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Best Design Conferences In Spring 2019

Looking to update your knowledge and connect with other professionals at design conferences in spring? Here's the list of the events including user experience, design, usability and UI topics announced around the world. Find the right one that meets your needs and get ready — it's gonna be a busy season!

Bogotá Design Festival

Date: March 5–8, 2019
Location: Bogotá, Colombia

It is a 4-day event that brings together a n d promotes creativity, innovation and design in all its states, whether in industrial or artisanal objects, artistic, graphic, digital, gastronomic, visual, interior design or fashion. Bogotá Design Festival is a place where the creative industries and design become a transversal subject, that impacts both commercially and culturally, as well as the identity of the city.

Learn more: https://www.bogotadesignfestival.co/

Brainstorm Design 2019

Date: March 5–7, 2019
Location: Singapore, Singapore

Brainstorm Design is a unique new conference dedicated to exploring the increasingly crucial nexus between business and design. The three-day event will be bringing together the FORTUNE 500's most powerful executives and the world's most talented designers.

Learn more: https://www.fortuneconferences.com/brainstorm-design-2019/

Service Design in Government

Date: March 6, 2019
Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom

The original international community event for anyone involved in designing and commissioning public services. The participants will enjoy meeting and learning from their peers and leaders in the industry, leaving with new ideas and skills to improve public services, an increased professional network, and inspiration gained from many useful conversations and interactions.

Learn more: https://govservicedesign.net/2019/

SXSW DESIGN

Date: March 8–13, 2019
Location: Austin, TX, United States

The SXSW Conference provides an opportunity for global professionals at every level to participate, network, and advance their careers. Attendees gain clear ahead-of-the-curve design-related takeaways that they can apply in their professional lives. The majority of sessions in the Design Track are solo presentations.

Learn more: https://www.sxsw.com/conference/design/

UX Salon 2019

Date: March 10–11, 2019
Location: Tel Aviv, Israel

UX Salon is a practical UX training and inspiration event in Tel-Aviv. You are going to enjoy two days of networking and great talks by dedicated design professionals and industry leaders.

Learn more: https://2019.uxsalon.com/

Pixel Up!

Date: March 11, 2019
Location: Cape Town, South Africa

3 days of UX, design, content, and research in Cape Town. 3 days, 16 talks and 2 workshops with authors, speakers, and design leaders who've worked at Google, Pinterest, Shopify, Adobe, eBay, IDEO and more.

Learn more: https://pixelup.co.za/

Source Up! 2019

Date: March 11–12, 2019
Location: Cape Town, South Africa

Level up your web development skills, techniques, and practice. 2 days of UX and product design talks and workshops at South Africa's premier front-end Conference. 8 in-depth talks and 2 full-day, hands-on workshops with authors, front-end consultants, and experts who've worked with Etsy, Google, Microsoft, Slack, and more.

Learn more: https://sourceup.co.za/

Convey UX

Date: March 11–13, 2019
Location: Seattle, WA, United States

There are a lot of different reasons to go to a conference. One of them is the availability of fun and interesting things for you to do when you take a break from the Conference sessions. You may set up your own custom itinerary with the help of 2 Days in Seattle. The neighborhoods surrounding the city center provide a vibrant art and cultural scene.

The program for ConveyUX Seattle is Complete — just check the session list! Also, ConveyUX offers you the opportunity to attend two half-day workshops at no extra cost.

Learn more: https://conveyux.com/

Design Research 2019

Date: March 13, 2019
Location: Sydney, Australia

A three-day event dedicated to design research — from planning and conducting, to analysis and use. This event includes a one-day workshop program and two-day presentation program, and you can purchase tickets for one or both.

Learn more: http://www.uxaustralia.com.au/conferences/design-research-2019

UX in the City: Manchester

Date: March 14, 2019
Location: Manchester, United Kingdom

A hands-on, practical user experience and design conference for the software, web, and mobile community. Returning for its 3rd year, UX in the City: Manchester 2019 will allow participants to connect and learn from their peers and leaders in the industry. Participants will leave with new ideas and skills to improve their user experiences, an increased professional network, and memories of many useful conversations.

Learn more: https://uxinthecity.net/2019/manchester/

UX Copenhagen 2019

Date: March 18–19, 2019
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark

UX Copenhagen is a premium, two-day conference for professionals working with and around user experience design. You will hear about some of the newest trends, presented by a broad and diverse panel of speakers ranging from super gurus to people new to the field. The event will feature startups, and strive to bring in speakers and participants who are taking user experience to a new level.

Learn more: https://uxcopenhagen.com/

Epicurrence

Date: March 18–19, 2019
Location: Breckenridge, CO, United States

The most epic conference for creatives. Come participate in intimate talks, interactive workshops, and lots of active adventure in Breckenridge, CO with hundreds of awesome people.

Learn more: https://www.epicurrence.com/

Health Experience Design Conference 2019

Date: April 2–3, 2019
Location: Boston, MA, United States

The annual HXD conference provides a unique crossroads for a diverse community of researchers, developers, creators, and practitioners to help humanize our health system and accelerate its transformation. Attracting over 500 visionaries across the health ecosystem, this two-day mix of inspiring presentations, workshops, and discussion will help drive real-world change.

Learn more: https://healthexperiencedesign.com/

eCommerce Design Summit

Date: April 4, 2019
Location: London, United Kingdom

The eCommerce Design Summit pulls together the world's most innovative eCommerce platforms, to discuss Product Design, UX and Strategy. The ambition is to create dialogue across the eCommerce community, which emphasizes the importance of customer-centricity within the product development lifecycle.

Learn more: https://ecommercedesignsummit.com/

UX Insight

Date: April 4, 2019
Location: Utrecht, Netherlands

UX Insight is an international event for UX research professionals and anyone interested in the sphere. Focus areas are technology and data, role and purpose, inclusiveness and collaboration. The day before the main conference there will be hands-on workshops to help UX researchers further develop both their hard and soft skills.

Learn more: https://www.uxinsightevent.com/

AIGA Design Conference

Date: April 4–6, 2019
Location: Pasadena, CA, United States

Plan to hear from a diverse line up of designers, artists, entrepreneurs and more. Be ready for a fantastic lineup of speakers reflecting on how culture affects our design work, careers and the world around us.

Want to mix and match topics? No problem. The conference's structure allows you to sample content and move around on breaks. Watch the sessions that interest you most!

Learn more: https://designconference.aiga.org/#!/

Forward Festival Vienna 2019

Date: April 4–6, 2019
Location: Vienna, Austria

Forward Festival takes place in Vienna, Munich, and Zurich and brings together the best national and international 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. The idea behind Forward is to create a festival where the creative community can exchange opinions, inspire and learn from each other.

Learn more: https://forward-festival.com/vienna/overview

Activate Conference 2019

Date: April 4–6, 2019
Location: Baton Rouge, LA, United States

Activate is an event that aims to enrich the local tech community by establishing and furthering the careers of individuals in the web and technology field. The goal of the event is to bring awareness of this field to the young community and build bridges between the future and current workforce in order to increase interest in careers in technology. The 3-day event will include a Hackathon, Workshops, and Speakers that both students and professionals can attend and learn together.

Learn more: http://www.activateconf.com/

UX Days Tokyo

Date: April 5–7, 2019
Location: Tokyo, Japan

A local event devoted to UX design for business. Speakers will share experience of how teams can speed up and win in business! Join the event and learn how correct knowledge of UX can penetrate the organization.

Learn more: https://2019.uxdaystokyo.com/

OFFSET Dublin 2019

Date: April 5–7, 2019
Location: Dublin, Ireland

One of the world's most inspirational, educational and vocational conferences for the design and creative industries.

Learn more: http://www.iloveoffset.com/

KRUPA Interface Design Conference

Date: April 6, 2019
Location: Kyiv, Ukraine

The biggest interface design conference in Eastern Europe with fantastic speakers from all over the globe. Join the event to share the experience with wonderful participants in the global UX world. Speeches will be held in two parallel streams, with the exception of the lecture by Don Norman, known for his books on design, especially 'The Design of Everyday Things'.

Learn more: https://prjctr.com.ua/krupa

Web Directions Design 2019

Date: April 11–12, 2019
Location: Melbourne, Australia

If you are involved with the design of digital product or services, you can't afford to miss this one-of-a-kind Australian event. Only in Melbourne, arguably Australia's design capital.

Learn more: https://webdirections.org/design/

UXAlive 2019

Date: April 25–26, 2019

Location: Istanbul, Turkey

UXAlive is the largest international event on user experience and usability composed of both presentations and workshops held by international UX stars. UXAlive Istanbul is a dedicated 2-day event featuring some of the best speakers and workshops in the field of user experience, research, usability, marketing, design and technology, from around the globe.

Learn more: http://www.uxalive.com/

UX Burlington

Date: May 3, 2019
Location: Burlington, VT, United States

UX Burlington is an event tailored for UX professionals seeking to stay ahead of the curve and push their work to the next level. Every talk at the 2019 conference will be presented through the lens of immediacy in UX.

Learn more: https://www.uxburlington.com/

Design Festival Bern

Date: May 3–5, 2019
Location: Bern, Switzerland

The Design Festival combines exhibition, talk and experience. Creative works, as well as processes, valuable knowledge and a unique festival feeling, are waiting for you.

Learn more: https://designfestival.ch/

An Event Apart Boston

Date: May 6–8, 2019
Location: Boston, MA, United States

An Event Apart Boston 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. Early Bird ends soon!

Learn more: http://aneventapart.com/event/boston-2019

HOW Design Live

Date: May 7 -10, 2019

Location: Chicago, IL, United States

One of the largest annual gatherings of creative professionals in the world. HOW Design Live is a career-changing, life-altering experience where you will access up to 100 educational sessions and keynotes, become part of a creative community and have an exclusive opportunity to preview new tools, technologies, and products in the industry's largest exhibit hall.

Learn more: https://www.howdesignlive.com/

99U Conference

Date: May 8–10, 2019

Location: New York City, NY, United States

From people working at the bleeding edge of their fields to others bringing more humanity to technology and business, the program for the 11th Annual 99U Conference is a call to action for creatives to take control of our tomorrow.

This year's program includes groundbreakers and innovators in augmented intelligence, virtual reality, interactive art, sonic design, poetic computation, and much more.

Learn more: https://conference.99u.com/

Berlin Letters Festival 2019

Date: May 16–18, 2019
Location: Berlin, Germany

Three days of exchange and inspiration for designers and lettering aficionados. The event involves international lectures, professional workshops and parties. And of course, meeting people and networking in Berlin. Sounds interesting? Then book tickets!

Learn more: https://berlinletters.com/

UXConf BR 2019

Date: May 17–18, 2019
Location: Porto Alegre, Brazil

UXConf BR is the largest Brazilian event on design for user experience specialists. You will hear stories that inspire people to change for good, get ideas that make people think and act. The event is based on directions related to ethics, diversity, inclusion as well as business impact.

Learn more: https://www.uxconf.com.br/

UXLx: User Experience Lisbon 2019

Date: May 21–24, 2019
Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Over 80 hours of intensive workshops and inspirational talks to teach you new ideas and techniques you can carry over into your daily work. Mingle with 500 of your peers and thought leaders in the industry in our fabulous social events. Share ideas and extend your professional network with people from all over the world.

Learn more: https://www.ux-lx.com/

ACE! 2019

Date: May 23–24, 2019
Location: Krakow, Poland

ACE! is the largest regional conference of its kind in Central Europe, attracting people from all over the region. The event combines two one-track conferences into one. The Building Software Better track includes the traditional ACE! content such as agile, lean, Scrum, Kanban, and other methods for improving software development. 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 Researchers. Attendees can also apply new skills and experiment with new ideas on the workshop.

Learn more: https://aceconf.com/#!/home

Semi Permanent Sydney 2019

Date: May 23–25, 2019
Location: Sydney, Australia

Get ready for amazing speakers from the world's famous companies! The event that has brought you Banksy, Oliver Stone, Paula Scher, Radiohead and more is happening again in Sydney this May. SP will once again be inviting an extraordinary roster of talent within and between multiple disciplines of design to appear on the Sydney stage.

Learn more: https://www.semipermanent.com/events/sydney-2019

Graphics Interface 2019

Date: May 28–31, 2019
Location: Kingston, Canada

Graphics Interface (GI) is an annual international conference devoted to computer graphics and human-computer interaction. With a graphics track and an HCI track having equal weights in the conference, GI offers a unique venue for a meeting of minds working on computer graphics and interactive techniques.

Learn more: http://graphicsinterface.org/conference/2019/

UX London 2019

Date: May 29–31, 2019
Location: London, United Kingdom

Learn from the authors, founders, directors and designers who are helping shape the industry and push it forward. UX London, now in its eleventh year brings together the world's leading design experts and practitioners for three days of inspirational talks and hands-on workshops.

Learn more: https://2019.uxlondon.com/

Originally written for Cadabra Studio blog.