South Africa, Sept. 29 -- This is the central conversation driving the 2026 Absa Experience Design Collab (XDC), now in its third year as the bank's flagship platform dedicated to advancing experience design, innovation and customer-centred thinking across Africa.

Taking place under the theme "Designing for Trust: The Currency of the Future," this year's programme marks a significant evolution for XDC. While previous editions explored the future of digital experiences and celebrated design excellence, the 2026 programme shifts the conversation towards demonstrating how human-centred design delivers measurable business outcomes, strengthens customer relationships and creates long-term commercial value.

The theme recognises that, in an in...