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DesignSummit 2026
The product design conference for builders who ship.
Dates
2–3 July 2026
Venue
The Brooklyn Pavilion
Brooklyn, United States
Expected attendees
1,200+
About the conference
Two days of talks, workshops, and hallway conversations with the people shaping the next generation of product design.
Learn from people actually shipping
Dr. Amara Okafor
VP of Design, Lumen Health
Amara leads design at one of the fastest-growing digital health platforms in North America. Her talk explores how teams can hold craft and velocity in tension without compromising either.
Kenji Tanaka
Principal Designer, Figma
Kenji has spent a decade shipping design tooling used by millions of designers. He shares the principles behind building for a design-literate audience.
Priya Narang
Head of Research, Duolingo
Priya runs a 30-person research org at Duolingo, mixing quantitative rigour with ethnographic fieldwork across 40+ languages.
Marcus Holloway
Founder & CEO, Kindred Studio
Marcus founded Kindred, a design studio known for its work with consumer hardware startups. Expect honest stories about what actually works in early-stage product design.
Elena Vasquez
Staff Designer, Stripe
Elena works on Stripe's checkout and subscription surfaces. Her talk is a deep dive into designing for trust at global scale.
Dr. Nathaniel Brooks
Design Research Director, IDEO
Nathaniel has led human-centred design engagements across healthcare, fintech, and civic tech. His keynote reframes research as a strategic, not tactical, function.
Hana Kimura
Design Lead, Notion
Hana leads the design team behind Notion's AI features. She explores how designers can stay in the loop when the product is increasingly generative.
Two days, three tracks
Day 1
9:00 AM – 9:45 AM
Main Stage
Opening Keynote: Craft at Scale
How large design orgs protect craft without becoming slow. Lessons from shipping in regulated, consumer, and developer surfaces.
10:00 AM – 10:45 AM
Main Stage
Designing for Trust at Global Scale
Elena walks through the principles Stripe uses when designing surfaces that handle billions in payments across 47 countries.
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Studio B
Research as Strategy, Not Service
Why the best research orgs are structured around strategic bets, not Jira tickets. A workshop for research leads and the designers who work with them.
1:30 PM – 2:15 PM
Main Stage
Building Design Tools for Designers
A decade of lessons from shipping Figma. What breaks when your users are more design-literate than your team.
2:30 PM – 3:15 PM
Main Stage
When the Product Generates Itself
How Notion thinks about designer authorship in a product that writes, drafts, and builds on its own.
4:00 PM – 4:45 PM
Main Stage
Fireside: Consumer Hardware is Back
Marcus Holloway in conversation on the resurgence of consumer hardware and what it means for product designers.
Day 2
9:30 AM – 10:15 AM
Main Stage
Research Fieldwork Across 40 Languages
Priya shares how Duolingo runs research across linguistic and cultural contexts without flattening them.
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Studio A
AI-Assisted Design in Practice
A hands-on workshop where participants pair-design with AI tools and debrief what works and what doesn't.
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Main Stage
Closing Keynote: The Next Decade of Design
Where the practice is going, what stays the same, and what every designer should be investing in now.
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Pick your pass
Early Bird
Limited release — first 150 tickets only.
87 of 150 remaining
- Full 2-day access
- All sessions and workshops
- Lunch both days
- Evening networking reception
General Admission
Standard 2-day conference pass.
412 of 800 remaining
- Full 2-day access
- All sessions and workshops
- Lunch both days
- Evening networking reception
VIP Pass
Reserved seating, speaker dinner, and VIP lounge access.
34 of 80 remaining
- Everything in General Admission
- Reserved front-row seating
- Invite-only speaker dinner
- VIP lounge with espresso bar
- Printed programme + swag bag
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What past attendees say
"Hands down the most useful conference I attended last year. The hallway conversations alone paid for the ticket."
"Real talks from real practitioners. No vendor fluff, no recycled keynotes. I took home three ideas I shipped the week after."
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