Karen speaking at AGNTCon + MCPCon Japan 2026 in Tokyo

Karen at AGNTCon + MCPCon Japan 2026 in Tokyo

Speaking

I speak about design systems, AI agents, and trust in complex products. I share what I learn from shipping real work, so other teams can build faster.

Open to talks, panels, and workshops. Reach me on the Contact page.

Talks

Built for Two: What Design Systems Are Missing When AI Agents Become the Third User

AGNTCon + MCPCon Japan 2026 · The Linux Foundation · Tokyo · September 11, 2026

Design systems serve designers and engineers. AI coding agents now use them too. I shared what breaks when agents become the third user, and the workflow that fixes it: multi-author review, a navigable component index, and naming that accounts for how agents read a codebase. I presented to a room of 800+ people building in agentic AI.

Get the Third User Kit on GitHub: a two-minute test, a component index template, a structure map, status tiers, and a doc template with multi-author review. Free under the MIT license.

Workshops

2019
Co-creating Design Thinking Workshops
Designed and directed co-creating workshops with customers (hematologists) in Austria and Germany
2019
0-1 Design Thinking Workshop
Cross-functional workshops designed and conducted to identify answers of critical business questions
2012
HP Digital Brand Experience Workshops
Designed and directed a series of digital brand experience workshops for internal organizations in China and Singapore

Writing

UX Blogs

How Agentic UX is Shaping the Future of Endor Labs
Discover how agentic UX streamlines application security workflows with proactive automation, faster decisions, and a more intuitive experience.
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Designing Agent Governance: A New Surface for AI Risks
How Endor Labs designed Agent Governance, a new product inside the existing platform. A look at three choices that shaped where the product lives, how risk reads, and where policies meet reality.
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Evolving Exports at Scale: Designing Reports for Three Different Workflows
How Endor Labs designed reports for three very different workflows: developers fixing findings, compliance team shipping artifacts, and AppSec engineers automating pipelines. One system, three rhythms.
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