Inviting independent creatives, solopreneurs, and the freelance-curious! Join us for a morning of coffee*, conversation, and community as we explore how we can creatively redesign the way we work and live. Set inside Fellow’s Mission District flagship store, our pop-up café invites you into a shared coffee ritual and a space for thoughtful dialogue on

Explore the intersection of UX design and AI/ML—how designers can and should shape the user experience around intelligent systems, focusing on usability, transparency, trust, and human agency.  In an era where artificial intelligence is embedded in everything from search engines to smart assistants, the role of user experience (UX) design is being radically redefined. This

How does art heal? How can a single sensory moment reconnect us with ourselves? Join internationally acclaimed artist and designer Xinye Lin — founder of  XINYE LIN LLC, creator of Nebula (a multisensory solid perfume for calm), and visionary behind immersive healing experiences exhibited at Times Square NYC, the United Nations Headquarters, the Cooper Hewitt

What if fragrance could be a portal? What if design could become a healing language?  Inside of Nebula is a one-day immersive art and design experience created by internationally acclaimed multidisciplinary artist and designer Xinye Lin, founder of XINYE LIN LLC.  Blending fragrance, light, sound, and spatial storytelling, the experience explores solid perfume as a

In a world of over-designed solutions, what if the best answer is to do less, and do it smarter?  Hosted by MKThink, a pioneer in innovative spatial design for over 25 years, this talk, and interactive workshop explores the power of accurate as a lever for design impact.  Rooted in the firm’s Build Less, Solve

Panel Description: How do we design for a world that doesn’t yet exist? In this interdisciplinary panel, creators and technologists from the Echoes of Future Matter exhibition come together to explore the evolving relationship between materiality, emerging technologies, and speculative design. Rooted in San Francisco’s layered ecological and cultural contexts, this panel invites reflection on

Is this you? “Work is fine, but I feel like I’m meant to do more…” “I wanna do something that’s more meaningful to me…” “Am I really maximizing my potential? How would I even know?” “I worked so hard to be here but do I wanna keep going in this direction?” You’ve checked the boxes,