How AI is Moving Design Into the Frontend (rescheduled)

Courtney Kyle is coming to Sheffield Hallam University on Thursday 29 October to talk about how AI is shifting the boundary between design and engineering. She's from Pendo, and the session is hosted by Front End Sheffield, the local meetup for web designers and developers. It was originally planned for June but got pushed back because of the heatwave, so this is the rescheduled date.

Kyle's talk focuses on how her team moved away from the traditional static Figma handoff. Instead, they've adopted a two-track workflow: fast, vibe-coded exploration on one side, and real branches and pull requests in the frontend repo on the other, with a deliberate translation step in between. She frames design systems as more critical and more machine-readable than ever as AI joins the team, and she'll be sharing honest stories from a workflow that's still very much in flight, along with practical patterns for bringing AI into the place where design and front-end code actually meet.

Front End Sheffield is a local meetup for web designers and developers run by a small nonprofit group of practitioners, and it's grown to over 1,500 members. Kyle is the main feature of the night, with a second talk still to be announced. The session is free, and doors open at 6:15pm at Room 942, Owen Building, Sheffield Hallam University, City Campus, Howard Street, Sheffield S1 1WB.