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.
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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.
UXCamp DC 2019
January 12, 2019 ✈ Washington, DC, United States
UX Vietnam Festival 2019
January 13–14, 2019 ✈ Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam
Invisible Talks 2019
January 17, 2019 ✈ San Francisco, California, United States
Toronto Design Offsite Festival
January 18–27, 2019 ✈ Toronto, Canada
You Got This 2019
January 19, 2019 ✈ London, United Kingdom
Interaction Design Education Summit 2019 (IxDA)
February 3–4, 2019 ✈ Seattle, Washington, United States
Interaction 19 (IxDA)
February 4–10, 2019 ✈ Seattle, Washington, United States
Outcome 2019 (Content Strategy and UX)
February 9, 2019 ✈ Chandigarh, India
UXI Live 2019
February 11, 2019 ✈ Rishon Lezion, Hamerkaz, Israel
Webstock 2019
February 12–16, 2019 ✈ Wellington, New Zealand (unconfirmed)
Sustainable UX 2019: design vs. climate change
February 12, 2019 ✈ Worldwide (Online)
Digital Thinkers Conference 2019 (Awwwards)
February 14–15, 2019 ✈ Amsterdam, Netherlands
UXistanbul Conference 2019
February 19, 2019 ✈ Istanbul, Turkey
Konference UXZ praxe 2019
February 19, 2019 ✈ Prague, Czech Republic
The UX Conference 2019
February 21, 2019 ✈ London, United Kingdom
UX Thailand 2019
February 23–24, 2019 ✈ Bangkok, Thailand
World IA Day 2019 (Information Architecture)
February 23, 2019 ✈ Multiple locations globally
Experience Design Week
February 25–27, 2019 ✈ Denver, Colorado, United States
Design Indaba
February 27–March 1, 2019 ✈ Cape Town, South Africa
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ProfsoUX 19
March 2, 2019 ✈ Saint Petersburg, Russia
An Event Apart Seattle 2019
March 4–6, 2019 ✈ Seattle, Washington, United States
Bogota Design Festival
March 5–9, 2019 ✈ Bogota, Colombia
Service Design in Government 2019
March 6–8, 2019 ✈ Edinburgh, Scotland
SXSW Festival 2019
March 9–16, 2019 ✈ Austin, Texas, United States
UX Camp Brighton 2019
March 9, 2019 ✈ Brighton, England
UX Salon 2019
March 10–11, 2019 ✈ Tel-Aviv, Israel
ConveyUX 2019
March 12–13, 2019 ✈ Seattle, Washington, United States
Pixel Up 2019 (design, content, research)
March 11–13, 2019 ✈ Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
IAC 2019 (Information Architecture Conference)
March 12–17, 2019 ✈ Orlando, Florida, United States
Design Research 2019
March 13–15, 2019 ✈ Sydney, Australia
Booster Conference 2019
March 13–15, 2019 ✈ Bergen, Norway
IUI 2019
March 17–20, 2019 ✈ Los Angeles, California, United States
Design Thinking & Innovation Week
March 18–22, 2019 ✈ London, UK
UX Copenhagen 2019: Consent & Privacy
March 18–19, 2019 ✈ Copenhagen, Denmark
GamesUR 2019
March 19, 2019 ✈ San Francisco, California United States
UpFront 2019
March 22, 2019 ✈ Manchester, United Kingdom
Health Experience Design Conference 2019
April 2–3, 2019 ✈ Boston, Massachusetts, United States
University of Illinois WebCon 2019
April 3–5, 2019 ✈ Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, United States
UX Insight 2019
April 3–4, 2019 ✈ Utrecht, Netherlands
AIGA Design Conference 2019
April 4–6, 2019 ✈ Pasadena, California, United States
The Ecommerce Design Summit 2019
April 4–5, 2019 ✈ London, Great Britain
Web à Québec 2019
April 9–11, 2019 ✈ Quebec, Canada
Creative South 2019
April 11–13, 2019 ✈ Columbus, Georgia United States
FinTech Design Summit 2019
April 12, 2019 ✈ London, United Kingdom
Smashing Magazine Conference 2019
April 16–17, 2019 ✈ San Francisco, California, United States
UXD Healthcare 2019
April 17–18, 2019 ✈ London, United Kingdom
Confab 2019
April 23–26, 2019 ✈ Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Front End Design Conference 2019
April 24–26, 2019 ✈ St. Petersburg, Florida, United States
OFFF Barcelona
April 25–27 ✈ Barcelona, Spain
UX Burlington 2019
May 3, 2019 ✈ Burlington, Vermont, United States
CHI 2019 (Human-Computer Interaction)
May 4–9, 2019 ✈ Glasgow, Scotland
HOW Design Live 2019
May 7–10, 2019 ✈ Chicago, Illinois, United States
Digital Thinkers Conf 2019 (Awwwards)
May 9–10, 2019 ✈ San Francisco, California, United States
UXPA Conference
May 10, 2019 ✈ Boston, Massachusetts United States
Beyond Tellerrand Düsseldorf 2019
May 13–15, 2019 ✈ Düsseldorf, Germany
UX in the City 2019: Manchester
May 14–15, 2019 ✈ Manchester, United Kingdom
UXConf BR 2019
May 17–18, 2019 ✈ Porto Alegre, Brazil
UXLx: User Experience Lisbon 2019
May 21–24, 2019 ✈ Lisbon, PT
Mind The Product 2019 (Product Design)
May 22–24, 2019 ✈ Hamburg, Germany
DesignThinkers 2019
May 28–29, 2019 ✈ Vancouver, Canada
Graphics Interface 2019
May 28–31, 2019 ✈ Kingston, Ontario, Canada
UX London 2019
May 29–31, 2019 ✈ London, England
DesignOps Global Conference 2019
May 30–31 , 2019 ✈ Manchester, United Kingdom
Agile & Beyond 2019
May 30–31 , 2019 ✈ Detroit, Michigan, United States
UX Camp Amsterdam 2019
June 1, 2019 ✈ Amsterdam, Netherlands
Webinale 2019
June 3–7, 2019 ✈ Berlin, Germany
Enterprise UX 2019 (Rosenfeld Media)
June 3–5, 2019 ✈ San Francisco, California, United States
FrontUtah 2019 (UX & Product Management)
June 6–7, 2019 ✈ Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Strive: the 2019 UX Research Conference
June 6–9, 2019 ✈ Toronto, Canada
By Design Conference 2019
June 8, 2019 ✈ Bratislava, Slovakia
UMAP 2019 (User Modeling & Personalization)
June 9–12, 2019 ✈ Larnaca, Cyprus
IDC 2019 (Interaction Design & Children)
June 12–15, 2019 ✈ Boise, Idaho, United States
Pervasive Displays Symposium 2019
June 12–14, 2019 ✈ Palermo, Italy
UX Scotland 2019
June 12–14, 2019 ✈ Edinburgh, Scotland
UX Strat 2019
June 17–19, 2019 ✈ Amsterdam, Netherlands
Leading Design 2019
June 19–20, 2019 ✈ New York City, New York, United States
DIS 2019 (Designing Interactive Systems)
June 23–28, 2019 ✈ San Diego, California, United States
Future of Branding Week 2019
June 24–28, 2019 ✈ London, United Kingdom
UXPA 2019
June 25–27, 2019 ✈ Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
Symposium on Eye Tracking Research 2019
June 25–28, 2019 ✈ Denver, Colorado, United States
Smashing Magazine Conference 2019
June 25–26, 2019 ✈ Toronto, Canada
ADDC 2019 (App Design & Development Conference)
June 26–28, 2019 ✈ Barcelona, Spain
Experience Fighters 2019
June, 2019 ✈ Madrid, Spain
Car HMi Europe 2019
July 1–2, 2019 ✈ Berlin, Germany
UXD Healthcare 2019
July 4–5, 2019 ✈ Amsterdam, Netherlands
World Haptics 2019
July 9–12, 2019 ✈ Tokyo, Japan
Product Management Festival 2019
June 17–18, 2019 ✈ Singapore
HCI International 2019
July 26–31, 2019 ✈ Orlando, Florida, United States
UX Camp Hamburg
July 27, 2019 ✈ Hamburg, Germany
Digital Product by Design
July 29–31, 2019 ✈ Los Angeles LA, United States
An Event Apart 2019
July 29–31, 2019 ✈ Washington DC, United States
That Conference 2019
August 5–8, 2019 ✈ Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, United States
UX & Digital Design Week 2019
August 12–16, 2019 ✈ London, United Kingdom
ConveyUX Boston
August 16, 2019 ✈ Boston MA, United States
An Event Apart 2019
August 26–28, 2019 ✈ Chicago, Illinois, United States
UX Australia 2019
August, 2019 ✈ Melbourne, Australia
Interact 2019
September 2–6, 2019 ✈ Paphos, Cyprus
Joint Futures
September 3–5, 2019 ✈ Helsinki, Finland
Usability Professionals 2019
September 8–11, 2019 ✈ Hamburg, Germany
Smashing Magazine Conference 2019
September 9–10, 2019 ✈ Freiburg, Germany
Design Matters 2019
September 18–19, 2019 ✈ Copenhagen, Denmark
Big Design 2019
September 19–21, 2019 ✈ Dallas, Texas, United States
Digital Thinkers Conference 2019 (Awwwards)
September 25–27, 2019 ✈ New York, New York, United States
Euro IA 2019
September 26–29, 2019 ✈ Riga, Latvia
MobileHCI 2019
October 1–4, 2019 ✈ Taipei, Taiwan
Canvas Conference 2019
October 10, 2019 ✈ Birmingham, England
Midwest UX
October 10–12, 2019 ✈ Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
Smashing Magazine Conference 2019
October 15–16, 2019 ✈ New York City, New York United States
World Usability Congress 2019
October 16–17, 2019 ✈ Graz, Styria, Austria
Amuse Conf 2019
October 16–19, 2019 ✈ Budapest, Hungary
Seattle Interactive Conference 2019
October 17–18, 2019 ✈ Seattle, Washington, United States
An Event Apart 2019
October 28–30, 2019 ✈ Denver, Colorado, United States
Interaction Latin America 2019 (IxDA)
October 31 — November 2, 2019 ✈ Medellín, Colombia
JAM London 2019
October 31 — November 01 ✈ London, United Kingdom
Adobe MAX 2019
November 2–6, 2019 ✈ Los Angeles, California, United States
Beyond Tellerrand Berlin 2019
November 4–6, 2019 ✈ Berlin, Germany
Product Management Festival 2019
November 14–15, 2019 ✈ Zurich, Switzerland
An Event Apart 2019
December 9–11, 2019 ✈ San Francisco, California, United States
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.