Aday Sami-Orungbe Channels “Designers Anonymous” in 2025

 Designers Anonymous: Confessions from the Field
} Oct 3/4, 2025   TBD / 30 MINUTES

Design education fosters boundless creativity, yet the professional world imposes rigid constraints—corporate mandates, legal hurdles, and tight deadlines. This talk is group therapy for designers navigating these tensions. Drawing from her career in advertising, product, UX, service, and systems design, Aday will share unspoken truths about sustaining creativity amid limitations.

Through real stories—both humorous and introspective—we’ll explore compromises, resilience, and unexpected victories. Attendees can anonymously share their own experiences, creating a collective narrative of design’s realities. As a futurist, she’ll introduce foresighting to examine emerging challenges and opportunities in design. Whether you’re a new grad, mid-career, or seasoned pro, this session offers reflection, connection, and a reimagining of what design can be—beyond titles, aesthetics, and the myths we were told.

More than a talk, this will be a shared experience that will leave attendees inspired, validated, and ready to shape the industry’s future.

 Speaker Bio: Aday Sami-Orungbe
 Service Design

Ayomide (Aday) is a Nigerian-born, Ontario-based Senior Service Designer at Outwitly, with expertise in strategy, research, and product design. She has led creative teams across public and private sectors, including Federal Immigration, banking, and tech startups. Holding a BASc in Industrial Engineering (UofT) and an MDes (OCAD), she currently designs digital public services for the Government of Alberta. At CanUX, she’ll present “Designers Anonymous,” an interactive session on design realities.

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*Image credit: Aday Sami-Orungbe and generative AI.