The best UX and design conferences in 2019 — the definitive guide

A comprehensive list for designers who are looking for design events, meetups, and conferences to attend this year.

Fabricio Teixeira
UX Collective

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A great way of learning more about User Experience and getting in touch with professionals who share the same passion as you is to attend UX Conferences and UX Events happening every year around the globe. Since our 2017 and 2018 lists have received a lot of positive feedback, we decided to bring it back in 2019.

Charge your smartphone, bring some business cards in your pocket, and consider adding one of these design events to your 2019 itinerary.

If there’s any event missing from the list, please add a response at the end. And don’t forget to follow the UX Collective on Twitter and sign up for our weekly newsletter.

User Experience Hong Kong 2019 (UXHK)

February 15–16, 2019 ✈ Hong Kong, China

http://uxhongkong.com/

Konference UXZ praxe 2019

February 19, 2019 ✈ Prague, Czech Republic

IAC 2019 (Information Architecture Conference)

March 12–17, 2019 ✈ Orlando, Florida, United States

Health Experience Design Conference 2019

April 2–3, 2019 ✈ Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Agile & Beyond 2019

May 30–31 , 2019 ✈ Detroit, Michigan, United States

By Design Conference 2019

June 8, 2019 ✈ Bratislava, Slovakia

DIS 2019 (Designing Interactive Systems)

June 23–28, 2019 ✈ San Diego, California, United States

Symposium on Eye Tracking Research 2019

June 25–28, 2019 ✈ Denver, Colorado, United States

Interaction Latin America 2019 (IxDA)

October 31 — November 2, 2019 ✈ Medellín, Colombia

http://ila.ixda.org/2019

Events about creativity and technology

SXSW Interactive
More than a week of music, film and creativity in one single event • Keynotes, workshops and showcases about cutting-edges technologies and ideas • UXers: keep updated on trends for the year
✈ Location: Austin, TX, USA

99u
Two days of talks from creative visionaries • Focused on idea execution rather than idea generation • UXers: if you dream big, listen from successful people how to become one by doing it
✈ Location: New York, NY, USA

Emerge Conference
Two days of conference about world’s challenges and transformational change • For university students and young professionals • UXers: for the young designers who are willing to change the world
✈ Location: Oxford, UK

Offset
One of the world’s most inspirational, educational and vocational conferences for the design and creative industries.
✈ Location: Dublin, Ireland

Forward
Forward brings together the best international and local creative heads, who provide insights into their success stories in an exciting atmosphere. The conference, the centerpiece of the festival, is accompanied by various side events, such as workshops, live art sessions and networking events.
✈ Location: Hamburg, Germany

Internet of Things Events
Papers, demos and workshops about the new frontiers of the Internet • Cutting-edge researches aiming to change the interaction between humans and objects • UXers: learn about upcoming challenges for designing interaction beyond mobile-tablet-browser
✈ Location: multiple cities

Service Design Network Events
2 days of conference for students and professionals • International speakers and cases • UXers: for those who want to design user experiences holistically
✈ Location: multiple cities

The Feast
A conference about innovation to solve the world’s challenges with big names and big ambition • Talks, workshops, hands-on activities and a global dinner party • UXers: you can join the proposed challenges without leaving your hometown
✈ Location: multiple cities

Get together with local UX groups

IxDA
IxDA intends to improve the human condition by advancing the discipline of Interaction Design. IxDA has multiple groups around the globe that organize local events and leverage local knowledge sharing.

UXPA
The User Experience Professionals Association supports people who research, design, and evaluate the user experience of products and services.

Meetup
A great hub to search for local UX events around your area, or even to create your own. Plenty of UX groups that meet regularly in major cities around the world.

Follow events in your area

The links below are updated regularly and display local UX events filtered by city, topic, price and other criteria. Great tool for searching for events in a specific location and date.

Responses (62)

What are your thoughts?

There is a huge event in Ukraine — KRUPA — the biggest interface design conference in Eastern Europe. It’s 3 years old, and this year among other great speakers we will host Don Norman https://prjctr.com.ua/krupa-en

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This list has missed out some great conferences in Asia and Africa:
Design Indaba in Cape Town (27 Feb to 1st March 2019)
UX India (Sometime in October 2019, dates TBD)
DesignUp (Sometime in Late 2019, dates TBD)

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