The best European design events and conferences in 2017
Guide for UX/UI designers who are looking for events and conferences to attend this year
May 2017
UX London 2017
3 days of inspiration for UX designers
We bring engaging industry leaders from around the world to present a combination of inspirational talks and lively, hands-on workshops.
- Location: London, UK
- When: MAY 24–26 2017
- Tickets: £345 — £1,125
UXLx 2017
User Experience Lisbon 2017
UXLx is a unique four-day User Experience event set in sunny Lisbon, Portugal from 23 to 26 May 2017. A premier event for User Experience Professionals, Designers, Information Architects and Usability Practitioners, UXLx will bring together 500 professionals from around the world. Coupled with a set of world renowned speakers, all of them published authors and leading experts in their fields, UXLx is the largest event of its kind in Europe.
- Location: Lisbon, Portugal
- When: MAY 23–26 2017
- Tickets: 395€ — 1495€
webinale 2017
The holistic web conference
webinale is the conference for digital professionals, trendsetters and makers in the World Wide Web- it’s the optimal crossover platform for knowledge transfer, inspiration and exchange of experience across all industries.
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- When: 29 May — June 2, 2017
- Tickets: 44€ — 1299€
June 2017
Digital Design Days 2017
THE EVENT OF THE YEAR
Digital Design Days is a 3-day event offering exclusive conferences, the second Offf Milano edition, professional workshops, digital showcases & installations, a party, an unmissable experiential Gala DDDinner and many more networking activities.
- Location: Milano, Italy
- When: 01—03 June 2017
- Tickets: €31.15 — €311.95
UX Camp Europe 17
The largest events for User Experience Professionals in Europe
500+ active participants from all over the world meet for inspiration,
networking and lots of fun in Berlin every year.
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- When: 03. — 04. June 2017
- Tickets: Sold out
UX Scotland 2017
The conference for the UX, service design and digital communities in Scotland and the North of England.
UX Scotland is a hands-on, practical UX & design conference that allows participants to connect and learn from their peers and leaders in the industry.
- Location: Edinburgh, UK
- When: 7–9 June, 2017
- Tickets: £235 — £598
ProductCamp 2017
Largest design thinking, service design & UX event in Eastern Europe.
A unique event in the area of product & service design. Two days of interactive workshops and presentations enthusiasts and professionals from areas: user experience design, service & product design, product management.
- Location: Gdynia, Poland
- When: 9–10 June, 2017
- Tickets: 998 PLN — 1299 PLN
Flupa UX-Days 2017
France’s largest UX Conference
- Location: Paris, France
- When: 8–9 June 2017
- Tickets: Sold out
UX STRAT EUROPE
The largest events for User Experience Professionals in Europe
500+ active participants from all over the world meet for inspiration,
networking and lots of fun in Berlin every year.
- Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
- When: June 15–16, 2017
- Tickets: €895
Tomorrow Conference
5 days / 5 workshops / 5 meetups
A series of workshops and meetups to explore the new possibilities and challenges new technologies bring and their design applications. Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Machine Learning, Blockchain, Internet of Things. These are only some of the new technologies and words that have entered in our toolbox and vocabulary. Even though there’s no shortage of content on these topics, it’s often too complex for non-experts to distill without guidance. It’s essential that the designers of today and tomorrow understand the possibilities and challenge these technologies represent.
- Location: Porto, Portugal
- When: June 19–23, 2017
- Tickets: €49–€79
ADDC
App Design & Development Conference.
By gathering worldwide specialists, we aim to increase connections and exchange between local and international actors of web design, from developers to designers and managers.
- Location: Barcelona, Spain
- When: 22. — 23. June 2017
- Tickets: €349 — €499
UX Lausanne
First Western Switzerland event dedicated to User Experience Design and its surrounding fields.
By gathering worldwide specialists, we aim to increase connections and exchange between local and international actors of web design, from developers to designers and managers.
- Location: Lausanne, Switzerland
- When: June 29–30, 2017
- Tickets: CHF400 — CHF1,100
July 2017
Inspirefest 2017
The best conference for bright minds in Europe.
Inspirefest is a unique international festival of technology, science, design and the arts, covering key trends from Infosec to Blockchain, AI to Robotics, Games to Professional Development. The main conference runs July 6th & 7th in the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre in Dublin’s Silicon Docks.
- Location: Stockholm, Sweden
- When: 6–8 July, 2017
- Tickets: €95 — €395
September 2017
Reasons to: Design, Code & Create
Design, Code, Create & Come Together
Reasons to: is the award winning 3 day international conference with a festival vibe, held annually in Brighton UK, every first Mon, Tue, Weds of every September. Each year the very best international creative and developer speakers take to the stage to inform, inspire, entertain, thrill and educate designers and coders that attend from all over the world.
- Location: Brightnon, UK
- When: 4–5 September, 2017
- Tickets: £249
Generate London
A day of workshops precedes 2 days of exceptional talks.
Generate is back at the Royal Institution on 20th — 22nd September 2017 for three days guaranteed to be packed with insight, inspiration and practical take-aways.
- Location: London, UK
- When: 20–22 September, 2017
- Tickets: £199 — £595
Design Matters 17
New Movements in Digital Design
At Design Matters we bring together design practitioners from around the world for two days of design talks, workshops, discussions and socializing in Copenhagen.
- Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
- When: 27–28 September, 2017
- Tickets: kr5,995.00
EuroIA 2017
Adaptation and designing for change
The EuroIA summit is Europe’s leading Information Architecture (IA) and User Experience (UX) conference. It is a unique event that brings together veteran Information Architects, experts from diverse fields practising IA, and newcomers to the practice of IA and UX design.
- Location: Stockholm, Sweden
- When: 28–30 September, 2017
- Tickets: €280 — €750
October 2017
UXDX 2017
UXDX is a conference discussing the latest trends in User Experience (UX) and Developer Experience (DX) to help teams deliver successful products faster.
There is no other conference like it, bringing together design and development with a clear overarching focus on customer experience
- Location: Dublin, Ireland
- When: 4–7 October, 2017
- Tickets: €225–€450
UX Poland 17
New interactions, new interfaces
This year the UX Poland team wants to show more about interactions and new interfaces with their bounds.
- Location: Warsaw, Poland
- When: 11–13 October, 2017
- Tickets: €259–399
World Usability Congress 17
Europe’s most amazing UX conference
THE CONGRESS \ It is its application-oriented, economic and holistic approach that makes the World Usability Congress one of a kind on a global scale. We talk about Usability, User Experience (UX) & Customer Experience Management (CX)
- Location: Graz, Austria
- When: 11–12 October, 2017
- Tickets: €350— €2448
Amuse 2017
UX Conference
Amuse is an international conference for anyone interested in how to design and develop successful products that users love.
- Location: Budapest, Hungary
- When: 18–20 October, 2017
- Tickets: $300 — $450
push.conference
Since 2012 push.conference unites creative coding and user experience design, by offering a platform for designers, developers and UX professionals. This year we’ll see presenters from Google, Netflix and others speak about topics like Information Visualisation, UX Research and Experimentation, Machine Learning, Conversational UIs and more!
- Location: Munich, Germany
- When: 20–21 October, 2017
- Tickets: €300–€400 (go on sale June 6)
November 2017
Service Design Global Conference
Service Design at scale
We are looking forward to more than 600 participants from all over the world coming together to learn, share and network with business partners, designers and academics. The exchange of experiences, ideas and different perspectives with the open-minded and creative Service Design community is the highlight of the Service Design year! Side-events such as the Exclusive SDN Members Event and Reception, Young Talents Day, Service Design Tours and the annual Service Design Award make this a must for anyone interested in public or private sector service innovation.
- Location: Madrid, Spain
- When: 2–3 of November, 2017
- Tickets: €295–€ 3,485
KIKK Festival 2017
Invisible Naratives
KIKK Festival is a mix of technology, visual arts, music, Architecture, design and interactive media
- Location: Namur, Belgium
- When: 2–4 of November, 2017
- Tickets: Free, Pro Pass €204
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