While the Summer list of design conferences entirely consisted of online events, the Autumn one has almost half of the conferences going offline! However, if you don’t feel like traveling, there’re plenty of online events that can help you get better in UI/UX design, front-end development, branding, and other areas.
SmashingConf Freiburg (ONLINE)
Date: September 7–8, 2020
With one track, two days, and 13 speakers, expect actionable insights for your work. The organizers pour their hearts into creating friendly, inclusive events that are focused on real-world problems and solutions. Their focus is on front-end and UX but they cover everything web, be it UI design or machine learning. The Freiburg edition is of course no exception.
Learn more: https://smashingconf.com/freiburg-2020/
Future of Branding Week
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date: September 7–8, 2020
From Sonic Branding to VR and AR — explore how leading brands are disrupting the industry using new channels and evolving technologies. Discover the most innovative approaches to brand strategy from world-class creative and advertising agencies.
Learn more: https://futurelondonacademy.co.uk/en/course/branding
London Design Festival
Location: London, UK
Date: September 12–20, 2020
London Design Festival celebrates and promotes London as the design capital of the world. This year, London Design Festival wants to put the spotlight on the brilliance of London’s design scene at a time when it needs to be promoted more than ever.
Learn more: https://www.londondesignfestival.com/
Whatabout: Future of Brands (ONLINE)
Date: September 11–13, 2020
The world is shifting right before our eyes. Technology is transforming markets, society, brands, and everyday life. We’re already living in digital reality — there is no going back from here. To be in the forefront of transformations, or try to catch up? We discuss, and then you choose.
Learn more: https://whatabout.digital
Design Matters
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Date: September 23–24, 2020
Design matters is a platform and community for creatives on a mission to explore new movements in digital design. It is made by designers, for designers, with designers on stage. Their mission is to spark up the conversation about the work and the role of digital designers — now and in the future. Each year, design practitioners jump on stage to talk with honesty and passion about their experiences, challenges, successes, and failures.
Learn more: https://designmatters.io/
MobileHCI (ONLINE)
Date: October 5–8, 2020
22nd International Conference on Human-Computer interaction with mobile devices and services. The Mobile HCI Conference Series has shaped research, development, and practice in mobile devices and services for over two decades now. In 2020, the conference will expand its horizon of mobile interaction.
Learn more: https://mobilehci.acm.org/2020
UXDX Conference (ONLINE)
Date: October 8–9, 2020
UXDX Online has the same curated content but they release 5 hours of content each morning so you can watch in your preferred order and at your pace. No more FOMO when two sessions you wanted to see were scheduled at the same time!
Learn more: https://uxdx.com
Forward Festival
Location: Vienna, Austria
Date: October 8–9, 2020
Forward is all about connecting, exchanging, and being part of an exciting experience. Within six years, the festival has become a platform for the entire creative industry, and this year it’s about to be more interactive than ever before.
Learn more: https://forward-festival.com/vienna
SmashingConf NY (ONLINE)
Date: October 13–14, 2020
Meet an inclusive, practical, and friendly conference on front-end, design, and UX, with CSS/JS techniques, accessibility, performance, privacy, and real-life case studies. The organizers pour their hearts into creating friendly, inclusive events that are focused on real-world problems and solutions. Their focus is on front-end and UX but they cover everything web, be it UI design or machine learning. The Freiburg edition is of course no exception.
Learn more: https://smashingconf.com/ny-2020
UX HEALTHCARE (ONLINE)
Date: October 14, 2020
We live in a world of constant change. Technology is evolving more rapidly than anyone would have ever thought. In healthcare, this change is not embraced as much as in other industries. Most healthcare systems weren’t designed for this world. UX Healthcare aims to make a difference because a better design is needed in the healthcare industry. From clinicians, healthcare insurances to hospital equipment manufacturers — their goal is to help healthcare across the world to implement the best user experiences possible.
Learn more: https://uxhealthcare.co
World Usability Congress (ONLINE)
Date: October 19–23, 2020
For 2020 we are very excited to do this via an online conference experience — named “World Usability Congress Connect 2020” or simply WUC Connect 2020. Five 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.
Learn more: https://worldusabilitycongress.com
EPIC 2020
Date: October 19–28, 2020
The conference theme this year is SCALE. Throughout 2020 the EPIC community will engage, work across, and reframe scale in a world where “bigger, faster, easier, broader” is the prevailing framework that defines desired and expected goals. In these times of critical, planet-wide climate, technological, economic, political and social change, SCALE invites us to confront how concepts of scale define the scopes, contexts, and impacts of ethnographic work in creating value in the organizations we work for and with, and in sustaining our global futures.
Learn more: https://2020.epicpeople.org
Adobe MAX
Date: October 19–21, 2020
Location: Los Angeles, CA
MAX is the annual gathering of more than 14,000 graphic, web, and multi-disciplinary designers; creative and art directors; film, video, and motion graphics pros; photographers; and creative leaders. With main stage talks, satellite talks, hands-on workshops, and parties this 3-day event is packed with ways to pile on the learning and networking. Brought to you by the folks behind the software we all know and love, this event is top-notch.
Learn more: https://max.adobe.com
An Event Apart Fall Summit (ONLINE)
Date: October 26–28, 2020
Online Together: Fall Summit is an online three-day conference with 18 speakers 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.
Learn more: https://aneventapart.com/event/online-1020
AIGA Design Conference (ONLINE)
Location: Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
Date: November 12–14, 2020
Each morning, plan to attend the Symposia of your choice. Our symposia are topic-specific deep dives, featuring industry experts as curators and hosts. In the afternoon, general sessions bring everyone together around the mainstage. Plan to hear from a diverse-line up of designers, artists, entrepreneurs, and more. A special thank-you to the conference chair, Richard Ting, who has curated a fantastic line-up of speakers reflecting on the topics and narratives that enable all of us to create better bridges to each other.
Learn more: https://designconference.aiga.org
