Top UI/UX Design Conferences in Spring 2020
It’s a well-known fact that spring gives an energy boost to almost everyone. How about using the extra-enthusiasm for something useful this year? There’re going to be dozens of design conferences around the globe this spring, so don’t miss your chance to visit at least one of them to bring your skills and knowledge to the next level. Cadabra Studio prepared the list of best design conferences in spring 2020 so that you could choose the most interesting ones for yourself. We’d appreciate it if you thank us for the article with a bit of applause.
March 2020
The UX Conference
Date: March 2–3, 2020
Location: London, UK
Design conference that’s not about buzzwords, but collaboration between designers. Join the 5th conference and meet speakers with experience working in Transport for London, OpenTable, The Paciello Group, Nike, 1Password, Government Digital Service, Airbnb, Shopify, InVision, DuckDuckGo, and others.
Learn more: https://theuxconf.com
ConveyUX
Date: March 3–5, 2020
Location: Seattle, WA, United States
ConveyUX is the premier user experience conference on the West Coast. The 2020 conference in Seattle features 65 sessions from 50 UX leaders across three full days. One ticket price gets you everything, including workshops. They’ll keep you fueled with complimentary breakfast, lunch, and snacks. There are no extra charges at ConveyUX!
Learn more: https://conveyux.com/
Service Design in Government
Date: March 4–6, 2020
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
The original international community event for anyone involved in designing and commissioning public services. Returning for the 7th year, Service Design in Government 2020 is the original public sector service design conference, attracting an international audience and program of passionate Service Designer professionals.
Learn more: https://2020.govservicedesign.net/
Leading Design
Date: March 4–6, 2020
Location: San Francisco, CA, United States
Leading Design brings together experts who lead design teams, oversee design direction and instill a culture of design within their organizations. Most conferences are focused on practitioners. They’ve put together a unique program of events designed specifically to hone your leadership skills.
Learn more: https://leadingdesign.com/
NO/BS Conference
Date: March 11–12, 2020
Location: Melbourne, Australia
NO/BS Conference is agency owner Jason Soultan’s response to the persistent commercial tone of conferences and events in the digital space, where meaningful real-world content has been lacking. A place where like-minded people can get together, listen to some amazing stories and cut through all the…. BS. NO/BS is an event where people will be inspired, motivated and most importantly feel validated by knowing that their journey or work is similar to that of their counterparts and industry heroes.
Learn more: https://nobs.events/
Deliver Conference
Date: March 12, 2020
Location: Manchester, UK
DeliverConf is all about helping you to connect with your community! If you’re looking to learn from your peers, share your knowledge and get inspired then come and attend the DeliverConf for a relevant and interesting conference with bags of great practical takeaways.
Learn more: https://deliverconf.co.uk/
Design Thinking and Innovation Week
Date: March 16, 2020
Location: London, UK
Every day will consist of keynote presentations, case studies, roundtable discussions, and visits to the top companies who adopted the human-centered approach, where you will meet the teams behind their latest research and innovation.
Learn more: https://futurelondonacademy.co.uk/en/course/design-thinking-and-innovation
Booster Conference
Date: March 18–20, 2020
Location: Bergen, Norway
Booster is a software conference for the entire team. That means if you’re a developer, project manager, architect, UX professional, tester or security professional, they have something for you! Their goal is that you come back from the conference with real knowledge you can use. That’s why interactive, hands-on workshops fill up most of the hours of the conference. They also have lightning talks, a few short talks, a couple of keynotes and open spaces.
Learn more: https://2020.boosterconf.no/
Design Research
Date: March 18–20, 2020
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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 a two-day presentation program, and you can purchase tickets for one or both.
Learn more: http://www.uxaustralia.com.au/conferences/design-research-2020
Perth UX Camp
Date: March 19–20, 2020
Location: Perth, Australia
Australia’s favorite UX Camp (not actually involving camping), an unconference for UX professionals, students and enthusiasts. Following the Bar Camp format, it is a low-cost, collaborative event where participants of all levels are welcome and encouraged to bring and share talks, case studies, book reviews, workshops or group discussions.
Learn more: http://www.uxaustralia.com.au/conferences/design-research-2020
Ignite UX
Date: March 24, 2020
Location: Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Ignite UX Michigan is a free evening of 5-minute talks on a range of user experience, design, and research topics in Ann Arbor, MI. It is a free event open to the public thanks to their generous sponsors.
Learn more: http://www.igniteuxmi.com/
UX Copenhagen
Date: March 30–31, 2020
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
What is influence in UX? This is the subject that was given to the speakers for 2020: “Influence & Designing for Good”. Some of the speeches you will be hearing about are DesignOps, privilege, tech for social good, futures thinking, ethical OS, designing against domestic violence, and maybe even rocket science! Join the conference for two days filled with superb content from 20+ speakers, hands-on workshops, inspiration, networking, new knowledge, and new insights.
Learn more: https://uxcopenhagen.com/
AIGA Design Conference
Date: March 31- April 1, 2020
Location: Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Recharge your career with thought-provoking presentations, professional training, and meetups with design luminaries while taking in the City of Bridges. The 2020 AIGA Design Conference brings the design community together in a once-in-a-lifetime, cross-disciplinary exchange of ideas about the changing world of design.
Learn more: https://designconference.aiga.org/
April 2020
UIArchConf
Date: April 1–3, 2020
Location: New Orleans, LA, United States
UIArchConf is a unique conference and training event for those who work as UI Architects or are looking to become a UI Architect. If you are a Design, UX, User Experience, or Front-End developer/engineer, you can benefit both your company and your career by attending UIArchConf. You might already spend some of your time doing the things a UI Architect does! You will learn from your community experts who are currently in this role or are playing a similar role.
Learn more: http://uiarchconf.com/
Creative South
Date: April 2–4, 2020
Location: Columbus, GA, United States
Creative South is a weekend of creative thinking, collaboration, and exploration. Attendees enjoy workshops, talks focused on process and experience, and meeting old friends as well as making new ones. Their goal is to connect you to folks in the industry and the design community. It’s also a whole lot of fun!
Learn more: https://www.creativesouth.com/
Offset
Date: April 3–5, 2020
Location: Dublin, Ireland
With over 2,500 attendees each year, Offset has fast become one of the world’s most inspirational, educational and vocational conferences for the design and creative industries. Their speakers are makers, innovators and educators; carefully crafting every aspect of our visual landscape, helping us understand what’s gone before and inspiring us all in shaping the future.
Learn more: https://www.iloveoffset.com/
UX Insight
Date: April 6–8, 2020
Location: Breda, The Netherlands
This years’ theme focuses on the creative part of UX research. In our increasingly fast and agile working environments, we need to be even more creative to deliver solid research.
Learn more: https://event.uxinsight.org/
University of Illinois Web Conference
Date: April 8–10, 2020
Location: Champaign-Urbana, IL, United States
An affordable three-day conference for web designers, developers, social media marketers, content managers, and other web professionals within higher ed and beyond.
Learn more: https://webcon.illinois.edu/
UX Days Tokyo
Date: April 10, 2020
Location: Tokyo, Japan
The key to success is having the right UX knowledge inside the organization. The topics covered in the conference will be — the power of visual thinking, embedding service design in your organization through journey maps, UX design for growth and much more.
Learn more: https://2020.uxdaystokyo.com/
An Event Apart
Date: April 13–15, 2020
Location: Washington DC, United States
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 you are now and where things are going next.
Learn more: https://aneventapart.com/event/washington-dc-2020
Digital Thinking
Date: April 14–17, 2020
Location: Austin, TX, United States
Teamwork makes the dream work! As the #1 Event for Design, CX, and UX professionals, be a part of Design Thinking 2020 and get excited for four jam-packed days filled with hands-on learning workshops, site tours, and keynote presentations led by innovative design thinkers from all industries.
Learn more: https://www.designinnovationglobal.com/events-design-thinking/
Health Experience Design Conference
Date: April 14–15, 2020
Location: Boston, MA, United States
HXD has been thoughtfully designed to create a community that is inspired to make things happen. Workshops and other interactive activities will connect you with other doers across the healthcare ecosystem.
Learn more: https://healthexperiencedesign.com/
Health Experience Design Conference
Date: April 14–15, 2020
Location: Boston, MA, United States
HXD has been thoughtfully designed to create a community that is inspired to make things happen. Workshops and other interactive activities will connect you with other doers across the healthcare ecosystem.
Learn more: https://healthexperiencedesign.com/
Customer Experience Strategies Summit
Date: April 16–17, 2020
Location: Toronto, Canada
Discover how the visionaries and leaders behind the world’s most iconic organizations implement and leverage CX tactics & analytics. Use proven strategies from 15 case studies and 4 exclusive panel discussions. Meet with 50+ CX thought leaders from over and benchmark your CX strategies against them
Learn more: https://www.customerexperiencecanada.com/
UX STRAT Asia
Date: April 20–21, 2020
Location: Singapore
The UX STRAT Asia conference will explore data-informed design strategy and innovation-focused specifically on the Asian context. UX STRAT brings together design leaders, strategists, user researchers, design-focused data scientists, product managers, and experienced design professionals from many nations for presentations and workshops about the latest trends at the intersection of business strategy, user experience, product design, and service design.
Learn more: https://uxstrat.com/asia/
SmashingConf
Date: April 20–21, 2020
Location: San Francisco, CA, United States
SmashingConf is two full days packed with front-end, UX and all that jazz! Live sessions on performance, accessibility, interface design, copywriting, designing for emotion, debugging and fancy CSS/JS techniques — and a few surprises along the way.
Learn more: https://smashingconf.com/sf-2020
UX Healthcare
Date: April 22–24, 2020
Location: London, UK
UX Healthcare aims to make a difference because 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/
Beyond Tellerrand
Date: April 27–29, 2020
Location: Düsseldorf, Germany
Beyond Tellerrand is the affordable single-track event where creativity and technology meet. This year they invite you to celebrate 10 years of creativity, inspiration, learning and meeting with a lovely group of people each and every year. The main conference is taking place on Monday 27th and Tuesday 28th and as usual, they have a lot of other things planned around those dates with side events and workshops.
Learn more: https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusseldorf-2020
May 2020
Pixel Up
Date: May 4–6, 2020
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
3 days, 14 talks and 3 workshops with designers and design thinkers who’ve worked at Google, Facebook, Shopify. A great line-up including new voices, authors, speakers, and design leaders who’ve worked at Aardman, Mailchimp, Goldman Sachs, and more.
Learn more: https://pixelup.co.za/
From Business to Buttons
Date: May 6–8, 2020
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
From Business to Buttons (FBTB) is Scandinavia’s premier User Experience and Service Design conference, held every year in Stockholm, Sweden. It is the meeting place for everyone who wants inspiration, and hands-on advice, on how to generate business value by creating great experiences.
Learn more: https://frombusinesstobuttons.com/
An Event Apart
Date: May 11–13, 2020
Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
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.
Learn more: https://aneventapart.com/event/seattle-2020
Camp Digital
Date: May 13, 2020
Location: Manchester, UK
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.
Learn more: https://www.wearesigma.com/campdigital/2020/
UXConf BR
Date: May 15–16, 2020
Location: Porto Alegre, Brazil
An annual conference that unites the UX design community from all over Brazil. On the theme of UXConf BR 2020: Design with Purpose. The scope revolves around the work of UX Designers, Interaction Designers, Service Designers, Researchers in UX but neither is it restricted to that.
Learn more: https://www.uxconf.com.br/
UX Salon
Date: May 17–18, 2020
Location: Tel Aviv, Israel
UX Salon is a group dedicated to the professional practice and learning of user experience design. For two days of networking and great talks by design professionals and industry leaders.
Learn more: http://2020.uxsalon.com/
Confab
Date: May 17–20, 2020
Location: Minneapolis, MN, United States
From UX to storytelling, accessibility to structure, Confab brings together those who are committed to making content more useful and usable. Come find your people at Confab.
Learn more: https://www.confabevents.com/
UXLx User Experience Lisbon
Date: May 19–22, 2020
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
4 days of training and inspiration for UX Pros. UXLx is a premier User Experience Conference, and our speaker lineup is really the cream of the crop in the industry worldwide. You’ll not only be inspired by their 10 thought-provoking talks but you’ll have the opportunity to learn one on one in their 20 practical workshops. Over 80 hours of intensive workshops and inspirational talks that you can immediately carry over into your daily work.
Learn more: https://www.ux-lx.com/index.html
ACE!
Date: May 20–22, 2020
Location: Kraków, Poland
ACE! is the largest regional conference of its kind in Central Europe, attracting people from all over the region. ACE! 2020 which combines two tracks: Agile Software Development and Product Design & Management into one conference. They’ve also added a workshop day so that attendees can apply new skills and experiment with new ideas.
Learn more: https://aceconf.com/home
Ecommerce Design Summit
Date: May 20–21, 2020
Location: London, UK
The World’s First eCommerce Design Conference. The eCommerce Design Summit pulls together the world’s most innovative eCommerce platforms, to discuss Product Design, UX and Strategy. Their ambition is to create dialogue across the eCommerce community, which emphasizes the importance of customer-centricity within the product development lifecycle.
Learn more: https://ecommercedesignsummit.com/london/
UX London
Date: May 27–29, 2020
Location: London, UK
The conference is aimed to bring engaging industry leaders from around the world to present a combination of inspirational talks and lively, hands-on workshops. Each day of the conference focuses on a specific area of UX. You’ll get to hear talks from thought leaders from across the community each morning. The afternoons are all about interactive workshops and each day you’ll have six amazing options to choose from.
Learn more: https://2020.uxlondon.com/
DesignOps Global Conference
Date: May 287–29, 2020
Location: Manchester, UK
The DesignOps Global Conference is for design leaders, researchers, developers, practitioners, product managers, service innovators and business leaders that are defining the way we design and develop new products and services.
Learn more: https://designops-conference.com/
Front UX & Product Management
Date: May 28–29, 2020
Location: Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Two full days of dedicated time away from your desk, learning better ways to work together with your team and be inspired to grow your career in UX or Product Management. Together with over 1,000 other professionals, you’ll learn from extremely talented people influencing the organizations they work for and changing the way our industry looks at digital products and the way people use them.
Learn more: https://www.frontutah.com/conference/
UX Camp Europe
Date: May 30–31, 2020
Location: Berlin, Germany
The 2020 edition of the largest unconference for UX Professionals in Europe. 500+ active participants from all over the world meet for inspiration, networking and lots of fun in Berlin every year.
Learn more: https://www.uxcampeurope.org/
