33 best UX conferences, events and summits in 2020

UX 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 33 best UX conferences to attend in 2020. What are the criteria used to rank these top UX conferences out of the many UX 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 UX conferences. These 2020 UX conferences are ideal for anyone involved with user experience, including UI/UX designers, UX Researcher, web designers, graphic designers, and front-end 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 33 best UX conferences in 2020 from all around the world.

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1. UXCamp DC 2020

UXCamp DC is a conference for people who love design. It is an intense day with 24 45-minute sessions and workshops presented by thinkers and doers from all levels of design experience from beginners to seasoned practitioners. It is a day of gathering for people who are passionate about creating great experiences for people.

Date: Jan 18, 2020

Location:  Washington DC, Washington

Ticket prices: Free – $50

Free tickets: No

Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No

 

2. Outcome Conference

A design conference that talks about startups, products, UX and design from a storytelling perspective. Topics include user research, design systems, taxonomy and architecture, brand voice, customer success, business goals, onboarding, dark patterns, and churn rate.

Dates: Feb 8, 2020

Location: Chandigarh, India

Ticket prices: $35 – $56

Free tickets: Yes, for Outcome members

Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No

 

3. UXistanbul

The first UX conference of Turkey that gathers UX and Usability professionals from the world’s leading companies in Istanbul, to share their experiences. Topics include user research & strategic research, strategic design, actionable insights, DesignOps, product development, UX, CX and much more.

Date: Feb 18, 2020

Location: Istanbul, Turkey

Ticket prices: $170 – $250

Free tickets: No

Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No

 

4. Experience Design Week 2020

Expanding the boundaries of User Experience and more. Topics include CX, UX, CI, experience design, product management, brand management, business strategy, design thinking, and human-centered design. Experience Design Week includes 24+ Workshops and Design sprints; Dive right into some interactive learning with your peers and the executives who do business best. Immerse yourself in the next generation of experience design with expert keynotes, experience touch-points, and a comprehensive Design Drive. Attendees shall learn from the best during their hands-on site tour day in the Mile High City.

Dates: Feb 24 – 26, 2020

Location: Denver, Colorado

Ticket prices: $1649- $3999

Free tickets: No

Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No

 

5. ProfsoUX

This is the #1 Conference for UX professionals in Russia. Keep abreast of UX-trends: research methods, visualization, tools. Understand where to move at different stages of development yourself, how to develop a team/business. Get to know UX colleagues, look at the UX job market. Besides traditional UX topics, there will be talks on further development as a UX professional, complicated UX tasks and projects (including scientific research projects), adjacent areas: (psychology, anthropology, urban studies), business demand for UX competencies, specifics of government projects, using mistakes as a tool, automation of design, visualisation and case stories.

Date: Feb 29, 2020

Location: Saint Petersburg, Russia

Ticket prices: $44 – $155

Free tickets: No

Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No

 

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6. The UX Conference – London

The UX Conference is a design conference that’s not about buzzwords, but collaboration between designers. Insightful talks on day 1 and hands-on workshops on day 2 – short & sweet. Plus excellent prizes to win from The UX Conference partners. The theme of the conference on March 2-3 2020 is a collaboration between UX, UI and content designers. Invited are amazing speakers with experience working at Abstract, TfL, OpenTable, Dyson, The Paciello Group, Nike, Shopify, 1Password, Government Digital Service, Airbnb, InVision and others.

Date: Mar 2 – 3, 2020

Location: London, UK

Ticket prices: $50- $995

Free tickets: No

Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No

 

7. Convey UX

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. Explore how UX really gets done. Convey UX includes keynote sessions with top designers, speed networking events, networking parties, several interactive UX workshops, project exhibitions, stories from UX designers and more.

Dates: Mar 3 – 5, 2020

Location: Seattle, Washington

Ticket prices: $1495

Free tickets: No

Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No

 

8. UX Copenhagen

What is influence in UX? This is the subject UX Copenhagen has given our speakers for 2020: “Influence & Designing for Good”. Some of the subjects 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 them for two days filled with superb content from 20+ speakers, hands-on workshops, inspiration, networking, new knowledge, and new insights.

Date: Mar 30, 2020

Location: Copenhagen, Denmark

Ticket prices: $75 – $950

Free tickets: No

Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No

 

9. 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

 

10. UX Burlington

An annual single-day design conference, focused on what it really takes to build great digital user experiences on the web, in apps, and beyond. In the spirit of this year’s theme, speakers will tell entertaining—perhaps even horrifying—stories about what went wrong, how the hindsight manifested itself, and what lessons they learned and can share with our audience of UX practitioners. In a nutshell, there will be talks that include practical and educational information about any aspect of User Experience but are framed from the perspective of 20/20 Hindsight.

Date: May 1, 2020

Location: Burlington, USA

Ticket prices: TBA

Free tickets: No

Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No

 

11. Pixel Up!

Pixel Up! is Africa’s premier user experience and design conference. It involves 3 days of learning, connecting, and discovery with local and international speakers in beautiful Cape Town. Attendees will learn from a diverse group of speakers including authors, local and international designers, as well as rising stars. They’ll deliver thought-provoking talks and energizing workshops to improve your craft and help advance your career.

Dates: May 4 – 6, 2020

Location: Cape Town, South Africa

Ticket prices: $290 – $550

Free tickets: No

Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No

 

12. UX Conf – Brazil

UX Conf is one of the biggest User Experience events in Brazil. It is a two-day conference about everything UX-related. UX Conf Brazil makes room for both experienced professionals and students. In the theme of UXConf BR 2020: Design with Purpose. Every year, they seek to capture topics that are “hot” in community conversations. In 2019, the theme was culture and leadership through design. For 2020, UX Conf Brazil chose something more comprehensive and that affects organizations as a whole, their purpose. Of course, their scope revolves around the work of UX Designers, Interaction Designers, Service Designers, Researchers in UX, but neither is it restricted to that. How to go one step further as a group? Find out at UX Conf Brazil.

Date: May 15 – 16, 2020

Location: Porto Alegre, Brazil

Ticket prices: $100 – $165

Free tickets: No

Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No

 

13. UXLx

UXLx is Europe’s biggest UX training conference. Four days of inspiring talks and hands-on workshops featuring top industry speakers. UXLx is a premier User Experience Conference, and their 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.

Dates: May 19 – 22, 2020

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Ticket prices: $470 – $1900

Free tickets: No

Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No

 

14. ACE!

ACE! brings a mix of foreign and Polish speakers at the top of their fields. They bring innovative and actionable ideas to the IT community and showcase some of the best practices that are working. Past speakers include many famous authors and innovators of key design and software practices used globally. The Building Better Products track that features Lean Startup, LeanUX, Design Thinking, and Customer Development topics. This track is for everyone involved in creating products, including Product Managers, UI and Interaction Designers, and UX Designers & Researchers. There’s a workshop day so that attendees can apply new skills and experiment with new ideas. Attendees will learn how to use gathered knowledge to make the products that people want.

Dates: May 20 – 22, 2020

Location: Kraków, Poland

Ticket prices: $105 – $450+

Free tickets: No

Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No

 

15. UX London 2020

UX London is a fantastic three-day UX event for UX designers, combining inspirational talks with in-depth workshops presented by some of the industry’s biggest names. This design conference brings engaging industry leaders from around the world to present a combination of inspirational talks and lively, hands-on workshops.

Dates: May 27 – 29, 2020

Location: London, UK

Ticket prices: $1380 – $1430

Free tickets: No

Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No

 

16. Front Utah Conference

Front is the product conference for UX designers and product managers. It’s a practitioner’s conference. Attending the Front Conference, you’ll get to meet and learn from people that have been building digital experiences for years. Listen to leaders in the UX and product design industry that are making the biggest impact and working with high performing teams. Learn ways that you can advance in your career through soft and hard skills that will help you compete in this competitive tech industry.

Date: May 28 – 29, 2020

Location: Salt Lake City, Utah

Ticket prices: $110- $665

Free tickets: No

Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No

 

17. UX Camp Europe

UX Camp Europe is one of the largest BarCamps for User Experience Professionals with 500+ active participants from all over the world and meet in Berlin once a year. The event is held since 2009, planned by a team of local UX enthusiasts and run during the weekend. It is also a great opportunity to chat with fellow campers from all over the world about their favorite food and tastiest UX recipes.

Date: May 30 – 31, 2020

Location: Berlin, Germany

Ticket prices: Free.

Free tickets: Yes, for ticket lottery winners

Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No

 

18. Fluxible

Fluxible is Canada’s premier UX conference. It is a gathering of people who share an interest in user experience design and the fields with which it intersects. Fluxible is an inclusive, cooperative environment where everyone is welcomed, open dialogue is encouraged, and all perspectives are appreciated. You’ll learn new skills through hands-on deep dives with expert instructors.

Date: Jun 1 – 7, 2020

Location: Waterloo, Canada

Ticket prices: TBA

Free tickets: TBA

Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No

 

19. UXR Collective Conference

UXR Collective conference brings together people from across the globe who are committed to championing their users, surfacing better insights, and bettering the tech ecosystem. You’ll build your skills with our hands-on Workshops from brilliant UX researchers like Vivianne Castillo. Whether you’re looking to break into UXR (User Experience Research) or you’re a senior practitioner, there’s a Track to help you level up your practice. Our one-day Tracks consist of curated talks based on specific themes relevant to the Track you choose. Tracks include Research Foundations, UXR  Team of One, UXR Frontiers, the Science behind UXR and Leadership in Research.

Date: Jun 3 – 5, 2020

Location: Toronto, Canada

Ticket prices: $635 – $1262

Free tickets: No

Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No

 

 

22. UX Days 2020

UX is a 2-days conference entirely dedicated to the user experience, articulated in the form of workshops and conferences. In 2019, the event brought together no less than 900 participants, as many curious smiles and twice as many passionate looks. Now an essential part of UX calendars, the event attracts professionals from all walks of life interested in user experience methods, design thinking, agility, and digital project management, as well as serious games, sprint design and more.

Date: Jun 18 – 19, 2020

Location: Paris, France

Ticket prices: TBA

Free tickets: TBA

Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No

 

23. UX+ Conference

UX+ is the largest user experience conference in Asia, tailored to professionals and students of design and technology. UX+ aims to be a distinctively informative and inspiring conference, showcasing the various approaches in UX, practiced by Product Designers, Interaction Designers, Behavioral Scientists, UX Researchers and Strategists, Product Managers, Developers, Startup Founders, Creative Technologists and Innovators.

Date: TBA

Location: TBA

Ticket prices: TBA

Free tickets: No

Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No

 

24. UX & Digital Design Week

UX & Digital Design Week will teach you how to create experiences that people will fall in love with. Get inspiration for your current projects and advice on how to build a design team of your dreams. You’ll find out the secrets of what makes products successful and what mistakes companies made when they were building new services. This design conference is meant for Creative directors and heads of design departments, Digital product designers, UX and visual designers, Design managers and team leads, UX researchers and analysts, Service designers and product owners

Date: Aug 10, 2020

Location: London, UK

Ticket prices: $2890

Free tickets: No

Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No

 

 

26. SmashingConf – Freiburg

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: Sep 7 – 9, 2020

Location: Freiburg, Germany

Ticket prices: $445 – $990

Free tickets: No

Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No

 

27. UXLat 2020

Meet the latest UX trends through its main references, in this two-day event that will bring together members of the UXPA (User Experience Professionals Association) in Ecuador. At UXLat 2020, you can participate in UX workshops, focused on design and research, which will allow you to acquire new knowledge and practical skills. You shall learn from the first source what are the main UX trends in the world.

Date: Sep 17, 2020

Location: Quito, Ecuador

Ticket prices: $100

Free tickets: No

Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No

 

 

31. UX New Zealand

The event UX New Zealand is Aotearoa’s biggest dedicated UX conference. Whether you’re new to UX or a seasoned professional, you’ll gain valuable insights and inspiration – and have fun along the way!

Date: TBA

Location: Wellington, NZ

Ticket prices: TBA

Free tickets: TBA

Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No

 

32. DesignUp

DesignUp is also Asia’s premier Conference for Design in Tech, and a series of diverse events bringing practitioners, leaders & learners together, fusing insights from East & West. DesignUp isn’t just another UX/UI Conference. DesignUp showcases stories across the Design-in-Tech spectrum – shinning the light on tales of transformation, growth, and impact, by Design: individual, or career growth, social impact, product transformation, impactful tools & techniques, to creating change across government and civic services. An exciting lineup of speakers is expected this year.

Date: TBA

Location: Bangalore, India

Ticket prices: TBA

Free tickets: TBA

Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No

 

33. CanUX

CanUX is Canada’s premier UX conference. It is currently in its 11th edition. CanUX (pronounced “canucks”, like the hockey team) is an independent, locally-grown, non-profit, volunteer-driven event created for people who want to learn and share their expertise about user experience, and how our profession contributes to making things work better for everyone. The event covers topics like user research, usability, information architecture, interaction design, service design, and just about everything related to the creation of compelling products, services and experiences. In terms of format, CanUX is a weekend plenary (two-day single track) conference featuring fantastic speakers from all over the world. The conference is preceded by a day of hands-on workshops. CanUX is the longest-running and largest annual experience design event in Canada, and is constantly looking for ways to create one of the most inclusive, affordable, world-class UX conferences.

Date: Nov 12 – 15, 2020

Location: Ottawa, Canada

Ticket prices: TBA

Free tickets: Yes, for volunteers

Travel grants / Diversity Scholarship: No