will be built when enough ideas can find each
other because the roads are in place to let them meet.

About the Speaker:
Daniel G. Siegel, independent consultant
Daniel G. Siegel is an independent consultant, founder of Big Idea Initiative, public speaker, private airplane pilot, and 2nd Dan black belt in Taekwondo. He helps companies and organizations that contribute to societal change through their strategy and website. Daniel is a passionate advocate for Free & Open Source software and believes technology should empower rather than replace human potential.

Daniel's expertise is built upon a strong foundation of computer science & psychology from the Technical University of Munich and years of experience as CTO of Not Just A Label, the world’s leading fashion platform. He further honed his skills at Accenture, developing digital strategies for Fortune 500 companies. As a sought-after speaker and the driving force behind Big Idea Initiative, Daniel is dedicated to fostering collaboration and sparking transformative ideas that benefit humanity.

We are looking forward to welcoming you.
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Cheers,
Evgeny, Andrea and Philipp