UX Beers Antwerp June @ Craftzing

Welcome to our June UX Beers in Antwerp!
This time, we will host our event on Tuesday the 30th of June at Craftzing in Antwerp.
Ariad and Creative Skills sponsor our events.
Follow the event online? We stream live via Youtube

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### UX TALKS

Talk 1: UX with AI: Did we all just get promoted?
By An-Sofie Rombouts, Product designer @ Gorilla

Working in a startup often means designing without established UX processes. So with AI emerging, it can feel like a lifeline: faster prototyping, 'deeper' research, and more concepts to explore. But somewhere between the third AI-generated prototype and losing the thread of your prompted designs, it can become painfully obvious what the impact is of designing with LLMs.

We're not executing anymore, we're reviewing, approving, and critiquing, like a manager.

This talk gets honest about what that actually means: the speed gains are real, but the cognitive debt is quietly compounding, and your future as a designer depends on understanding why.

Explore how designers can protect their cognitive depth, enhance their review capacity, and stay in control when the machine can almost draw anything.

Talk 2: Growing UX in organisations that are not there yet.
By Koen Peters, Designer at Namahn
More and more organisations are asking us to help build design expertise in-house, even putting together a design team for them. I have learnt that in such cases, you need to set aside your own biases and assumptions first: your neatly mapped-out methodology, your Figma dogmas and all the other things you as a design agency take for granted. The reality in these organisations is often very different: limited resources, no design culture and few or no trained designers on the team. Through a few client case studies, I will show how we have tackled such challenges. Organising a training in UX and design thinking is a good first step, offering a chance to get to know the team and identify which skills are already there and which are missing. I will also demonstrate tools and activities that we have used to help a team get started and become more aware of UX research and design. These include a script for choosing the right UX approach, skills assessment models to identify gaps and first steps towards creating a design playbook.

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### SCHEDULE
18:00 - Doors open. Drinks & snacks
19.00 - 19.15 - Introduction to UX Belgium Meetup, announcements
19.15 - 19:45 - Talk #1
19:45 -20:15 - BREAK
20:15 - 20:45 - Talk #2
20:45 - 21:30 - Socialize

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### SLACK CHANNEL
We have our own UX Belgium slack channel.
Come join us and say hi!
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### YOUTUBE CHANNEL
All our livestreams and talks are recorded and available on our UX Belgium youtube channel.

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### ABOUT UX BELGIUM
UX Belgium is a growing community of User Experience (UX) professionals in and around Belgium.
Look for these types of events:

UX Beers
Periodically, we gather at a different agency or venue to drink beers, network and listen to speakers on various themes in the world of UX and digital design.
UX Antwerp: Each last Tuesday of the month
UX Brussels: Each second Tuesday of the month, 4x per year

UX Workshops
Now and then we organize events to dive deeper into specific skills and techniques in UX. These are smaller, hands-on workshops designed to boost your UX toolbox.
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The UX Belgium Meetup Team