OCXD Halloween Meetup: Design Your Worst Nightmare 👻

What happens when designers intentionally create a terrible experience?

Join OCXD for a Halloween-themed evening where we'll explore modern AI and product design best practices by doing the exact opposite.

Time Change: For our regular folks, we're starting a bit earlier at 6:00 p.m. Please make a note of this new time.

Together, we'll tackle a fun design challenge: creating the most horrifying, frustrating, confusing, and delightfully awful user experience imaginable. Whether it's an AI assistant that misunderstands everything, a checkout flow designed to induce panic, or a product experience from your darkest UX nightmares, we'll embrace the chaos.

Then we'll dissect our creations to uncover the design principles we violated and reveal what actually makes experiences intuitive, trustworthy, and effective.

What to expect:

Modern AI & product design best practices
Interactive team design challenge
Group discussion and critique
Halloween-themed fun and networking
Light snacks and refreshments

🎃 Mild to moderate costumes are welcome (but absolutely not required).

Whether you're a UX designer, product manager, researcher, engineer, or AI enthusiast, come ready to laugh, collaborate, and learn why bad experiences can teach us a lot about creating great ones.

New to UX or OCXD?
You’re welcome here. OCXD events are inclusive, practical, and designed for a wide range of roles, experience levels, and industries.

Free parking available nearby.
We look forward to seeing you there!