This crowd favorite is back and better than ever! Don’t miss this fun-filled, action-packed, highly educational, and mind-blowing session where each of our instructors will have just three minutes to share their favorite AI tip for design—then you get to vote for your favorite!
In past years, some of the best tips have been held for this session, so you don’t want to miss it!
Step away from your screens in this hands-on workshop where you’ll learn to turn sheets of paper, napkins, newspapers, playing cards, and more into clever puzzles, addictive toys, and delightful magic tricks that spark conversation and connection.
This is a lively, approachable session ideal for professional development, creative warm-ups, and team collaboration—no special skills required. You’ll discover simple creations to break the ice with colleagues, entertain kids, and even score free drinks at the bar.
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AI shows up everywhere in creative workflows today—and sometimes it’s helpful, sometimes it’s distracting, and very often it’s misunderstood. For designers juggling many tools, projects, and expectations, the real question isn’t whether to use AI, but how to use it without losing your human judgment, authorship, and creative intent.
In this session, Michael Flarup shares a grounded, designer-first perspective on working with AI as part of a broader creative practice. Drawing from real projects, he explores where AI can support ideation, exploration, and momentum—and where human taste, decision-making, and craft still matter most. This is not a pitch for automation or replacement. It’s a practical look at using AI selectively and critically, alongside familiar design tools, to enhance creative thinking rather than shortcut it.
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Join us for this fun, live recording of the CreativePro Podcast, in a special crossover episode with the Chaxchat, the #1 accessibility podcast. If you’re new to accessibility and don’t know where to start, you just found the perfect session!
Ever feel overwhelmed by your own documentation? Even content you created yourself can take hours—or days—to review when you’re managing hundreds of pages. This session cuts through the noise to show you a practical, safe approach to AI integration using Adobe Acrobat Studio’s AI Assistant. Discover how to leverage AI as your productivity ally—not a replacement—by working exclusively with your own trusted data.
Nicte shows how her team transformed a real-world project involving 200+ pages of PDF documentation, landing page content, and social copy into actionable insights and deliverables that extract key summaries, data (with reference pages), and insights faster than you could possibly read through it all yourself.
You will learn how to:
Now that you have started adopting AI tools into your creative production workflows—generating images or ideating concepts—let’s take it one step further. In this session you’ll begin building your first applications with vibe code environments. We’ll look at some of the options available to you and how to customize your applications by choosing models and cloud API services In the end you’ll better understand how to get started with building a first tool or design assistant for your projects.
Even better, because you are a designer and not a software engineer, you know how to articulate things better than your clients do. You have what it takes to start vibe coding: strong communication skills.
Guillermo Flores Pacheco pulls back the curtain on what it really takes to turn a global creative brief into an iconic visual seen by millions. This keynote presents a real-world case study following the creative journey behind the Photoshop 2025 splash screen—from early notes and visual exploration through collaboration, revision, and final execution.
See how a brief is interpreted beyond surface requirements to uncover meaning, narrative, and opportunity. Explore how ideas evolve through feedback, constraints, and strategic decision-making, while still preserving a clear creative voice.
This session offers a grounded, behind-the-scenes look at how world-class creative work is built through thinking, process, collaboration, and craft.
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In a world of polished presets and AI-generated perfection, creating with your human hands is more powerful and important than ever. This session invites digital designers to step away from the screen and rediscover the creative power of analog processes. You’ll see how rolling up your sleeves and letting go of your mouse can not only enhance your professional digital projects, it can also nourish your mind and soul. Whether you’re feeling creatively stuck or just craving something more “human” in your designs, this session will help you reconnect with the joy of making—so you can bring that energy back to your digital projects.
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Follow along in a creative exploration of identity, transformation, and visual storytelling. In this session, Guillermo invites you into his collage-driven process, blending analog techniques with digital tools to rethink how images, portraits, and surfaces can evolve.
You’ll see how cutting, layering, drawing, and texture reshape an image, then how those ideas translate into a digital workflow using Photoshop and AI-assisted experimentation.
Expect inspiration, process insights, and permission to play. You’ll leave with fresh ways of thinking about collage, identity, and transformation—plus ideas you can adapt and explore further in your own professional work.
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Color choices affect far more than aesthetics. They shape readability, clarity, hierarchy, and whether people can actually use what you design. In this session, Dax Castro shows how to make smarter, more intentional color decisions that support accessibility without flattening creativity or forcing dull, “safe” palettes.
This session focuses on building awareness and confidence—so your color choices work for more people, more of the time.
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