AI for Design

Description

As a Mendix developer, you often do it all: requirements analysis, building, testing, deploying your app and a whole lot more. Design lands on your plate too, even though it's a whole discipline of its own. Mendix makes building fast and easy, but that doesn't make design work fast or easy. And more often than you'd like, designers aren't available, especially when you need them most. There's no UX team at all, no time, no budget, or design was never prioritized. Or there's a solid design for the MVP, and then the client asks for new features the design never covered.

AI agents can now take a good part of that work off your plate. They help you stay consistent with the design system and with the rest of the app, make your pages prettier along the way, and can advise on which widgets you should use.

Join us at Sopra Steria for dinner and a hands-on workshop based on the Interaction Design Foundation's AI for Designers course, tailored for Mendix and agentic AI. Bring your laptop and your appetite.

In this workshop, you and an AI agent take on the work a designer would normally do on a basic level, from the first question to a page built in Studio Pro: We will briefly cover brainstorming techniques and design deliverables, move on to GenUI via a tool of your choice, and finally implementing this in Mendix via agents.

We still need designers, and AI helps them do even better work. This evening is about the projects where you don't have one. Even then, you want to deliver an app that works intuitively, is accessible and stays consistent as new modules arrive.

Schedule

• 16:00 - Walk-in
• 16:30 - Early dinner
• 17:30 - Intro
• 18:00 - Hands-on: from user story to page in Studio Pro
• 20:15 - Show what you built
• 20:30 - Drinks

What do you need?

• A laptop with a charger.
• Mendix Studio Pro 11.12 (LTS) or higher, installed and signed in.
• A paid subscription to an AI agent that can work on your computer. I use Claude with Claude Code. Codex through ChatGPT Plus works too, but the examples and support focus on Claude.
• Basic knowledge of agentic AI. We will not cover what an AI agent is or what an MCP server is. We will go through setting up the MCP connections between your agent and your GenUI tool, and between your agent and Studio Pro.
• Enough token allowance for an evening of heavy use.

Additionally

• Want to design in Figma? Then you need a paid Figma plan with a Full seat. A free account doesn't give you enough MCP calls for one evening. You can duplicate our design system, based on the Mendix Atlas UI Kit, as a starting point.
• No Figma? Google Stitch is free with a Google account.

Who is it for?

Mendix developers and consultants who design or build pages without a designer on the team.

About the speaker

Rico Robinson, Mendix Expert Developer and Senior Mendix Software Engineer at Sopra Steria. Specialized in UX and front-end quality. Currently figuring out how AI agents fit into the Mendix SDLC.

Practical

• Location: Ringwade 1, Nieuwegein
• Language: English

When you sign up, let us know your dietary requirements, preferably several days in advance.

Location and Time

Location: In person

\nAddress: Ringwade 1, 3439 LM Nieuwegein Netherlands

Start date: 25-11-2026 04:00 PM

End date: 25-11-2026 09:00 PM

Timezone Europe/Amsterdam

General Information

Host: Sopra Steria

EventType: Meetup

Language: English

Nubmer of Seats: 150