Frontend conferences are a great way to meet like-minded individuals and people in the industry. Attending conferences help you meet people from different geographic locations to share knowledge. In 2020, there will be over 200 design conferences all around the world. This list includes a selection of 14 best frontend conferences in 2020. What are the criteria used to rank these top conferences out of the many frontend conferences out there? Criteria include: conference popularity, number of years running, speaker lineup, location, and workshops.
Take note of the dates, the locations and plan a trip to these frontend conferences. These 2020 frontend conferences are ideal for anyone interested in frontend, including UI/UX designers, web developers, web designers, graphic designers, and frontend developers. For those who can’t afford the conference ticket fees, some of these design conferences provide free tickets. Some design conferences have diversity scholarships, offering travel grants for underrepresented to designers. Below are the 14 best frontend conferences in 2020 from all around the world.
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1. HalfStack Conference 2020
An authentic, high-value experience for attendees and sponsors focused on UI-centric JavaScript and web development. The priority for HalfStack is the attendee experience, with great food, drinks, talks, swag, and community. HalfStack is a UI-centric, one-day single-track conference hosted in a relaxed environment. HalfStack carefully curates talks that inspire and inform the audience in a highly interactive and entertaining manner. An intimate feeling where each attendee has time to meet one another.
Date: Jan 17, 2020
Location: Phoenix, AZ, USA
Tickets: TBA
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
2. Front End North 2020
Front End North is a welcoming one-day, single-track front end conference for developers, designers and others who work on the web. Front End North is returning on 7th February 2020 at The Crucible in Sheffield, UK. Hosted by the organizers of the Front End Sheffield meetup, FEN is a grassroots, low-cost conference with a mixture of established and new speakers.
Dates: Feb 7, 2020
Location: Sheffield, UK
Ticket prices: $55
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
3. Awwwwards Conference Amsterdam
An event for designers, web developers, digital creatives, and digital dreamers in an iconic city. It brings you the hottest topics and newest technologies on User Experience, UI Design, Web Design and Development, Animation, Technology, Branding, Trends, Creativity and much more. It includes several brilliant workshops and talks from the best creatives around the world.
Dates: Feb 19 – 21, 2020
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Ticket prices: $390 – $890
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
4. FrontConf Munich- Frontend Conference 2020
An international conference focused on front-end concepts and technologies around JS/HTML/CSS and UX. Two tracks of talks by speakers from all over the world. Frontend Conference includes several hands-on interactive workshops and talks from 16 speakers.
Date: Mar 21, 2020
Location: Munich, Germany
Ticket prices: $100- $390
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
5. CSS Conf Columbia
The CSSConf is a worldwide organization dedicated to holding conferences for designers, programmers and web interface creators, with the purpose of connecting the community in different countries.
Date: Mar 21, 2020
Location: Medellín, Colombia
Ticket prices: Sold out
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
6. UIArchConf
A conference and training event for those who work as UI Architects. Here you’ll explore the various aspects of UI Architecture and the massive role a UI architect plays in an organization. Web Javascript, UI, UX, design, process, User Interface, User Experience conference. If you are into design, UX, 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.
Date: Apr 1, 2020
Location: New Orleans, USA
Ticket prices: $400 – $1295
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
7. An Event Apart – Washington
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 we are now and where things are going next. This is a web design conference for UX & front-end experts.
Date: Apr 13 – 17, 2020
Location: Washington DC, Washington
Ticket prices: $600 – $665
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
8. Yggdrasil
Yggdrasil is Norway’s most important design conference for anyone who creates digital user experiences. Insights, experiences, methodology, and tools are shared in a social and particularly pleasant atmosphere. This design conference is interdisciplinary and the participants are information architects, interaction designers, web editors, web designers and related professionals in private and public companies. The goal is to contribute to innovation, professional development, and networking.
Date: Apr 20, 2020
Location: Sandefjord, Norway
Ticket prices: $335- $1225
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
9. SmashingConf – SF
SmashingConf is an inclusive, practical and friendly conference on front-end, design and UX, with CSS/JS techniques, accessibility, performance, privacy, internationalization, designing for mobile, HTML email and real-life case studies. It has friendly, inclusive events that are focused on real-world problems and solutions. SmashingConf focuses on front-end and UX but it will cover everything web, be it UI design or machine learning.
Date: Apr 21, 2020
Location: San Francisco, USA
Ticket prices: $599
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
10. Beyond Tellerrand – Düsseldorf
Beyond Tellerand is an affordable single-track design event where creativity and technology meet. This is an event about web design, web development and more.
Dates: Apr 27 – 29, 2020
Location: Düsseldorf, Germany
Ticket prices: Free – $445
Free tickets: Yes
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
11. Frontend United
Frontend United non-profit, developer-first, community-focused conference. This design conference aims to connect frontend developers and designers from all kinds of backgrounds closer together to share knowledge, experiences, and ideas.
Dates: May 1 – 2, 2020
Location: Minsk, Belarus
Ticket prices: TBA
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
12. webinale
Webinale is the conference for product owners, web designers, and frontend coders. It combines user experience with code and offers a variety of topics that are important for digital professionals nowadays. You shall understand trends in accessibility, progressive web apps, and modern customer journeys. The latest findings from neuromarketing for increased conversions are just some of the topics presented by the speakers at webinale in a practical way. In addition, they provide insights into fascinating digital trends that you shouldn’t miss! As a crossover platform, the webinale frontend conference inspires digitally oriented makers from a variety of disciplines – web designers, developers or product owners – and encourages dialogue and exchange of experience!
Date: May 25 – 29, 2020
Location: Berlin, Germany
Ticket prices: $430- $1225
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
13. SmashingConf – Austin
SmashingConf is an inclusive, practical and friendly conference on front-end, design, and UX, with CSS/JS techniques, accessibility, performance, privacy, internationalization, designing for mobile, HTML email and real-life case studies. It has friendly, inclusive events that are focused on real-world problems and solutions. SmashingConf focuses on front-end and UX but it will cover everything web, be it UI design or machine learning.
Date: Jun 9 – 10, 2020
Location: Austin, USA
Ticket prices: $499 – $998
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
14. Dsgnday
Dsgnday is a full-day frontend conference with eight presentations about web design and user experience. Expect plenty of practical advice on designing for the web—on any device. This year they’re combining Dsgnday with CSS Day; an advanced CSS conference where speakers treat the really geeky CSS stuff.
Date: Jun 11, 2020
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Ticket prices: $360 – $665
Free tickets: No
Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No
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