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ÌníOlúwa Abíódún
Senior product designer, Intercom, and founder, Aivie
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25-MINUTE TALK
Staying human, strategic, and sane in the AI goldrush
AI is reshaping design at a dizzying pace. New tools promise speed and precision, but they also change the nature of our roles—as well as how teams relate, make decisions, and build trust.
The ability to experiment and make meaning with AI is fast becoming a new baseline for design practice. Beneath the tooling and the hype, the work that holds teams together is emotional literacy, curiosity, and strategic translation.
The kind of pre-work that keeps design human.
Together, we will explore how influence, leadership, and collaboration have been rewired inside modern teams. We’ll examine how the work beneath the work—listening, translating, aligning, questioning, both between humans as well as between humans and machines—is what will allow new technology to create genuine progress.
The future of design won’t belong to the fastest teams, but to the ones who move together, guided by curiosity, even as the world around them accelerates.
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ÌníOlúwa Abíódún is a lawyer-turned-product designer working at the intersection of design, growth, and AI. She leads growth and web initiatives at Intercom, shaping how teams design, experiment, and communicate in the age of intelligent tools.
A seasoned speaker, ÌníOlúwa has delivered talks and workshops at UX London, Product Design Week, and Ladies That UX, exploring creativity and leadership in an automation era.
She also runs In Good Company, a newsletter and creative lab where she shares AI and design experiments and reflections on the future of creative work. She co-hosts the Growth Design Podcast with design leaders from Adobe, Miro, and Flodesk.