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John Maeda | Design in Tech Report – Design trends revolutionizing the entrepreneurial and corporate ecosystems in tech. Related M&A activity, new patterns in creativity × business, and the rise of computational design.

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Design trends revolutionizing the entrepreneurial and corporate ecosystems in tech. Related M&A activity, new patterns in creativity × business, and the rise of computational design. Coming soon … Submission Proposal: UX to AX: Staying User-Centric As We Shift To Agents Audience: UX, UXR, and Product professionals adapting to AI-driven role changes and the shift toward agent-led experiences. Description: Designers make screens/flows for stakeholders to review, for users to test, and for many teams to adjust until everything matches the brand. But as AI acts on human intent directly, we’ll be designing for agents. Not users. Grounded in research, this talk explores the shift to Agentic Experience (AX), moving from crafting interfaces to orchestrating outcomes with zero visual affordances. Early-career designers will snap to this new reality, late-stage folks get to skip it, but mid-career Product people have the most to lose and need to redesign themselves for the AX era. Targeted Takea

Silicon Valley design guru John Maeda distinguishes between three categories: “classical” designers, who create physical objects or products; “commercial” designers who innovate by seeking deep insights into how customers interact with products and services; and “computational” designers, who use programming skills and data to satisfy millions or even billions of users instantaneously. —Clay Chandler on the Design in Tech Report SXSW 2026: UX to AX If you have a personal Anthropic or OpenAI key, you can try out the apps I made for the report. Your key isn’t stored in local storage by…

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