Where to find design inspiration: The best UX conferences 2019–2020
Need to get inspired? We know exactly what you should do… Check out this list of UX conferences and UX workshops worth attending in 2019 and 2020!
You’ll meet new people and the best design professionals. Let yourself to get inspired in the easiest and the most interesting way — traveling and communication. Mark your calendar with our list of the greatest events related to usability, user experience, and web/mobile design for UX around the world that you don’t want to miss!
1. UX Strat
When: June 17–19,2019
Where: Amsterdam
Why: UX STRAT is a conference that brings together leaders, strategists, researchers, and senior design professionals from many nations to hear about and discuss the latest trends in strategic UX / Product / Service Design. Carefully curated presentations focus on the intersection of business strategy, user experience, customer experience, product design, and service design.
2. UXPA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
When: June 25 — June 27, 2019
Where: Scottsdale, AZ
Why: UXPA International is bringing designers, researchers, and academics from all over the world together in Scottsdale, AZ. Sessions include UX tools and techniques, emerging innovations, developing your career and everything in-between for all levels of UX professionals.
3. Esri User Conference
When: July 8–12, 2019
Where: San Diego, USA
Why: Thousands of hours of learning in one location. 1,000+ learning sessions, 450+ hours of GIS training, 300+ exhibitors, alongside 18,000+ of your peers for five days at the world’s largest GIS conference. Enjoy immersive learning, hands-on training, collaboration, networking, and fun.
4. UX Research and Insight Summit
When: July 15–17, 2019
Where: Chicago, USA
Why: The UX Research and Insights Summit is part of the ‘Summer Insights Fest.’ By bringing together three events: Insights Talent & Leadership Summit, Shopper Insights in Action, and UX Research and Insights Summit, you get access to networking with over 400 cross-industry insights leaders. This is your best opportunity to learn best practices from those in the UX field, and network with people across the insights function to ensure UX is delivering value across the insights ecosystem.
5. The Summer Insights Fest
When: 15–18 July 2019
Where: Chicago, USA
Why: The Summer Insights Fest unites three marquis events under one roof: The Shopper Insights & Retail Activation Conference, The UX Research & Insights Summit, and The Insights Leadership & Talent Summit. For Researchers, UX Designers, and UX strategists
6. UX Camp Hamburg
When: July 27, 2019
Where: Hamburg, Germany
Why: The UX Barcamp Hamburg is a yearly event, where people interested in the broad topic User Experience are gathering: designers, strategists, product people, project managers, developers, tinkerers and everyone else. And the best about it: It’s a free event thanks to our fabulous sponsors.
7. Digital Product by Design
When: July 29–31, 2019
Where: LA, USA
Why: DIGITAL PRODUCT BY DESIGN is hyper-focused on both the evolving digital landscape and the ‘design doing’ of creating excellent products & experiences, Digital Product by Design acknowledges that the creation of digital products extends far beyond UX & Engineering.
8. UX and Digital Design Week
When: 12–16 August 2019
Where: London, UK
Why: 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.
9. ConveyUX Boston
When: August 16, 2019
Where: Boston, USA
Why: ConveyUX Boston is bringing together leaders in product design and user experience to improve collaboration and innovation. This event is designed to help each of us gain an appreciation of shared knowledge, skills, and techniques. For the past seven years, the ConveyUX conference has been the premier conference in the Pacific Northwest for user experience practitioners. Produced by Blink UX, the conference has showcased hundreds of topics and attracted thousands of participants.
10. UX STRAT USA
When: August 27–28, 2019
Where: Boulder, Colorado
Why: UX STRAT USA will have carefully curated presentations and workshops focused on the intersection of business strategy, user experience, customer experience, product design, and service design. UX STRAT is single track, which promotes a strong sense of community, and provides ample networking opportunities. Each year this event helps attendees take experience design to the next level in their organizations.
11. UX Australia
When: 27–30 August 2019
Where: Sydney, Australia
Why: UX Australia is Australia’s premier User Experience Design conference, now in its 11th year, with workshops and presentations to suit everyone from graduate to experienced practitioners. Be inspired for your next project, discover knowledge that stretches your thinking in a new direction, or learn from someone who has tackled a problem just like yours.
12. Usability Professionals 2019
When: 8–11 September 2019
Where: Hamburg, Germany
Why: The Usability Professionals is the practice-oriented part of the annually Mensch und Computer conference organized by the German UPA. With more than 700 participants in the past, the Mensch und Computer alias MuC is one of the largest German-speaking IT conferences and the largest HCI conference in Europe. The main scope of this conference is to connect people from IT as well as design, psychology, etc., and keep in touch with the latest trends in the field of HCI, interface design and UX.
13. FlUXible 2019 — Canada’s UX Festival
When: 16–22 September 2019
Where: Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario Canada
Why: A full week of user experience goodness including meetups, workshops, and two days of the conference.
14. Design Matters 19
When: 18–19 September 2019
Where: Copenhagen, Denmark
Why: Design Matters brings together design practitioners from the best and most happening companies around the world for two 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!
15. EXPERIENCExSCIENCE during Advertising Week
When: 25 September
Where: New York, USA
Why: You will hear from brands — both established and new — about how they are achieving memorable and meaningful customer experiences. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn what it takes to succeed in the new age of customer experience marketing. We’ll explore these areas:
- What is the role of CDP in managing customer experience?
- How can brands get the best out of paid, owned, and earned media?
- What are the best practices for measuring customer experience investments?
- How can companies successfully make customer experience a collaborative company-wide initiative?
16. UX Alive
When: 1–2 October 2019
Where: Berlin, Germany
Why: UXAlive is the largest international event on User Experience and Usability composed of both presentations and workshops held by international UX stars. Presentation Topics: User Experience Design, UX Research, User Testing, Usability, User Interface Design, Interaction Design, Conversational UX, VUI, Experience Design, Service Design.
17. UXDX Conference
When: 7–8 October 2019
Where: Dublin, Leinster Ireland
Why: 2000+ Attendees! At UXDX, we are committed to helping teams shorten the time to product success. Within two stages over two days, UXDX brings designers, developers, and product managers together centered around a new agile delivery model on outcome-driven development. The main UXDX conf is now going into its 4th year in The RDS, Dublin. With 1,500 people attending from all over the world, making it one of the largest product events in Europe and the fastest-growing product event in the world.
18. UX Poland
When: 9–11 October 2019
Where: Warsaw, Poland
Why: UX Poland — one of the biggest UX conferences in Europe. Today marks ten years since a group of passionate innovators blazed the trail for the development of User Experience in Poland. We source the knowledge from the founding fathers of UX and combine it with the experience of young practitioners. We teach about the general rules of UX based on reliable research and prove our theories with leading case studies.
19. Canvas Conference
When: 10 October 2019
Where: Birmingham, England
Why: Canvas is a 1-day digital product and user experience conference, all about exploring the insider stories behind the world’s most interesting products and services. The day will provide insights directly from the people involved in building those products, from a very cross-discipline point of view (tackling problems of UX /engineering/design/business).
20. Midwest UX Conference 2019
When: 10–12 October 2019
Where: Grand Rapids, Michigan United States
Why: Midwest UX (MWUX) is the must-attend conference of the user experience community. Now entering its eighth year, the annual traveling conference draws over 500 attendees from across the region. Chicago was selected through a competitive bid, vying against other applicant cities for the chance to host speakers and attendees from across the country and around the world to discuss human-centered design.
21. World Usability Congress 2019
When: 15–17 October 2019
Where: Graz, Styria Austria
Why: The World Usability Congress is an international premier user experience design conference. Two days of conference presentations provide practical skills to take away, inspire you for your next projects, stretch your knowledge, or show how someone has tackled a problem just like the one you’re facing.
22. Push Conference
When: 24–25 October 2019
Where: Munich, Germany
Why: Push UX is a lovingly crafted platform for hands-on design professionals and creative technologists. PUSH UX unites professionals that aim to create compelling interactive experiences in the shape of products, apps, websites and installations, inspired by user needs and enabled by creative use of technology and critical thinking.
23. CanUX 2019
When: October 31 — November 3, 2019
Where: Ottawa, Canada
Why: Canada’s premier annual UX event. 10th edition. We are the longest-running and largest annual experience design event in Canada and are constantly looking for ways to create one of the most inclusive, affordable, world-class UX conferences.
24. UX Design & Usability Conference
When: 5–7 November 2019
Where: Sofia, Bulgaria
Why: UX Sofia started in 2011 and since then growing bigger and bigger. Today it is the best conference to share user experience in Bulgaria. Join the event to learn how user experience influences machine intelligence, about UX and SEO, metrics, measurement and return on investment, etc.
25. The UX LIVE Conference 2019
When: 11–13 November 2019
Where: London, Great Britain
Why: UX LIVE 2019 presents three days of practical, actionable insights into the UX methodologies and best practices employed by some of the world’s leading researchers and designers. Spanning user research, product & service design, emerging technologies, and design leadership. UX Live offers multiple talk tracks, panel discussions, and a full day of workshops. You can ‘create-your-own-agenda’ by attending the content that best serves your personal skill development.
26. Mobile UX London (MUXL) 2019 Conference
When: 21 November 2019
Where: London, England Great Britain
Why: MUXL Annual Conference has assembled a team of industry leaders, ready to share invaluable insights into their spheres of work. You will learn not only through keynote talks but by taking part in masterclasses and workshops run throughout the entire day. Regular attendees of MUXL events will know they always strive to pack in as much inspiring content as possible. Through short, sharp, and focused talks, you are guaranteed to leave with plenty of awesome ideas and strategies to help manage your upcoming projects.
27. User Experience Hong Kong
When: 21–22 February 2020
Where: Hong Kong, China
Why: User Experience Hong Kong (UXHK), founded in 2011, is an annual 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.
28. ConveyUX
When: 3–5 March 2020
Where: Seattle, USA
Why: ConveyUX is a Seattle-based event designed for practitioners of interaction and visual design, user research, and content strategy. Produced by Blink, the eighth annual event takes place March 3–5 in downtown Seattle at The Westin. ConveyUX is a Pacific Northwest showcase for UX. The upcoming program will feature 40 great speakers presenting over 50 educational sessions through three full days.
29. UXLx
When: Lisbon, Portugal
Where: May 2020
Why: UXLx is a unique four-day User Experience event set in sunny Lisbon, Portugal on May 2020. 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, having attracted in past editions attendees from almost 40 countries all around the world.
30. UX London
When: May 2020
Where: London, UK
Why: UX London is a Clearleft event. We’re a strategic design & innovation consultancy. Our team of industry-leading strategists, design thinkers, technologists, and innovators work inside global brands to help design leaders get the most from their products, services & teams. Each day of the conference focuses on a different theme — you can join us for all of them or a pick a day that suits you and your team best. We have all our talks in the morning, and then after lunch, everyone heads off to their chosen workshops to do some hands-on, practical learning.
So guys, pack your bags and go for knowledge and inspiration!
Originally published at uxreality.com
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