20 Best UX Conferences to Attend in 2020

While researching conferences for our team to attend in the coming year, we thought, “Hey, others could benefit from our research as well!” So, here is the list of what we believe are the best UX conferences to attend in 2020. (We’ve sorted them by region for user-friendliness):

UX Conferences in North America

An Event Apart

The web design conference for UX and front-end experts. 3 days of design, code, and content for interaction designers and developers. Packed with tips, techniques and insights into the future from industry shakers and shapers.

Country: United States 
City: Various (conferences are held in multiple cities, annually)

UX Strat – U.S.

UX STRAT is a conference that focuses on the intersection of Business Strategy with User Experience, Customer Experience, Digital Product Design and Service Design.

Country: United States 
City: Boulder, Colorado

Digital Summit

Digital Summit fills your brain and professional toolkit with thought leadership and practical solutions designed to supercharge your customer strategies. Sessions and topics featured at Digital Summit to include: content, search, email, mobile, UX design, social, strategy.

Country: United States
City: Various (conferences are held in multiple cities, annually)

ConveyUX

ConveyUX brings together the top minds in UX and creating a space for us to learn together and then go into the world with a deeper understanding of human behavior and technology. Armed with a larger network and more knowledge, we can design the future, together.

Country: United States
City: Seattle

Strive: UX Research Conference

Bringing together researchers, designers and product people for listening, learning and conversation about UX research.

Country: Canada
City: Toronto

Adobe Summit – The Digital Experience Conference

Get the latest trends in customer experience management

Country: United States
City: Las Vegas

Adobe Max – The Creativity Conference

Adobe Max is known to rejuvenate the work, process, and creative journeys of attendees. MAX is the perfect blend of information and inspiration, practical knowledge and creative magic. Take your creativity to the next level.

Country: United States
City: Los Angeles

Design Thinkers

Canada’s premier conference for visual communicators, is a must attend for any informed, forward-thinking creative, communications or marketing professional or team. The inspiring event, now in its 20th year, breeds change agents who become drivers of innovation.

Country: Canada
City: Toronto & Vancouver

UX + Dev Summit

With our unique and curated content, attendees this year will be guided through the journey of the product lifecycle and will understand these topics, along with understanding their impacts from both a UX and Development perspective.

Country: United States
City: Ft. Lauderdale

Big Design

Formed on a dare over 10 years ago, Big Design believes people are better together. So, we can create opportunities for people to learn, share, and grow. Experience, wisdom, and creativity solve problems, which is on full display at Big Design.

Country: United States
City: Dallas

Front

Together with over 1,000 other professionals, you’ll learn from extremely talented people influencing the organizations they work for and changing the way our industry looks at digital products and the way people use them.

Country: United States
City: Salt Lake City

UX Conferences in UK

The UX Conference

Explore how designers can help businesses grow through UX & marketing; surely no matter how great our UX research & design can be – our products and services won't sell on their own?

Country: England
City: London

UXDX

Build the right product, faster, together. The conference that bridges the gap between UX, Dev and Product

Country: Ireland
City: Dublin

UX Brighton UK

You'll find UXers of all levels – from those just starting out to senior managers – all looking to embrace the latest thinking. So join us: our goal is that everyone who attends will leave with a heightened awareness of design.

Country: England
City: Brighton

UX Conferences in Europe

UX Strat – Europe

UX STRAT is a conference that brings together design leaders, strategists, user researchers, design-focused data scientists, and experienced design professionals from many nations for presentations and workshops about the latest trends at the intersection of business strategy, user experience, product design, and service design.

Country: Netherlands
City: Amsterdam

UXinsight

An international conference dedicated to User Experience Research

Country: Netherlands
City: Utrecht

Web Summit

We live in uncertain times for tech and business. At Web Summit we welcome the people who are tackling the big challenges facing industry today. Our stages cover topics ranging from deep tech and data science to design and environmental sustainability.

Country: Portugal
City: Lisbon

UXRiga

3 days of inspiration and rapid learning for UX designers, developers, product owners and innovators.

Country: Latvia
City: Riga

World Usability Congress

An international premier user experience design conference – two days of conference presentations provide practical skills to take away, inspire you for your next projects, stretch your knowledge or show how someone has tackled a problem just like the one you’re facing.

Country: Austria
City: Graz

UX Conferences in Asia-Pacific

UX Australia

Australia's premier User Experience Design conference with workshops and presentations to suit everyone from graduate to experienced practitioners. Two days of hands-on workshops focus on practical skills and techniques and two full days of local and international conference presentations covering a huge range of topics and ideas.