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What It Actually Takes to Ship as a Designer

Hosted by Rupa Chaturvedi and David Eisner

Sat, Sep 26, 2026

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Master UX Design for AI - A Career Accelerator for AI Native Designers
Rupa Chaturvedi
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What you'll learn

The Line Between a Prototype and Shipped Code

See where an AI prototype stops and a shippable app starts: the data layer, security, the parts a prototype never shows.

Where Design Work Ends and Engineering Work Begins Now

Walk through where AI moved the line between design and engineering, and what's left of each job once code is cheap.

What's Left for a Design Lead Who Only Directs, Not Builds

See whether that kind of role still holds up once the people it directs can tell good work from bad on their own.

Why this topic matters

A designer with no engineering background can generate a working prototype in minutes. Getting it into production is a separate problem: real data, a security review, and an engineering team that has to maintain it. That gap is what this conversation works through, with Rupa Chaturvedi, founder of Human Centered AI Institute, and David Eisner, VP of Product Design at Datadog and a longtime practitioner and advocate for design engineering.

You'll learn from

Rupa Chaturvedi

AI Design Leader | x-Uber/Google/Amazon

Rupa Chaturvedi is a product design leader with 20 years of experience, including 12 years building AI products at Amazon (Alexa), Google, Uber, and startups.

She founded Human Centered AI Institute to help design teams and individual designers navigate the AI-led shift in the design industry. Through her courses — UX Design for AI, UX for Agentic AI, and Claude Code for Designers — and corporate training programs, she helps designers build confidence and credibility in AI product work, positioning design as a strategic contributor in AI product development.

Rupa holds an MS in Product Design from Stanford and 18+ patents in conversational AI, computer vision, and AR-enabled experiences. Her work centers on making AI products more human-centered through practical frameworks and application.

David Eisner

VP of Product Design, Datadog. Founder, CraftAmplify.

David Eisner is VP of Product Design at Datadog and founder of CraftAmplify, where he teaches designers to ship production-quality frontend code. He has spent more than 25 years leading design at companies including Amazon, Plated, and Huge. He is the author of the forthcoming Product Design Engineering for Designers, from Rosenfeld Media.

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