Designer's Role in the Agentic Era

📅 Date: Tuesday 31 March 2026
🕡 Time: 6:30–7:30pm GMT
📍 Location: Online - Zoom (link sent on registration)
💰 Price: Free to attend
⏱ Duration: 60 minutes

About This Session

AI is changing design jobs right now. Not in two years. Now.
Companies are hiring for roles that didn't exist 18 months ago. Job descriptions are full of terms most designers have never been taught. Agentic AI systems are being designed, deployed, and governed, and designers are largely absent from those conversations.

This session is an honest, career-level look at what is happening to the design profession right now. What the agentic era actually means for your role, your skills, your salary, and your seat at the table.

No hype. No speculation. A clear picture of where the industry is, where it is going, and exactly what you need to do to stay ahead of it.

What We'll Cover

• Where design jobs are going
What is actually being hired for right now - the new roles, the new titles, the skills companies are paying for that most designers don't have yet. And the roles that are quietly disappearing.

• What the agentic era actually means for designers
Agentic AI systems act autonomously - they don't wait for a user to click. That changes everything about what design means. We will explain this clearly and without jargon, so you understand exactly what has shifted and why it matters for your career.

• The skills gap - how wide it actually is
An honest assessment of where your current UX skills transfer directly, where they need extending, and what genuinely new capabilities the agentic era requires. While most designers are closer than they think, there are specific gaps that matter.

• The vocabulary you need right now
Failure choreography. Containment design. Approval gates. Accountability mapping. These are the terms appearing in job descriptions, product team conversations, and AI governance frameworks. We will translate every one of them into plain design language.

• A clear roadmap of what to learn next
Not a reading list. A practical, sequenced roadmap of exactly what to learn, in what order, to make yourself genuinely hireable in the agentic AI design space within the next 6 months.

What You'll Leave With

• A clear picture of where design jobs are going and what is actually being hired for right now
• An honest skills gap analysis - what you already have, what you need to build
• The core vocabulary of agentic design - translated into plain language
• A sequenced learning roadmap for the next 6 months

Who is This For
UX designers, product designers, service designers, and design leads who can feel the industry shifting and want a clear, honest answer to the question: where do I fit in all of this, and what do I do next?

About the Host
Gabriela Statie is a designer and researcher working at the intersection of AI systems and human-centred design. She is the founder of the Agentic Design Community - a curriculum and community for designers making the transition into agentic AI systems design.

Free to attend. Register your place above. Zoom link sent on registration.