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Outlasting the Machine: Why Core Skills Never Go Out of Style

Outlasting the Machine: Why Core Skills Never Go Out of Style

AI Confidence Future Skills Human Advantage Strategic Thinking Career Resilience Design Maturity
Sunday, August 2, 2026 Date
8:00 PM – 9:00 PM Time
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Free Price

About This Event

From traditional agency copywriting to UX writing, qualitative research, design talent mentorship, and AI-driven automation—the mediums through which we craft experiences are continuously shifting. Drawing from real-world transformations across advertising, B2B, health-tech, and enterprise fintech, this session unpacks how both researchers and content creators can navigate tech shifts without fear. We will explore how user research paradigms and content design blend, how AI is reshaping everyday workflows, and why core human empathy, strategic clarity, and mentorship remain timeless pillars of great design.

What You’ll Learn:
The Evolution of the Canvas: Tracing the shift from agency copywriting to UX writing, UX research, and AI workflow orchestration.
The Research & Content Paradigm Shift: How user research and content design merge to drive strategic banking experiences.
Building & Mentoring Future-Ready Teams: Lessons from running design internship and talent pipeline programs in changing tech landscapes.
The Immutable Core: Identifying the fundamental human skills (empathy, synthesis, inquiry) that outlast every AI tool cycle.
Adapting to Modern Workflows: Practical approaches to integrating AI automation while maintaining governance and human-centered research.

Who Should Attend?:
Content Designers, UX Writers, UX Researchers, Design Managers, Product Designers, Strategy Leads, and interns/early-career professionals looking to future-proof their craft in an evolving design landscape.

Why Attend?
Attendees will gain a holistic perspective on how both writing and research roles adapt alongside emerging technology. You will learn actionable strategies to evolve from a tactical creator to a strategic researcher and communicator, understand how AI fits into research and design workflows, and discover how to build, mentor, and sustain high-impact design capability within modern organizations.
Charmaine Paul
Charmaine Paul

Assistant Vice President Head of Content Design & UX Research Lead at HDFC Bank

Charmaine Paul, Assistant Vice President and Head of Content Design & UX Research Lead at HDFC Bank. An alumna of IIM Bangalore & NIFT Delhi, Charmaine’s career spans copywriting, health-tech, B2B e-commerce at udaan, and leading UX Research, Content Design, and the Design Internship Program at HDFC Bank. From driving customer research and AI workflows to mentoring emerging design talent, she brings a deep perspective on how industries evolve. Today, she’ll explore how writing and research mediums shift over time, and why core human skills remain irreplaceable in an automated world.
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