AI
13 May 2026
Creatives in Conversation: Processes & AI-Powered Tools Shaping Today’s Design (San Jose)
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Adobe San Jose
321 Park Ave San Jose, CA 95110
San Jose
This event is a part of Design Silicon Valley, hosted by Design Bay Area.
Creatives in Conversation: Processes & Tools Shaping Today’s Design brings together local creative professionals for a candid discussion about how they work. From the spark of inspiration to final delivery, panelists will explore how AI-powered tools like Adobe Firefly are integrating into real design workflows, and where human creativity, instinct, and craft remain irreplaceable. Please allow extra time by arriving 15 minutes early for security and to Bring ID.Panelists:
Evgenia Piskun, Senior AI Artist and Creative Technologist. Adobe Ambassador. Creative Partner with 13+ AI platforms. 80K+ community. Helping creatives work with AI, and helping companies understand what their customers really need.
Ted Chin, a digital surrealist from Taiwan now based in San Francisco, is known for his dreamy Photoshop composites, featuring a blend of surrealism and ethereal nature spirits. With a career spanning over eight years, he has worked with clients like Grammy, Apple, and Adobe, even earning the spot as the cover artist for Adobe Photoshop 2021. Motivated by a desire to reveal the world’s wonder, Ted’s art inspires with its creativity and imagination.
Yiying Lu is an award-winning creative leader at the intersection of art, technology, and human experience — creator of the Twitter Fail Whale, six Unicode emojis including the Dumpling
and Bubble Tea
, and large-scale visual identity work for the United Nations and Disney Shanghai. Her work explores how symbols, letterforms, and visual language can make people feel seen, included, and at home — across cultures and billions of screens. A former San Francisco Arts Commissioner and Global Creative Director at 500 Global, she is an Adobe Global Creative Ambassador and Fast Company Most Creative Person in Business, and speaks at SXSW, TEDx, and Web Summit.
and Bubble Tea
, and large-scale visual identity work for the United Nations and Disney Shanghai. Her work explores how symbols, letterforms, and visual language can make people feel seen, included, and at home — across cultures and billions of screens. A former San Francisco Arts Commissioner and Global Creative Director at 500 Global, she is an Adobe Global Creative Ambassador and Fast Company Most Creative Person in Business, and speaks at SXSW, TEDx, and Web Summit.
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