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Webinar: The trap of accidental design in digital products
UX/UI
May 19, 2026

Webinar: The trap of accidental design in digital products

As digital products evolve, disconnected design decisions can gradually impact usability, scalability, collaboration, and delivery efficiency without teams fully recognizing the root causes. This webinar explores how organizations can identify accidental design patterns early and transition toward more intentional, scalable product design practices.

Digital products rarely become fragmented overnight. More often, inefficiencies accumulate gradually through disconnected UX decisions, inconsistent interfaces, rushed releases, overlapping ownership, and short-term delivery pressure. Over time, teams may begin experiencing slower delivery cycles, growing maintenance complexity, inconsistent customer experiences, and reduced product scalability, without a single obvious root cause.

This webinar explores the concept of accidental design: how it develops inside modern digital products, how to recognize its symptoms early, and how organizations can transition toward more intentional and scalable design practices.

Whether you are scaling an existing platform, modernizing a legacy application, or trying to improve collaboration between product, design, and engineering teams, the session will provide practical insights into the operational and business impact of design decisions over time.

What we will cover

  1. What is accidental design?

Understanding how products gradually evolve into inconsistent experiences through disconnected decisions, feature additions, and fragmented workflows.

  1. The symptoms teams often overlook

How accidental design reveals itself through UX inconsistencies, duplicated patterns, unclear navigation, inefficient collaboration, delivery friction, and growing product complexity.

  1. Why accidental design happens

A breakdown of the three levels where accidental design typically develops:

  • Process level
  • Team level
  • Organizational level
  1. The business impact behind the problem

Real-world examples demonstrating how design inconsistency can influence usability, onboarding, delivery speed, scalability, and operational efficiency.

  1. Moving from accidental to intentional design

Practical approaches for creating more scalable, consistent, and collaborative product design environments through systems thinking, structured workflows, and stronger cross-functional alignment.

Who should attend

This webinar is designed for:

  • Product managers and product owners
  • UX/UI designers and researchers
  • Startup and scale-up leadership teams
  • Digital product and innovation teams
  • Organizations modernizing existing digital products

Meet the speaker

Denys Mandryk is a Senior UX/UI Designer with 5+ years of experience in web and application development, specializing in scalable, user-centered digital products that align business goals with practical product outcomes. His expertise spans the full product design lifecycle, including user research, heuristic and competitor analysis, personas, CJM and JTBD frameworks, information architecture, user flows, wireframing, prototyping, usability testing, and design systems development. Working closely with product, engineering, and business stakeholders, Denys focuses on transforming complex requirements into intuitive experiences that improve usability, consistency, collaboration, and long-term product scalability.

Webinar details

Date: 24th June 2026
Time: 5PM CET
Format: Online webinar via Microsoft Teams
Duration: Up to 60 minutes including Q&A

Register for the webinar

Join the session to learn how intentional design practices can help teams build more scalable digital products, improve collaboration across functions, and create more consistent user experiences over time.

Register for the webinar here
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