Designkonferenser 2019

Magnus Olsson
NetRelations
Published in
14 min readJan 7, 2019
Photo by Steve Rogers/Getty Images

Januari

Agile Content Conference 2019

29 Januari ✈ London, England 🇬🇧

“Across corporations, charities and the government, digital teams are discovering that effective content is essential to experiences that work for users. Instead of performing outdated functions like “publishing information”, today’s content professionals combine their skills with agile methods from the world of product design. That means creating prototypes quickly, testing with users and learning from feedback — while working closely with colleagues in design, development and research. The end result? Digital services that are simple, clear and fast. And the chance to use your content skills to improve people’s lives.”

Februari

Interaction Design Education Summit 2019

3-4 februari ✈ Seattle, USA 🇺🇸

“The Interaction Design Education Summit will hold its seventh annual gathering at the start of Interaction Week 19, on 3–4 February 2019. This year’s summit will be co-hosted by Microsoft and the Design-Use-Build group at the University of Washington.”

Sustainable UX 2019

12 februari 🖥 Online

“The conference for UX, front-end, and product people who want to make a positive impact — on climate-change, social equality, and inclusion.”

Digital Thinkers Conf. by Awwwards.

14-15 februari ✈ Amsterdam, Nederländerna 🇳🇱

“This conference is aimed at Design Leaders & UX Designers, hungry to create unique digital experiences. Over 2 days & 24 talks at DelaMar Theater our aim is to help you create a solid work methodology, generate a culture of design within your organization, structure work teams, implement the most efficient design, prototyping & animation tools, whilst gaining a global understanding of the latest web trends & learning the secrets behind the success of the most important designers.”

User Experience Hong Kong (UXHK) 2019

15-16 februari ✈ Hong Kong 🇭🇰

“User Experience Hong Kong (UXHK) is a learning event dedicated to bringing all product and service design disciplines together, from research, marketing, design, technology and the business to name a few, who are interested and passionate about designing great experiences for people and business for a better world for all.”

The UX Conference

21 februari ✈ London, England 🇬🇧

“The theme of the conference on February 21st 2019 in London is designers and marketing: helping businesses grow. Join us and our speakers from LEGO, Canonical, Which?, Ocado, Monzo, Automattic, Condé Nast, Booking, Virgin Atlantic and others.”

Experience Design Week

25–27 februari ✈ Denver, USA 🇺🇸

“At Experience Design Week, learn about best practices from industry leaders with sessions targeted to both your specific function and sophistication of organizational experience design implementation. Take advantage of networking opportunities with the experience design community and be exposed to top consultancies and learn about how they can support your initiative.”

Mars

An Event Apart Seattle 2019

4–6 mars ✈ Seattle, USA 🇺🇸

“An Event Apart Seattle is a three-day conference with 17 sessions and an intense focus on digital design, UX, content, code, and more, giving you deep insights into where we are now and where things are going next.”

SXSW Interactive 2019

9–16 mars ✈ Austin, USA 🇺🇸

“Featuring a variety of tracks that allow attendees to explore what’s next in the worlds of film, culture, music, and technology, SXSW proves that the most unexpected discoveries happen when diverse topics and people come together.”

https://www.sxsw.com/conference

Pixel Up!

11–13 mars ✈ Kapstaden, Sydafrika 🇿🇦

“3 days, 16 talks and 3 workshops with authors, speakers, and design leaders who’ve worked at Google, Pinterest, Shopify, Adobe, eBay, IDEO and more.”

Design Research 2019

13-15 mars ✈ Sydney, Australien 🇦🇺

“A three-day event dedicated to design research — from planning and conducting, to analysis and use. This event includes a one-day workshop program and two-day presentation program, and you can purchase tickets for one or bot”

IUI 2019

17 mars ✈ Los Angeles, USA 🇺🇸

“ACM IUI 2019 is the 24th annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and serves as a premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces.”

Design Thinking & Innovation Week

18–22 mars ✈ London, England 🇬🇧

“An immersive programme for creative entrepreneurs, innovation directors and business owners — introducing you to London’s most innovative businesses and uncovering the latest approaches to design thinking and innovation.”

UX Copenhagen

18–19 mars ✈ Köpenhamn, Danmark 🇩🇰

“UX Copenhagen is a premium, two day conference for professionals working with and around User Experience (UX) Design. You will hear about some of the newest trends in UX and Design, presented by a diverse panel of speakers ranging from super gurus to people new to the field, from companies that range from being front-runners in User Experience to those who are just starting to create UX teams. We always feature start ups, and strive to bring in speakers and participants who are taking User Experience to a new level.”

April

UX insight 2018

3–4 april ✈ Utrecht, Nederländerna 🇳🇱

“UXinsight is an international event for UX research professionals and anyone interested in UX research. Join us for inspiring talks, workshops, discussions and demos of cutting-edge research tools.”

The eCommerce Design Summit 2019

4–5 april ✈ London, England 🇬🇧

“The eCommerce Design Summit pulls together the world’s most innovative eCommerce platforms, to discuss their Product Design, UX and Strategy. Our ambition is to create dialogue across the E-Commerce community, to accelerate the transformation of our digital commerce services for generations to come.”

Smashing Conference San Francisco 2019

16–17 april ✈ San Francisco, USA 🇺🇸

“For our fifth SmashingConf San Francisco (April 16–17), we’ll explore how to improve accessibility and front-end workflow, refactoring, security, interface design patterns, CSS Grid techniques, performance, and how to write better JavaScript. Plus a bunch of hands-on workshops on design, front-end and UX.”

Front End Design Conference 2019

24–26 april ✈ St. Petersburg, Florida, USA 🇺🇸

“Front End Design Conference is two days of immersive web design and front end development delivered via keynote style talks. There is also a day of more in-depth workshops thrown in for good measure.”

Maj

From Business to Buttons

3 maj ✈ Stockholm, Sverige 🇸🇪

“At From Business to Buttons 2019 you’ll get key insights into how to best collaborate to get the most value for your organisation. We’ll talk leadership, design systems, and how to go from design thinking to design doing. We’ll talk about how to actually use machine learning to add value to our solutions. We’ll even venture into space… This may sound abstract, but on the contrary, this year we’ll be more hands-on than ever. This year, we’re all about doing!”

UX Camp CPH 2019

3–4 maj ✈ Köpenhamn, Danmark 🇩🇰

“UX Camp is built on the BarCamp concept. This is a user-generated conference form, that requires active participation from everyone at every level. Contribution is the keyword. There are many ways you can help ensure that we have a fantastic UX Camp. You could give a presentation, facilitate a workshop or a discussion — or you could just actively take part in the many interesting sessions and conversations on the conference.”

Digitital Thinkers Conf. San Francisco by Awwwards.

9–10 maj ✈ San Francisco, USA 🇺🇸

“This conference is aimed at Design Leaders & UX Designers, hungry to create unique digital experiences. Over 2 days & 24 talks at Palace of Fine Arts, our aim is to help you create a solid work methodology, generate a culture of design within your organization, structure work teams, implement the most efficient design, prototyping & animation tools, whilst gaining a global understanding of the latest web trends & learning the secrets behind the success of the most important designers.”

UXLx: User Experience

21–24 maj ✈ Lissabon, Portugal 🇵🇹

“XLx is Europe’s premier user experience conference. It’s a unique opportunity to boost your knowledge and learn new skills in a four-day event with more than 20 hands-on workshops and 10 inspirational talks from world renowned speakers. Share new ideias and mingle with 500 attendees from all over the world, while cruising Europe’s most exciting city, Lisbon.
Come join us to celebrate our 10 years. It’s going to be legendary!”

DesignThinkers 2019 Vancouver

28–29 maj ✈ Vancouver, Kanada 🇨🇦

“DesignThinkers, Canada’s only annual conference for visual communicators, is a must-attend for informed, forward-thinking creative communications and design professionals. At this inspiring two-day event that takes place in Toronto (in the Fall) and Vancouver (in the Spring), we offer in-depth analyses of trends and best practices in branding, design thinking, design management, communications technologies and user experience with a range of opportunities to exchange ideas with colleagues, new and old. Attendees leave with a reconsidered and refined design or creative process, feeling inspired, refreshed and connected to the creative communications community.”

UX London 2019

29–31 maj ✈ London, England 🇬🇧

“UX London brings together the world’s leading design experts and practitioners. Join UX London for a programme of inspirational talks and hands-on workshops. Spend the mornings gaining unique insights from influential speakers. In the afternoon, roll up your sleeves and participate in the workshop of your choice.”

Juni

Enterprise UX 2019

3–5 juni ✈ San Francisco, USA 🇺🇸

“Each year, over 500 enterprise design and research leaders meet to sharpen their ability to create transformational products at scale. Come join your tribe and have conversations that will move your design forward at warp speed.”

Camp Digital 2019

12 juni ✈ Manchester, England 🇬🇧

“Camp Digital is an inspirational conference that brings together the digital, design and UX communities for a series of seminars exploring the latest thinking in our industry.”

Leading Design New York 2019

12–20 juni ✈ New York, USA 🇺🇸

“Leading Design is a conference for people leading design teams, overseeing design direction, or instilling a culture of design within their organisations. Listen to leaders from Lyft, Monzo, Pinterest, Google, Facebook and other design-led companies discuss the challenges of managing design, and becoming a better design leader.”

Smashing Conference Toronto 2019

25–26 juni ✈ Toronto, Kanada 🇨🇦

“For our second SmashingConf Toronto (June 25–26), we’ll explore the bright and dark sides of front-end and UX — responsive HTML email, naming conventions, security audits, GDPR and privacy, responsive art direction, front-end architecture, rendering performance, CSS Grid Layout, PWA, Vue.js, Webpack and how to set up bulletproof contracts. Plus a bunch of hands-on workshops on design, front-end and UX.”

Juli

An Event Apart Washington DC 2019

29–31 juni ✈ Washington DC, USA 🇺🇸

“An Event Apart DC is a three-day conference with 17 sessions and an intense focus on digital design, UX, content, code, and more, giving you deep insights into where we are now and where things are going next.”

https://aneventapart.com/event/washington-dc-2019

Augusti

UX and Digital Design Week

12–16 augusti ✈ London, England 🇬🇧

“Create experiences that people will fall in love with. Get inspiration for your current projects and advice on how to build a design team of your dreams. Find out the secrets of what makes products successful and what mistakes companies made when they were building new services.”

An Event Apart Chicago 2019

26–28 augusti ✈ Chicago, USA 🇺🇸

“An Event Apart Chicago is a three-day conference with 17 sessions and an intense focus on digital design, UX, content, code, and more, giving you deep insights into where we are now and where things are going next.”

September

Smashing Conference Freiburg 2019

9–10 september ✈ Freiburg, Tyskland 🇩🇪

“In our lovely hometown in Germany — will be taking place in the Historic Merchants’ Hall on September 9–10. With one track, two days, 13 speakers and 260 attendees, expect actionable insights for your work — right at the footsteps of the magical Black Forest.”

Design Matters 19

18–19 september ✈ Köpenhamn, Danmark 🇩🇰

“Design Matters brings together design practitioners from the best and most happening companies around the world for 2 days of talks, discussions, workshops and socializing. Currently, there is a new tone of voice appearing in apps and websites — a relaxed, friendly and joyful attitude towards users, which is changing the way we engage with apps and websites. The new attitude is breaking down borders — and making the experience much more personal, engaging and fun!”

Big Design Conference 2019

19–21 september ✈ Dallas, USA 🇺🇸

“Big Design is a way of thinking, not just an event. It’s looking at bigger pictures and sharing them so we all grow. Experience, wisdom, and creativity solve problems. The best part about Big Design is the low cost. For a third of the admission to most other conferences, Big Design delivers a powerful return. Get Early Bird tickets by Saturday, July 14.”

WebExpo Conference 2019

20–21 september ✈ Prag, Tjeckien

“2,000 creative developers, machine learners, post-fact marketers, design thinkers, and many more tech creatures, together in one place, discussing the current and future impact of innovative tech!”

Oktober

Smashing Conference New York 2019

15–16 oktober ✈ New York, USA 🇺🇸

“We pour our heart into creating friendly, inclusive events that are focused on real-world problems and solutions. Our focus is on front-end and UX but we cover everything web, be it UI design or machine learning. The New York edition is of course no exception.”

World Usability Congress 2019 & UX meets IT

15–17 oktober ✈ Graz, Österrike 🇦🇹

“The World Usability Congress is a two day international UX conference. In 2019 it will take place for the seventh time in Graz, Austria. We invite over 40 speakers from different industries to share their real-world UX challenges and collaborate with our attendees in multi-disciplinary workshops.”

World Usability Congress 2019 & UX meets IT

15–17 oktober ✈ Graz, Österrike 🇦🇹

“The World Usability Congress is a two day international UX conference. In 2019 it will take place for the seventh time in Graz, Austria. We invite over 40 speakers from different industries to share their real-world UX challenges and collaborate with our attendees in multi-disciplinary workshops.”

UX New Zealand

30–1 november ✈ Wellington, New Zealand

“The World Usability Congress is a two day international UX conference. In 2019 it will take place for the seventh time in Graz, Austria. We invite over 40 speakers from different industries to share their real-world UX challenges and collaborate with our attendees in multi-disciplinary workshops.”

http://www.uxnewzealand.com/

An Event Apart Denver 2019

28–30 oktober ✈ Denver, USA 🇺🇸

“An Event Apart Denver is a three-day conference with 17 sessions and an intense focus on digital design, UX, content, code, and more, giving you deep insights into where we are now and where things are going next.”

December

An Event Apart San Francisco 2019

9–11 ✈ San Francisco, US 🇺🇸

“An Event Apart San Francisco is a three-day conference with 17 sessions and an intense focus on digital design, UX, content, code, and more, giving you deep insights into where we are now and where things are going next.”

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