The Best UX & Design Conferences to Attend in 2018
A comprehensive guide for UX and Design professionals, who are looking for conferences to attend in 2018
Last Update: 2018 June 15th
January
North America
Front
January 4–5, 2018
Park City, Utah United States
Front is the product conference for UX designers and product managers. It’s a practitioner’s conference. Attendees come for an education, real world, from-the-trenches case studies, and hands-on training from their peers. It’s four days of learning and growth, providing answers to deep organizational questions and insights into how to validate and solve the right problems in the right way.
GROUP 2018
January 7–10, 2018
Sanibel Island, Florida United States
For over 25 years, the ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work (GROUP) has been a premier venue for research on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Human Computer Interaction, Computer Supported Collaborative Learning and Socio-Technical Studies. The conference integrates work in social science, computer science, engineering, design, values, and other diverse topics related to group work, broadly conceptualized. Group 2018 continues the tradition of being truly international and interdisciplinary in both organizational structure as well as participants.
UXCamp DC 2018
January 13, 2018
Washington DC, United States
UXCamp DC is a one-day event with 24 45-minute sessions and workshops presented by thinkers and doers from all levels of experience. It is a day of gathering for people who are passionate about creating great experiences for people.
Europe
#btconf / beyond tellerrand Munich 2018
January 15–17, 2018
Munich, Germany
beyond tellerrand is an affordable event about web design, development, creativity, design and much more.
Elsewhere
Singapore UX Conference
January 29 –February 2
Singapore
NN/g’s UX Conference helps you get up to speed on user experience best practices so you can create successful interfaces.
February
North America
✦ ConveyUX 2018
February 27 –March 1, 2018
Seattle, Washington United States
The annual gathering of UXers in the Pacific Northwest. The Emerald City is bursting at the seams with all the high-tech development. Companies big and small are opening offices here and the user experience scene is exploding. If you haven’t been to Seattle before, this is a great time to get introduced. It might rain a bit, but the temperatures are always mild. ConveyUX is a great opportunity for locals and visitors to get together and enjoy Seattle while we hash about UX.
Los Angeles UX Conference
February 25 — March 2
Los Angeles, California United States
NN/g’s UX Conference helps you get up to speed on user experience best practices so you can create successful interfaces.
Europe
✦ Interaction 18
February 3–8, 2018
Lyon, France
The 11th annual interaction design conference organized by the IxDA.
Awwwards Conference Berlin
February 7–9, 2018
Berlin, Germany
Two exciting days with some of the most influential speakers of the industry, who inspire, teach, and guide us as we face the many challenges and opportunities which lie ahead in the future of the web.
Krupa UI/UX Conference
February 10, 2018
Kyiv, Ukraine
The UX Conference 2018
February 20, 2018
London, United Kingdom
Insightful day of practical UX design talks with an amazing line-up of speakers from Uber, Transport for London, Deliveroo, Moo, Bookatable, British Gas, Salesforce and more.
UXistanbul Conference 2018
February 20, 2018
Instanbul, Turkey
“The first International User Experience and Usability Conference of Turkey and Region.” We are a one-day user experience and usability event, and we annually “fascinate” our guests. By being the first UX conference of Turkey, we gather UX and Usability professionals from World’s leading companies in Istanbul, to share their experiences.
UX Copenhagen
February 27–28, 2018
Copenhagen, Denmark
UX Copenhagen is a two day conference for professionals working with and around User Experience Design. You will hear about some of the newest trends in the field, presented by a diverse panel of speakers ranging from super gurus to juniors, 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.
March
North America
✦ UIE UX Immersion: Interactions
March 5–7, 2018
Newport Beach, California United States
Master-grade workshops on groundbreaking interaction design skills that explore the critical edges of interaction design.
LX: Leading Experience Conference 2018
March 19–20, 2018
San Francisco, California United States
LX: Leading Experience prepares today’s leaders for the next hurdles in design leadership: designing organizations, driving change at scale, and continuously delivering better outcomes for businesses and people. If you’re leading the design and delivery of great experiences, this is your community. Together, we’ll speak frankly about design, organizations, and leadership in a world of increasing complexity.
✦ IA Summit 2018
March 21–25, 2018
Chicago, Illinois United States
Premier gathering place for people and ideas in Information Architecture & User Experience.
Europe
UXinsight 2018
March 8, 2018
Utrecht, The Netherlands
UXinsight is a full-day, international event for UX research professionals and anyone interested in UX research. It is one of the few events that really focus on the research side of UX, so not to be missed!
DSCONF — A design systems conference
March 14–15, 2018
Helsinki, Finland
DSCONF started as an idea by Mikko Häkkinen, within Elisa. What originally was an idea to gather up and share knowledge, exploded into a full-fledged conference, based on the worldwide interest both from speakers’ perpective but active participation as well.
Booster Conference 2018
March 14–16, 2018
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, we have something for you!
UX in the City
March 15–16, 2018
Manchester, England
A community-driven, practical User Experience conference in the heart of Manchester.
London UX Conference
March 17–23, 2018
London, England
NN/g’s UX Conference helps you get up to speed on user experience best practices so you can create successful interfaces.
UX Camp Brighton 2018
March 24, 2018
Brighton, England
An ‘unconference’ for anyone involved or interested in user experience design, user research, interaction design, information architecture, usability, accessibility and other associated fields. Attendees either ran or participated in 20 minute sessions, such as talks, demos or discussions. No headliners, no product pitches, just a friendly (if intense) event focused on sharing, socialising and learning new stuff.
Experience Conference 2018 Bratislava
March 26–27, 2018
Bratislava, Slovakia
Experience Conference is a yearly event that tackles the hottest UX topics in the CEE region. Come over and discuss with like-minded professionals, become part of an international community, make new partnerships and enjoy the talks of world leading UX experts.
Elsewhere
IUI 2018
March 7–11, 2018
Tokyo, Japan
ACM IUI 2018 is the 23rd annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and serves as a premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. ACM IUI is where the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community meets the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community. We are also very interested in contributions from related fields, such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design, the arts, etc.
✦ Design Research 2018
March 8–9, 2018
Melbourne, Australia
A two-day event dedicated to design research — from planning and conducting, to analysis and use.
UXHK 2018
March 9–10, 2018
Hong Kong, China
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.
CHIuXiD 2018
March 27–29, 2018
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
An ecosystem of international Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and User Experience (UX) academia and professionals to share and learn the latest in HCI, UX, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Big Data, Virtual and Augmented Reality.
April
North America
An Event Apart Seattle 2018
April 2–4, 2018
Seattle, Washington United States
An Event Apart Seattle: Special Edition is a three-day conference with 18 sessions and an intense focus on digital design, UX, content, code, and more.
Web à Québec
April 10–12, 2018
Québec City, QC Canada
The largest French-speaking digital event in North America.
UX+DEV SUMMIT
April 14–16, 2018
Fort Lauderdale, Florida United States
UX+DEV SUMMIT is South Florida’s largest User Experience and Developers conference! Join us for 3 days filled with immersive talks, workshops, and training courses in the areas of User Experience, Product Management, and Development.
Washington DC UX Conference
April 14–20, 2018
Washington DC, United States
NN/g’s UX Conference helps you get up to speed on user experience best practices so you can create successful interfaces.
Smashing Conference San Francisco 2018
April 17–18, 2018
San Francisco, California United States
With our third annual conference in San Francisco, we want to explore strategies for breaking out: leaving behind generic designs and smelly code base. We want to find out the why, and the how of outstanding and fast experiences, and what we all need to know today, to be more productive and make smarter decisions tomorrow.
CHI 2018
April 21 — August 26, 2018
Montreal, Canada
The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is the premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction. For first-time attendees, CHI is a place where researchers and practitioners gather from across the world to discuss the latest in interactive technology. We are a multicultural community from highly diverse backgrounds who together investigate new and creative ways for people to interact.
Europe
Bulgaria Web Summit 2018
April 14, 2018
Sofia, Bulgaria
Front-end, Back-end, UX, Design, Privacy, eHealth, WebVR, IoT and Ethereum professionals and amateurs under one roof.
ProfsoUX 18
April 14, 2018
Saint Petersburg, Russia
ProfsoUX is the #1 conference for User Experience professionals in Russia. It is organised by the local non-for-profit community of UX professionals since 2012.
Yggdrasil 2018
April 23–24, 2018
Sandefjord, Norway
Ergonomics & Human Factors 2018
April 23, 2018
Birmingham, England
May
North America
99U Conference
May 9–11, 2018
New York, NY United States
The 99U Conference is a one-of-a-kind live experience that inspires creative professionals to bring their ideas to life and shape the future of the industry.
Awwwards Conference San Francisco
May 10–11, 2018
San Francisco, California United States
Two exciting days with some of the most influential speakers of the industry, who inspire, teach, and guide us as we face the many challenges and opportunities which lie ahead in the future of the web.
UXPA Boston
May 20, 2018
Boston, Massachusetts United States
DesignThinkers 2018 Vancouver
May 29–30, 2018
Vancouver, Canada
For 19 years, the Association of Registered Graphic Designers has hosted the annual DesignThinkers Conference. Our mission is to gather diverse perspectives to explore the processes of design and creativity.
Europe
UX Salon 2018
May 6–7, 2018
Tel-Aviv, Israel
#btconf / beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2018
May 7–9, 2018
Düsseldorf, Germany
Beyond tellerrand is an affordable event about web design, development, creativity, design and much more.
UX Riga
May 17–18, 2018
Riga, Latvia
UX Riga conference is an international 2 day event of inspiration and craft for digital product designers, UX proffesionals, IT and product managers as well as developers and anyone who cares about their customer experience and believes that delightful online experiences help to reach outstanding business results.
✦ UXLx 2018
May 22–25, 2018
Lisbon, Portugal
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.
✦ UX London 2018
May 23–25, 2018
London, England
We’re absolutely thrilled to announce that UX London is returning for its 10th year in 2018.
Elsewhere
UXConf BR 2018
May 18–19, 2018
Porto Alegre, Brazil
UXPH 2018: Navigating Design Crossroads
May 26–27, 2018
Taguig, Philippines
UXPH2018 Design Conference is a collaborative conference that showcases the possible applications of Design Thinking in technology, business, health, government, and many other fields. It brings together design professionals, UX practitioners, and design stakeholders of these sectors to participate in a dialogue on how Design Thinking can be applied and how it can benefit The Philippines.
June
North America
GI 2018
June 8–11, 2018
Toronto, Canada
Graphics Interface (GI) 2018, the 44th annual conference. Agraphics track and an HCI track having equal weights in the conference. Graphics Interface offers a unique venue for a meeting of minds working on computer graphics and interactive techniques.
Enterprise UX 2018
June 13–15, 2018
San Francisco, California United States
Enterprise UX helped bring into focus where we were as a UX team, and as a company. And provided direction to make change
An Event Apart Boston 2018
June 25–27, 2018
Boston, Massachusetts United States
An Event Apart Boston is two days of sessions from 12 speakers with intense focus on digital design, UX, content, code, and more. Following the two-day conference comes a full day, A Day Apart, with a single speaker diving deeply into one important topic.
Smashing Conference Toronto 2018
June 26–27, 2018
Toronto, Canada
What’s the best way to learn? By observing designers and developers working live. For our new conference in Toronto, all speakers aren’t allowed to use any slides at all. Welcome SmashingConf #noslides, a brand new conference in Toronto, full of interactive live sessions, showing how web designers design and how web developers build — including setup, workflow, design thinking, naming conventions and everything in-between.
Europe
Product Camp 2018
June 7–9, 2018
Gdynia, Poland
Likely the biggest, hopefully the coolest ;) product conference in CEE.
✦ UX STRAT :: Europe
June 10–12, 2018
Amsterdam, Netherlands
UX STRAT Europe 2018 will take place in Amsterdam on June 10–12, 2018, at the spacious, comfortable Royal Institute for the Tropics. There will be one day of workshops, followed by two days of single-track conference presentations.
✦ UX Scotland 2018
June 13–15, 2018
Edinburgh, Scotland
The conference for the UX, service design and digital communities welcoming national and international participants to Scotland
EICS 2018
June 19–22, 2018
Paris, France
EICS 2018 is the tenth international conference devoted to engineering usable and effective interactive computing systems.
IDC 2018 — Interaction Design and Children
June 19–22, 2018
Trondheim, Norway
ACM IDC is the premier venue for research addressing the design, development and use of interactive technologies for children.
Elsewhere
DIS 2018
June 9–13, 2018
Hong Kong, China
The ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) is the premier international arena where designers and computer scientists meet to debate and shape the future of interactive systems design and practice.
TVX’18
June 26–28, 2018
Seoul, Korea
ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video
UXPA 2018
June 26–28, 2018
Rio Mar, Puerto Rico
UXPA 2018 Conference covers topics such as designing experiences that demonstrate the vision and problem-solving skills inherent in our profession, exploring the differences between leadership and management and understanding how a title doesn’t make a leader, acknowledging other fields and professions that can inform our professional growth, leveraging our personal experiences with leadership to help others develop influence in their organizations, and exploring the need for everyone to demonstrate leadership and ways to make that happen.
July
North America
HCI International 2018
July 15–20, 2018
Las Vegas, Nevada United States
Design and Content Conference 2018
July 25–27, 2018
Vancouver, Canada
At the Design and Content conference we’ll team up and learn from industry leaders how we craft experiences and tell stories that shape the future of the web. A day of workshops, two days of talks, and some amazing extras.
An Event Apart Washington DC 2018
July 30 — August 1, 2018
Washington DC, United States
An Event Apart Washington DC: Special Edition is a three-day conference with 18 sessions and an intense focus on digital design, UX, content, code, and more.
Elsewhere
UMAP 2018
July 8–11, 2018
Singapore
UMAP — User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization — is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users, to groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information.
International Conference of eXperience Design 2018
July 18–22, 2018
Beijing, China
August
North America
✦ UX Week 2018
August 21–24, 2018
San Francisco, California United States
Design professionals from all over the world gather for four days of community, inspiration and skills building. Now in its 15th year, UX Week delivers new tools you can put to use immediately.
An Event Apart Chicago 2018
August 27–29, 2018
Chicago, Illinois United States
An Event Apart Chicago is two days of sessions from 12 speakers with intense focus on digital design, UX, content, code, and more. Following the two-day conference comes a full day, A Day Apart, with a single speaker diving deeply into one important topic.
Elsewhere
UX Australia 2018
August 28–31, 2018
Melbourne, Australia
UX Australia is a 4 day conference about everything user experience; with 2 days of workshops and 2 days of conference presentations.
September
North America
✦ UX STRAT :: USA
September 16–18, 2018
Providence, Rhode Island United States
UX STRAT conferences are curated for UX professionals who want to develop a more strategic approach to their product and service design programs.
Europe
✦ EuroIA
September 2018
Dublin, Ireland
The EuroIA summit is Europe’s leading Information Architecture and User Experience conference.
MobileHCI 2018
September 3–6, 2018
Barcelona, Spain
20th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services.
Design Matters 18
September 26–27, 2018
Copenhagen, Denmark
Design Matters is a conference on Digital Design in Copenhagen. It brings together design practitioners from the best and most happening companies around the world for 2 days of talks, discussions, workshops and socializing.
October
North America
An Event Apart Orlando 2018
October 8–10, 2018
Orlando, Florida United States
An Event Apart Orlando: Special Edition is a three-day conference with 18 sessions and an intense focus on digital design, UX, content, code, and more.
Midwest UX Conference 2018
October 11–13, 2018
Chicago, Illinois United States
Adobe MAX 2018
October 13–17, 2018
Los Angeles, California United States
XD Immersive
October 25–26, 2018
San Francisco, California United States
The premier international conference dedicated to immersive experience design
Europe
NordiCHI 2018
October 1–3, 2018
Oslo, Norway
The biannual conference, NordiCHI, is the main Nordic forum for Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research. NordiCHI addresses the field broadly and is a meeting place for researchers from academia and industry, designers, practitioners, educators and others working within HCI and related disciplines.
UX-DAY Mannheim
October 11, 2018
Mannheim, Germany
UIST 2018
October 14–17, 2018
Berlin, Germany
The ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) is the premier forum for innovations in human-computer interfaces. Sponsored by ACM special interest groups on computer-human interaction (SIGCHI) and computer graphics (SIGGRAPH), UIST brings together people from diverse areas including graphical & web user interfaces, tangible & ubiquitous computing, virtual & augmented reality, multimedia, new input & output devices, and CSCW. The intimate size and intensive program make UIST an ideal opportunity to exchange research results and ideas.
World Usability Congress 2018
October 16–18, 2018
Graz, Austria
We talk about Usability, User Experience (UX) & Customer Experience Management (CX).
Webdagene 2018
October 17–19, 2018
Oslo, Norway
**NEW** push.conference 2018
October 19–20, 2018
Munich, Germany
Join 600 UX professionals and creative developers for two great days on innovative experience design in Munich! Enjoy 18 talks, project exhibition, failure slam, workshops and delicious home made cake!
ASSSETS 2018
October 22 — November 24, 2018
Galway, Ireland
The 20th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. The ASSETS conference explores the design, evaluation, and use of computing and information technologies to benefit people with disabilities and older adults.
Elsewhere
**NEW** UXINDIA2018: Being Human by Design
October 4–6, 2018
Bangalore, India
UX INDIA is India’s biggest international conference on User Experience Design at Bangalore
CHI PLAY 2018
October 28–31, 2018
Melbourne, Australia
An international and interdisciplinary conference (by ACM SIGCHI). For researchers and professionals across all areas of play, games and human-computer interaction (HCI). We call this area “player-computer interaction.”
November
North America
CSCW 2018
November 3–7, 2018
Jersey City, New Jersey United States
The 21st ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. CSCW is the premier venue for research in the design and use of technologies that affect groups, organizations, communities, and networks. Bringing together top researchers and practitioners, CSCW explores the technical, social, material, and theoretical challenges of designing technology to support collaborative work and life activities.
UI23
November 12–14, 2018
Boston, Massachusetts, US
Imagine eight incredible full-day, master-grade workshops led by top industry experts. You don’t have to imagine it, because you can be part of UI23.
Europe
UX Brighton 2018 – Advancing Research
November 2, 2018
Brighton, UK
Join us for our 8th annual conference, where we’ll be taking a deep dive into research — looking beyond traditional methods to tackle everything from how research can inform strategy tobuilding research teams. From designing surveys that don’t suckto researching for new technologies.
Elsewhere
**NEW** Interaction Latin America 2018
November 15–17, 2018
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Interaction Latin America 2018 follows the moment of expanding the geographical boundaries of “South America” to “Latin America” and also proposes to expand the boundaries of Interaction Design. The event intends to stimulate the disciplines and related themes discussion that are increasingly essential to Interaction Design, beyond the UX practices and processes.
December
North America
An Event Apart San Francisco 2018
December 10–12, 2018
San Francisco, California United States
An Event Apart San Francisco is two days of sessions from 12 speakers with intense focus on digital design, UX, content, code, and more. Following the two-day conference comes a full day, A Day Apart, with a single speaker diving deeply into one important topic.
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