One of the best things about being a part of the design community is that most designers love to exchange ideas, spread knowledge, and share their experiences regardless of their seniority level. You can be a starting designer or an established thought leader and it’s almost a given that you find a conference that may teach you something new.
What’s also great about UX conferences is that not all of them target the UX/UI community, but the people who work with them on a daily basis, which helps designers get a seat at the table and increases awareness about the importance of design. Product managers, developers and other professionals who work closely with design can find an event for themselves.
Highlighted Conferences – Our Top 3 Picks
We picked three conferences that are happening very soon. Don’t miss them!
DesignOps Summit 2022 by Rosenfeld
One of the most renowned conferences in the community – for people who lead design operations and their teams. The focus will be on working together to define roles, set goals, and establish scalable solutions for achieving them.
- Date: September 08-09, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Virtual
- Audience: design operations team and leaders
- Common topics: designops practices, inclusive design operations, scaling, future of designops
George UX Conference [Hybrid]
The conference theme is “Shaping Finances by Design” and it will focus on showing insights into user experience, design processes, and the future of money. That’s always been a relevant topic, hasn’t it?
- Date: Oct 10, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Virtual & Vienna
- Audience: ux designers, product designers, service designers in banking and fintech
- Common topics: ux design, design processes, product design
Design Matters [Hybrid]
It’s one of the most popular conferences in the design field hosted for UX/UI designers and anyone connected to tech and innovation.
- Date: Sep 28-29, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Virtual & Copenhagen
- Audience: product designers, product managers
- Common topics: design strategy, design process, career
January 2022 Conferences
The first month of the year has two interesting conferences. The first one is QRCA which runs annually. Then, there’s a UXDX community event that’s open for all.
QRCA 2022 Annual Conference [Hybrid]
QRCA stands for Qualitative Research Consultants Association. The conference focuses on qualitative research. It covers research methods, tools, and lessons from experts in the field. QRCA 2022 itheme is “REimage REsearch.”
- Date: Jan 12-13; Jan 18-21, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Virtual & San Diego
- Audience: UX researchers, marketing researchers
- Common topics: qualitative research, research methods, research tools
Defending Your Design System [Webinar]
We invited Carola Cassaro to tell you more about defending design systems. Carola helped IKEA implement their design system and establish a design operations practice. She will tell you how to get stakeholder buy-in for design systems.
- Date: Jan 18, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Virtual
- Audience: product designers
- Common topics: design system, leadership, DesignOps
UXDX is a popular conference for UX designers, developers and product people around the world. Usually the talks are centered around building better products, from ideation to execution.
- Date: Jan 27, 2022
- Free: Yes
- Where: Virtual
- Audience: UX designers, UX researchers, developers and product managers
- Common topics: product direction, scaling design, validation, product growth
- Highlighted sessions: Changying ‘Z’ Zhang “Building DesignOps As A Team Of 1.”
Related content: DesignOps 101 ebook
February 2022 Conferences
What about the second month of the year? We’ve found a couple of conferences that may catch your eye. Let’s see them.
Product World
It advertises itself as the world’s largest product manager and product developer conference, and it’s lineup is truly impressive.
- Date: Feb 2-4, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Virtual
- Audience: product managers, developers, product designers
- Common topics: product management, product growth, product workflow
UX360 Research Summit
Are you a UX researcher? This conference might be for you. You’ll learn more about gaining a stakeholder buy-in for research, influencing product management and new approaches to UX research.
- Date: Feb 8-9, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Virtual
- Audience: UX researchers, UX designers
- Common topics: research for accessibility, career, leadership
ProductCon
Organized by Product School, ProductCon is a 1-day conference for product people who want to learn more about managing products and the future of product management.
- Date: Feb 15, 2022
- Free: Yes (for Early Birds)
- Where: Virtual
- Audience: product managers, developers, product designers
- Common topics: leadership, future of product management, product workflow
Dave Malouf’s webinar about DesignOps [Webinar]
Dave Malouf is “the” person you think about when you hear the word “DesignOps.” In our 1-hour long webinar, he will tell you everything you need to know about DesignOps.
- Date: Feb 17, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Virtual
- Audience: product designers
- Common topics: design system, leadership, DesignOps
Experience Design Conference
The conference is devoted to human-centered design and sharing best practices coming from the Experience Design industry leaders.
- Date: Feb 29 – Mar 3, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Denver
- Audience: UX designers, UI designers, product designers
- Common topics: UX, product management, human-centered design, design thinking
March 2022 Conferences
March is going to be an exciting month for those of you who love tuning in for virtual conferences.
Interaction Week 22
This interaction design conference has been running quite some time. It is still waiting for submissions, so we can say for sure what its lineup will be like. This year’s theme is “One year on, what have we learned?”
- Date: Mar 2-4, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Virtual
- Audience: UX designers, UI designers, researchers
- Common topics: UX, human-centered design, interaction design
Advancing Research
Another interesting conference for researchers. This one is organized by none other than Rosenfeld Media, a famous publisher. It is still calling for speakers.
- Date: Mar 9-11, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Virtual
- Audience: UX researchers
- Common topics: research operations, DesignOps
Design Research by UX Australia [Hybrid]
A great conference for anyone who’s engaged in doing research before design work. The conference is still accepting submissions.
- Date: Mar 16-18, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Virtual & On-site TBD
- Audience: UX researchers, product managers, product designers
- Common topics: research operations, leadership, research methods, research tools
Design Matters Pop-up
A pop-up event hosted by a world-renowned conference, Design Matters. It’s theme is “Design a Sustainable Future,” and it will pose a question, “how to design for a sustainable consumption behavior?”
- Date: Mar 23, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Virtual
- Audience: UX researchers, product managers, product designers
- Common topics: design sustainability, design process, leadership
Design It. Build It.
Learn about AI, design systems, power of prototyping & other deliverables, remote work, and many other topics that are relevant for every product designer in 2022. The event is hosted in Edinburgh, and you still can buy tickets for it. Highly recommended!
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- Date: Mar 21-22, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Edinburgh
- Audience: product designers, product managers
- Common topics: design process, leadership, product growth
UX Copenhagen
A global event that brings together people from around the globe. The theme for this year’s conference is “Creating a Culture Change” which pertains to empowerment and leadership in the UX design field.
- Date: Mar 28-29, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Virtual
- Audience: UX designers, UX researchers
- Common topics: human-centered design, leadership, career
UXDX USA 2022 [Hybrid]
A hybrid event that takes place in New York and online at the same time. It’s mission is to bridge the gap between Product, UX, Design and Development.
- Date: Mar 29-31, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Virtual & New York
- Audience: product managers, developers, product designers
- Common topics: product strategy, scaling design, validation, product growth
Design Value Conference
A UXPin’s 1-day conference that will teach you how to improve the ROI of design, scale operations, and increase design’s impact.
- Date: Mar 29, 2022
- Free: Yes
- Where: Virtual
- Audience: product designers, product managers
- Common topics: scaling design, DesignOps, leadership
April 2022 Conferences
You’ll get a couple of conferences that will be interesting for designers, researchers and product teams. What are they?
UXistanbul
Organized by UXServices, this conference is a place for sharing the latest UX and usability know-how. The line-up comprises designers from industry leaders, such as Google, Netflix, and more.
- Date: Apr 11-22, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Virtual
- Audience: product designers, researchers, product managers
- Common topics: product strategy, analytics, team growth
CHI 2022 [Hybrid]
This year’s annual ACM Computer Human Interaction conference will be a hybrid event, which means that it will take place on-site in New Orleans and online.
- Date: Apr 15-16, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Virtual & New Orleans
- Audience: researchers
- Common topics: research tools, research methods
Information Architecture Conference 2021
It’s one of the leading conferences for information architects, designers, and others who create and manage UI and information environments.
- Date: Apr 19-23, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Virtual
- Audience: product designers, researchers, product managers
- Common topics: information architecture, UX research, content strategy
ProductCon San Francisco [Hybrid]
April is a month for another Product School’s ProductCon event is a 1-day conference for product people who want to learn more about managing products and the future of product management.
- Date: Apr, 2022 (TBD)
- Free: Yes (for online)
- Where: Virtual & San Francisco
- Audience: product managers, developers, product designers
- Common topics: leadership, future of product management, product growth
Confab
Hey, content managers! There’s an event dedicated to increasing your skills. Confab is a conference dedicated to content strategy where you can get insights from industry leaders.
- Date: April 30 – May 3, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Minneapolis
- Audience: content managers, product designers, UX writers
- Common topics: career, content management, tools
May 2022 Conferences
May will be the month for on-site UX and product conferences. Let’s see where we can travel to. Are you ready?
Women in Product
Need inspiration and encouragement? Here’s a women-led conference to help women get leadership roles and find success working in product.
- Date: May 10-12, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Virtual
- Audience: product designers, product managers
- Common topics: career, product management, leadership
It’s an annual UX and service design conference. To know more about this year’s event, read their manifesto.
- Date: May 13, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Stockholm
- Audience: product designers, product management
- Common topics: product strategy, DesignOps, scaling design, leadership
- Highlighted sessions: Andy Budd from Clearleft about Design Leadership
Enterprise Design System: How to Design & Scale [Webinar]
Amber Jabeen, DesignOps director at Delivery Hero MENA (talabat), will tell you ins-and-outs of building and scaling design system for multinational enterprise company. Can’t wait!
- Date: May 17, 2022
- Free: Yes
- Where: Virtual
- Audience: product designers
- Common topics: design system, leadership, scaling design
ACE! [Hybrid]
This Polish conference has two tracks: Agile Software Development and Product Design & Management. Yet, there will be a lot of content for product designers, too.
- Date: May 19-20, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Virtual & Kraków
- Audience: product managers, developers, product designers
- Common topics: leadership, product strategy, product growth
UX Camp Spring
1-day mini conference for UX design lovers that connects designers, engineers, and product leaders.
- Date: May 21, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Virtual
- Audience: product managers, developers, product designers
- Common topics: leadership, product strategy, product growth
Into Design Systems – The Future of Design Systems
Another edition of renowned Design Systems conference that brings together the design community around Design Systems, DesignOps, and Design Tools.
- Date: May 23-25, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Virtual
- Audience: product designers, DesignOps
- Common topics: design systems, design tools, design operations
Design2022
A Croatian conference that focuses on a multidisciplinary approach to design and goes beyond the design process to include innovative methods and approaches to design and more.
- Date: May 23-26, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Cavtat
- Audience: product designers, researchers
- Common topics: human-centered design, leadership, accessibility
June 2022 Conferences
That month looks very exciting for those of you who got used to participating in events from the comfort of their homes. In other words, there will be a few interesting virtual meetups.
La Product Conference
Come to Paris and take part in a conference for product people.
- Date: Jun 9, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Paris
- Audience: product managers
- Common topics: leadership, product growth
Pixel Pioneers
It may be just a day-long, but the Pixel Pioneers is fully-packed with inspirational presentations from leading UX/UI designers and front-end developers.
- Date: Jun 10, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Bristol
- Audience: product designers, developers, researchers
- Common topics: human-centered design, inclusive design, future of design
UX STRAT Europe
Sign up for a European edition of a popular UX STRAT conference. Learn from the design and innovation experts.
- Date: Jun 13-15, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Amsterdam
- Audience: product designers, researchers
- Common topics: design strategy, future of design,
DesignOps Global Conference
The conference theme is “Design for Circular Economy” and it will focus on designing for a sustainable future. That’s a very relevant topic nowadays, isn’t it?
- Date: Jun 14-17, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Virtual
- Audience: product designers, researchers, product managers
- Common topics: DesignOps, research operations, leadership
The Global FinTech Design Summit
Are you working on a FinTech product? Join the conference and meet other professionals who design and develop financial technology solutions.
- Date: Jun 15-16, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Virtual
- Audience: product designers
- Common topics: scaling design, inclusive design, research
UXPA 2022
Looking for inspirational talks? San Diego’s UXPA conference may be your cup of tea. Last year’s line-up was packed with speakers from Google, Instagram, Microsoft, etc. What about this year?
- Date: Jun 21-23, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: San Diego
- Audience: product designers, researchers
- Common topics: human-centered design, leadership, research
UXDX APAC 2022
It’s yet another UXDX event, but this one is an Audio-Pacific version. It’s dedicated to Product, UX, Design and Development teams that want to find a way of working together.
- Date: Jun 22-24, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: San Diego
- Audience: product managers, developers, product designers
- Common topics: product direction, scaling design, validation, product growth
HCI INTERNATIONAL 2022
That international conference on human-computer interaction that is usually held in Gothenburg, Sweden.
- Date: Jun 26-Jul 1, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Virtual
- Audience: product designers, researchers
- Common topics: human-centered design, research, leadership
July 2022 Conferences
The summer season is on, but there are a few exciting events coming. Curious what are they?
DCC’22
It’s the 10th edition of an International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition of the Mind. It focuses on cutting-edge design research, artificial intelligence and computational theories in design.
- Date: Jul 2-6, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Glasgow, UK
- Audience: researchers
- Common topics: research, future of product
DDX 2022 | UX Conference
Learn how to facilitate, foster and design positive business visions in emerging innovation fields.
- Date: Jul 9, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Munich, Germany
- Audience: product designers, product managers, design leaders
- Common topics: innovation, UX, leadership, sustainability
#mtpcon Digital Americas
The summer edition of the Mind the Product conference for both Americas.
- Date: Jul 11-15, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Virtual
- Audience: product designers, product managers, developers
- Common topics: leadership, future of product, product growth
August 2022 Conferences
Want to hear from product and design professionals? August has a great deal of interesting events.
An Event Apart
This is a summer edition of a conference for UX designers and front-end developers who want to expand their knowledge about web design.
- Date: Aug 18-20, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Seattle
- Audience: product designers, developers
- Common topics: design process, front-end design, leadership
PDC 2022 [Hybrid]
PDC stands for Participatory Design Conference. It’s based in New Castle upon Tyne, but many more countries have their local events that connected to the main conference. Check it out.
- Date: Aug 19- Sep 1, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Virtual and multiple locations
- Audience: product designers, researchers
- Common topics: design process, research, human-centered design
UX Australia
That’s an event that is due to disclose more details. Last year, UX Australia included presentations from renowned UX practitioners. Can’t wait to see the 2022 program!
- Date: Aug 23-26, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Virtual
- Audience: product designers, researchers
- Common topics: human-centered design, scaling design, leadership
Product Design Week
Come to London and immerse yourself in a week packed with product design insights. It’s a multidisciplinary conference for product lovers who want to learn how to design better.
- Date: Aug 30-Sep 2, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: London
- Audience: product designers, researchers, product managers
- Common topics: DesignOps, scaling design, design strategy, design process
September 2022 Conferences
After a rather less intensive month of August, September is back on track and will be full of great events for UX designers and other professionals involved in building products.
ProductCon
Time for a fall edition of ProductCon. If the conference agenda will be similar to the 2021 one, we’re up for an amazing product conference.
- Date: Sep 8, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Virtual
- Audience: product managers, developers, product designers
- Common topics: leadership, future of product management, product workflow
Hatch Conference [Hybrid]
A great event for UX designers, product designers, researchers and other digital design specialists who want to discuss new trends (AR, VR, sustainability) and techniques.
- Date: Sep 8, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Virtual and Berlin, Germany
- Audience: product designers, researchers
- Common topics: leadership, future of design, design process
User Research London
The conference focuses on UX and design research. It aims to spread knowledge about conducting research, sourcing candidates and interpreting results.
- Date: Sep 8-9, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: London
- Audience: product designers, researchers
- Common topics: research methods, design process, leadership
UX STRAT USA
This edition of the UX STRAT conference has a pretty impressive line up. We will hear from designers and product people from Spotify, Zoom, Best Buy, DoorDash, etc.
- Date: Sep 12-14, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Boulder, Colorado
- Audience: product designers, product managers
- Common topics: design process, leadership, product growth
Include 2022
Hosted by The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design at the Royal College of Art, Include is a global conference that unites UX designers around the topics of inclusive, human-centered design.
- Date: Sep 22-24, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Virtual
- Audience: product designers, product managers
- Common topics: human-centered design, inclusive design, accessibility
IxDD 2022
The World Interaction Design Day is an Adobe event that happens simultaneously in different parts of the world.
- Date: Sep 28, 2022
- Free: Yes
- Where: Virtual
- Audience: product designers, researchers
- Common topics: leadership, design process, career
Design Matters [Hybrid]
It’s one of the most popular conferences in the design field hosted for UX/UI designers and anyone connected to tech and innovation.
- Date: Sep 28-29, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Copenhagen, Denmark
- Audience: product designers
- Common topics: design strategy, design process, leadership
MobileHCI 2022
An exciting conference for mobile app designers and other professionals who are interested in mobile human-computer interaction.
- Date: Sep 28 – Oct 1, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Vancouver, Canada
- Audience: product designers
- Common topics: mobile design process, leadership
October 2022 Conferences
See October conferences for designers and product teams.
Impact
A fully virtual product management conference that is perfect for product managers, business analysts, but product designers can learn something too.
- Date: Oct 5, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Virtual
- Audience: product designers, developers, product managers
- Common topics: design process, inclusive design, leadership
Amuse
A great event for the UI/UX practitioners to share ideas, experiences, and approaches to their everyday work.
- Date: Oct 5-7, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Virtual
- Audience: product designers, developers, product managers
- Common topics: design process, inclusive design, leadership
UXDX EMEA
Finally, there’s an EMEA edition of UXDX scheduled for October, but you don’t need to be from the region to sign up for it.
- Date: Oct 6-8, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Virtual
- Audience: product managers, developers, product designers
- Common topics: product direction, scaling design, validation, product growth
An Event Apart
UX designers and front-end developers can enrol in another conference from An Event Apart, that is it’s fall edition.
- Date: Oct 10-12, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Denver
- Audience: product designers, developers
- Common topics: design process, front-end design, leadership
World Usability Conference
Let’s meet in Austria and discuss usability with other UX professionals and participate in talks and masterclasses where handpicked speakers share meaningful hands-on insights.
- Date: Oct 11-13, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Graz, Austria
- Audience: product designers, researchers
- Common topics: design process, usability, sustainability
UX Salon
UX designers, something for you. The conference is a 2-day event filled with practical UX training and inspiration.
- Date: Oct 23-24, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Tel Aviv, Israel
- Audience: product designers, researchers
- Common topics: design process, UX writing, UX research
November 2022 Conferences
UX STRAT Asia
Another UX STRAT event will be held in Asia and it will cover emerging technologies, such as AI/ML, Metaverse, and Web 3.0, and some traditional UX design.
- Date: Nov 1-2, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Singapore
- Audience: product designers
- Common topics: human-centered design, future of design
Clearleft’s Leading Design
A great conference for design team’s leaders who are responsible for design direction or championing a culture of design within their organisations.
- Date: Nov 2-3, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: London, UK
- Audience: product designers
- Common topics: design leadership
Push UX
At PUSH you’ll meet people from big enterprises like Apple, Bosch, Siemens, BMW, Google, as well as small independent studios, start-ups and freelancers.
- Date: Nov 3-4, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Munich, Germany
- Audience: product designers
- Common topics: product design, service design
CanUX 2022
An annual UX event, featuring hands-on workshops and a world-class mix of amazing presentations, with plenty of chances to find inspiration.
- Date: Nov 3-6, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Ottawa, Canada
- Audience: product designers
- Common topics: design leadership
UX Brighton
Hear from a hand-picked range of the best speakers within the realms of UX, product management, and more.
- Date: Nov 4, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Brighton, UK
- Audience: product designers, product managers, researchers
- Common topics: design process, product growth
Product Elevation Conference 2022 [Hybrid]
The conference connects Product & UX people around the globe to share real-life stories about elevating products to solve customers’ most wicked problems.
- Date: Nov 9-10, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Virtual and Dublin
- Audience: product designers, developers, product management
- Common topics: design process, front-end design, leadership
STHLM Xperience Conference 2022 [Hybrid]
The conference partnered with World Usability Day and decided to take up health as a theme. It will explore how our digital wellbeing affects our health.
- Date: Nov 10, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: Virtual and Stockholm, Sweden
- Audience: product designers, researchers
- Common topics: design process, accessibility, future of design
December 2022 Conferences
An Event Apart San Francisco
An all-round product design and development event that will cover popular design topics as well as CSS code that will make you a better designer for the web.
- Date: Dec 12-14, 2022
- Free: No
- Where: San Francisco, USA
- Audience: product designers, developers
- Common topics: design process, accessibility, development
Which design conference are you joining in 2022?
It seems as if 2022 was full of inspiring and educational content coming from the best speakers in design and product management. Have you found a conference for you? We will definitely keep you posted if any new event comes our way.
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