📅 Friday, August 28, 2026
🕒 5:30–8:30 PM PT (doors open at 5:30)
📍San Francisco, CA — SoMa, near Salesforce Tower (exact address sent to registered guests)
IxDF San Francisco is teaming up with Tin Computer and Cepien AI for a night built around vibe coding: a talk, a live hackathon, and food, drinks, and prizes.
Our guest speaker is Feridoon "Doon" Malekzadeh, Senior UX Strategist for AI and Agentic Experiences at ServiceNow.
Feridoon "Doon" Malekzadeh is a product design executive, creative technologist, and lifelong tinkerer with more than 20 years of experience turning ideas into products. Today, he leads AI and agentic experience strategy for ServiceNow's Digital Technology design team.
Vibe coding has brought Doon closer to what he loves most: building. As a Lovable Ambassador and Platinum-tier user, he explores how designers can use AI to move from idea to working product with unprecedented speed, without sacrificing curiosity, craft, or care. He has built and shipped AI experiences used by more than 60,000 people.
Doon will talk through:
How he became a Lovable Ambassador
Some of the projects he's worked on
How to go about building a vibe coding product that's actually useful
What he's learned from the projects he's built
10 builders. One room. Everyone watching.
We’re putting 10 creators in the seat to design and vibe code live on the floor. If you want to show what you can build when the pressure is on and the vibes are flowing, the form is your way in.
Prefer the front-row view? Come grab a drink, load up on food, catch the talk, and cheer on your fellow designers and builders while the magic unfolds live.
👉 [Claim Your Builder Seat]
What to expect from this event:
A talk from Doon on building real products with AI and vibe coding
A live hackathon: 10 participants build in real time
Food and drinks
Prizes
Networking with fellow designers, PMs, researchers, and builders
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In collaboration with
Tin Computer — an AI growth agent that autonomously optimizes SaaS products, diagnosing issues, shipping experiments, and measuring results across websites, SEO, analytics, and product development. (tin.computer)
Cepien AI — a product intelligence platform that turns customer feedback, user behavior, and business signals into one shared source of truth for product teams. (cepien.ai)
About IxDF
The Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF) is a global design education community founded in 2002, with more than 1.1 million members across 106 countries. Courses and certifications are taught by working practitioners from companies like Google, NASA, and Adobe, and the platform holds a 4.9 rating on Google.
IxDF San Francisco is one of 496+ local groups worldwide. We host meetups like this one to bring that community together in person.
Curious what IxDF could do for your career? Start here
Presentation with Q&A
Attendance is free.
No IxDF membership required.
Meet people who love design as much as you do. Together we learn new skills, grow our networks, and discover new job opportunities.
Join us to make lifelong friendships over coffee and a shared love of design! ❤️
San Francisco, United States
Elijah Leano
UX Researcher
San Francisco, United States
Pooja Vijay Kumar
Content Design Leadership
An IxDF Local Group connects you with people in your city who are building and applying design skills in their work. Together, you'll strengthen your craft, expand your network, and put theory into practice.
IxDF Local Groups meet regularly in person at cafés, company offices, or creative spaces to share ideas, give feedback, run workshops, and learn from each other. Many groups also organize IxDF Design Dinners, where the conversation goes deeper over a meal. These aren't just social events. Members find collaborators, clients, job leads, and future teammates through them.
You'll also have access to a private online forum where you can get career advice, honest feedback, and support from people who understand the work.
You don't need to have a "designer" title to join. If you care about how design shapes products, careers, and organizations, you belong here.
Join and you'll discover new skills, explore job opportunities, and build relationships with people who understand the power of great design.
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Your IxDF Local Leader organizes meetups based on what members want most. Sessions range from hands-on and structured to relaxed and informal.
Some examples of what you'll find:
Presentations from local designers, followed by Q&A
Lightning talks where members share lessons learned from real projects
Workshops where you work through a real design challenge together
Portfolio reviews where you get honest, practical feedback
Coffee meetups and design dinners with open conversations about where the industry is heading
Any member can propose, organize and post a meetup. You don't have to wait for your Local Leader to take the initiative.
What stays consistent is the people. You'll find designers and professionals who ask good questions, share what they know, and show up for each other between meetups too.
Yes, absolutely!
Design skills make you more effective in any role. Product managers, developers, marketers, researchers, and founders all work better when they understand how to think like a designer.
IxDF Local Groups reflect that. Members come from all kinds of professional backgrounds, not just design. What they share is an interest in how design shapes products, decisions, and careers.
You'll fit right in regardless of your background.
You don’t need to be a designer to have a seat at the table. IxDF Pune
Curiosity and good coffee are the only requirements. IxDF Santo Domingo
From designers to business thinkers, every voice adds value. IxDF Bordeaux
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Everyone here learns from each other and grows together. IxDF Salvador
In a world that's getting more artificial and competitive, IxDF brings the heart back, so you never have to face the job market alone.
Learn together, get mentored, find your next job, and build friendships that grow your career.
