UX

All sessions in the UX track, grouped by day.

Thursday, July 2

08:30 – 10:00
Registration & coffee

☀️Registration starting from 8:30h

= Participants: Please register at one of the three registration lines, based on the first letter of your last name.

= Speakers & Companions: Please use the separate registration desk on the left.

📍Location: Pool level, Hotel Ambasador.

You received an email with a QR code, so please have it ready for registration.

Stick around for a short welcome speech by the pool just before the program starts. After the opening, make sure you find your seat in the correct room.

Micaela Dixon
UX
10:00 – 13:00
AI Growth Design: Designing the First Five Minutes
Micaela Dixon
Half-day workshop · 3 hours (with coffee break)

Participants analyze and redesign AI activation flows to resolve user friction and build trust. Working in pairs, attendees apply agentic product frameworks to audit existing journeys and sketch improved first-run experiences ready for testing.

About the speaker

Micaela Dixon — Sr. Product Designer, AI & Growth @ Picsart

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11:15 – 11:45
Coffee break
13:00 – 14:15
Lunch
Reception level

at Hotel Ambasador restaurant

Rinaldo Ugrina
UX
14:15 – 17:15
How to Drive Decisions and Influence Outcomes
Rinaldo Ugrina
Half-day workshop · 3 hours (with coffee break)

This session teaches strategic communication frameworks to transform technical insights into persuasive narratives that secure stakeholder buy-in. Drawing from experience at major tech companies, the presentation provides practical tools for aligning proposals with leadership priorities and driving decisive business actions.

About the speaker

Rinaldo Ugrina — UX & Product Strategist @ Baymard Institute

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15:30 – 16:00
Coffee break
19:30 – 21:30
Wine & pasta hangout

at Garden Grill "Hortenzija"

Friday, July 3

Marija Filipović
UX
10:00 – 13:00
From Idea to Product, and Beyond
Marija Filipović
Half-day workshop · 3 hours (with coffee break)

Participants will learn to use Lovable and AI tools to transform product ideas into functional MVPs through a hands-on building process. This practical workshop requires no prior coding experience, but attendees must bring a laptop to participate in the real-time development session.

About the speaker

Marija Filipović — Product & Growth Advisor @ Buildthat.tech & Ambassador @ Lovable

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11:15 – 11:45
Coffee break
13:00 – 14:15
Lunch
Reception level

at Hotel Ambasador restaurant

Lorenzo Satta Chiris
UX
14:15 – 17:15
Designing Human–AI Interactions: The UX/UI of the Future
Lorenzo Satta Chiris
Half-day workshop · 3 hours (with coffee break)

UX design must shift from static interfaces to dynamic models that support autonomous AI agency, transparency, and collaborative workflows. Developers can implement these emerging patterns using practical frameworks for proactive agents and safety-centered feedback loops to build next-generation applications.

About the speaker

Lorenzo Satta Chiris — Director @ Excode

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15:30 – 16:00
Coffee break
19:30 – 21:30
Beer & BBQ hangout

at Garden Grill "Hortenzija"

Saturday, July 4

08:00 – 08:30
Morning swim in the sea

meet at the Hotel Ambasador pool

Chris Callaghan
UX
10:00 – 13:00
Beyond the Build: From Crafting at Speed to Crafting a Product
Chris Callaghan
Half-day workshop · 3 hours (with coffee break)

Participants take a simple product concept and uncover the hidden decisions, systems, and dependency chains around it, from acquisition and onboarding to analytics, feedback loops, and operations. Working in small groups with provided templates and scenarios, attendees leave with a practical framework for thinking beyond features and interfaces to what it really takes to turn working software into a product people can discover, adopt, and value.

About the speaker

Chris Callaghan - Experience Director @ Jaywing & Guest Instructor @ NN/G

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11:15 – 11:45
Coffee break
13:00 – 14:15
Lunch
Reception level

at Hotel Ambasador restaurant

Rinaldo Ugrina
UXPM
14:15 – 14:50
3 Key Findings from Testing the World's Leading Checkout Flows
Rinaldo Ugrina
Talk · 35 minutes

Baymard's research reveals that the average checkout utilizes 11.2 form fields despite the potential to reduce this number by 20–60%. This presentation details three key strategies for optimizing checkout flows to minimize user effort and decrease abandonment rates.

About the speaker

Rinaldo Ugrina — UX & Product Strategist @ Baymard Institute

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Marija Filipović
UXPM
14:50 – 15:30
Vibe Coding in the Wild
Marija Filipović
Talk · 35 minutes

Teams now utilize Lovable for rapid prototyping and tool development while delegating persistent technical debt to Claude. This integration allows employees to focus on core strengths through practical, real-world applications instead of theoretical concepts.

About the speaker

Marija Filipović — Product & Growth Advisor @ Buildthat.tech & Ambassador @ Lovable

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15:30 – 16:00
Coffee break
Marko Dabrović
All tracks
16:00 – 17:00
Keynote: Efficiency in Architecture
Marko Dabrović
Keynote · 40 min

Delivered by an architect, this keynote tackles challenges every team knows: time as the only real resource, the balance of billable and non-billable hours, and which processes can run in parallel. It offers an outside perspective from a discipline that has faced these same constraints for decades, with lessons that reach far beyond architecture.

About the speaker

Marko Dabrović - Partner, architect @ 3LHD

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19:30 – 23:30
Dinner & final party
Yacht Club Opatija

at Yacht Club