Omnimodal Design: The New Design Stack for the Age of AI

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Design is shifting fast under AI, and few designers have a map. In this webinar, Anne Cantera (Elementyl Intelligence) unpacks the Adaptive Design Stack: how existing design skills carry into an AI-driven career, and which new skills are actually worth your time. Think of it as a new design Bible for the AI era.

Design isn't dead, it's being redistributed. As AI reshapes what designers build and how they work, the label "AI-native designer" has become a reductive catch-all that obscures more than it explains.

In this webinar, Anne Cantera, a multidisciplinary designer spanning graphic, web, UX/UI, and conversation design, introduces her framework for what's actually changing: the Adaptive Design Stack, six forces now shaping every user experience:

Language: how meaning and intent are structured
Interface: multimodal, omnimodal, adaptive, generative surfaces
Agents: tool and action design, swarms, autonomy boundaries
Journey: end-to-end flows, escalation paths, state and handoff design
Judgment: evaluation, QA, and confabulation analysis
Governance: model behavior design, monitoring, continuous improvement

Anne will introduce several original concepts from her practice, including elastic design systems (components that self-place inside a self-building interface), continuity architecture (seamless handoffs across voice, chat, SMS, and human/AI agents), and confabulation analysis (a practical method for diagnosing and fixing AI hallucinations).

The session grounds these ideas in near-term, practical examples: queryable forms replacing static mobile forms; modality routing that shifts a user from voice to text mid-experience based on context and cognitive load; and spec-driven AI development, where PRDs, ADRs, and intent/language systems come before prompting.

Rather than another list of AI tools or predictions about the future of design, this is a new design Bible for the AI era: a practical framework for understanding what designers already know, what is genuinely changing, and where to build new capability.

If you're trying to figure out what AI means for your design career, this session will give you a clearer map — and something concrete to bring back to your team.

Anne Cantera is an AI solutions consultant specializing in agent orchestration, conversation design, and voice systems. With experience spanning telecom, legal tech, healthcare, and enterprise AI strategy, she helps organizations move beyond the AI hype and build systems that deliver measurable results — from improved customer experiences to leaner operations.

Anne bridges design, product, and engineering to create AI solutions that work in the real world. She is the creator of VoiceofAI.io, a free upskilling resource for designers entering the AI space, and is developing Agent Modus, a platform for visualizing and orchestrating multi-agent workflows. She also co-hosts Swarmathon, a podcast on AI for good, and hosts DESIGNathon, an event at the intersection of AI and design.

Rachel is an experienced Conversational AI Consultant who specializes in customer-facing chat experiences for highly-regulated industries and government agencies. She is a business-savvy, human-centric designer who also has extensive experience with customer service, thanks to her early career as a licensed insurance agent. At CDI she enjoys building RAG solutions for clients and contributing to CDI Academy work through webinar development and hosting Unprompted episodes.