[Updated] The best UX and design conferences in 2020

A comprehensive list for UX conferences, UX events and design conferences for designers, researchers, product owners, developers or anyone interested in the UIUX and design industry who are looking to attend one in 2020.

Haven’t decided on which UX events or design conferences to attend in 2020? Read through the list below. Only conferences/ events with CONFIRMED dates and venues are included in this list.

Two additional criteria have been added to help you with your decision making:

  • Annually recurring or not: You know that the events are somehow trustworthy and reliable when they have been happening for the past years.
  • Sponsor and partners: The more, the bigger, the better.

 

For more events and conferences, browse the events directory here. If there’s any missing event, please submit the events here. The list is still being continually updated.

 

Notice: Due to COVID-19, some of the events have been made virtual, postponed, rescheduled, or cancelled. We are actively updating the list and we are adding the following labels to the events with updates:

  • Postponed – Event is no longer held on the original date, but a new date is to be confirmed. The date of the event displayed is tentative.
  • Rescheduled – Event is no longer held on the original date, but a new date has already been confirmed. The date of the event displayed is the new date.
  • Cancelled – Event is no longer held on the original date and there will be no replacement. The date of the event displayed is the original date.
  • Virtual – Event will be held virtually.

 

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— January 2020 —

 

Invisible Talks 2020 (San Francisco, California, USA)

Date: January 16, 2020 – January 17, 2020
Yearly Recurring Events: Yes
Event Sponsors and Partners: Noise13, Google, Dropbox, Atlassian, Mozilla, Mailchimp, Calm, Adobe Creative Residency, Swissnex, The Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, Delve Fonts, Sosie Wines, Creative Reaction Lab, California College of the Arts, and many more.

Official Website

 

UXCamp DC 2020 (Northwest, Washington, USA)

Date: January 23, 2020 – January 24, 2020
Yearly Recurring Events: Yes
Event Sponsors and Partners: Rosenfeld Media, EventBrowse, O’Reilly Media, akathame

Official Website

 

Awwwards Tokyo 2020 (Tokyo, Japan)

Date: January 23, 2020 – January 24, 2020
Yearly Recurring Events: Yes
Event Sponsors and Partners: Awwwards

Official Website

 

— February 2020 —

 

Interaction 20 by IxDA (Milan, Italy)

Date: February 02, 2020 – February 07, 2020
Yearly Recurring Events: Yes
Event Sponsors and Partners: Adobe, Amazon Design, Skecthin, Airbnb Design, Google, InVision, McKinsey Design, Microsoft, Trivago, Balsamiq and many more.

Official Website

 

UX Istanbul 2020 (Istanbul, Turkey)

Date: February 18, 2020
Yearly Recurring Events: Yes
Event Sponsors and Partners: Commencis, Pupahouse, Agile Rurkey, Axure, Bloomberg Businessweek, Hotjar, Proto.io, Sketch, UXPA Istanbul and many more.

Official Website

 

Awwwards Conference Amsterdam 2020 (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date: February 19, 2020 – February 21, 2020
Yearly Recurring Events: Yes
Event Sponsors and Partners: Awwwards

Official Website

 

UXI Live 2020 (Rishon LeZion, Israel)

Date: February 23, 2020 – February 24, 2020
Yearly Recurring Events: Yes
Event Sponsors and Partners: Uniq UI, Monday.com, Vimeo, Apps Flyer, Pitango UX

Official Website

 

 

Experience Design 2020 (Denver, CO, USA)

Date: February 24, 2020 – February 26, 2020
Yearly Recurring Events: Yes
Event Sponsors and Partners: Abstract, Balsamiq, Ideo U, ISG, McKinsey Design, and more.

Official Website

 

Design Indaba Conference 2020 (Cape Town, South Africa)

Date: February 26, 2020 – February 28, 2020
Yearly Recurring Events: Yes
Event Sponsors and Partners: Mercedes-Benz, Liberty, Woolworths, Business Insider South Africa and more.

Official Website

 

ProfsofUX 2020 (St. Petersburg, Russia)

Date: February 29, 2020
Yearly Recurring Events: Yes
Event Sponsors and Partners: First Line Software, Rosenfeld, Majordomo and more.

Official Website

 

 

— March 2020 —

 

The UX Conference 2020 (London, United Kingdom)

Date: March 02, 2020 – March 03, 2020
Yearly Recurring Events: Yes
Event Sponsors and Partners: The School of UX Design, SumUp and more.

Official Website

 

ConveyUX 2020 (Seattle, Washington, USA)

Date: March 03, 2020 – March 05, 2020
Yearly Recurring Events: Yes
Event Sponsors and Partners: Blink UX

Official Website

 

Service Design in Government 2020 (Edinburgh, Scotland)

Date: March 04, 2020 – March 06, 2020
Yearly Recurring Events: Yes
Event Sponsors and Partners: Scott Logic, Registers of Scotland

Official Website

 

Design Research 2020 (Melbourne, Australia)

Date: March 18, 2020 – March 20, 2020
Yearly Recurring Events: Yes
Event Sponsors and Partners: To be updated

Official Website

 

 

UX Copenhagen 2020 (Copenhagen, Denmark)

Date: March 30, 2020 – March 31, 2020 Virtual
Yearly Recurring Events: Yes
Event Sponsors and Partners: To be updated

Official Website

 

 

— April 2020 —

 

HXD2020: Health Experience Design Conference 2020 (Cambridge, MA, USA)

Date: April 14, 2020 – April 15, 2020 Virtual
Yearly Recurring Events: Yes
Event Sponsors and Partners: To be updated

Official Website

 

IAC : Information Architecture Conference 2020 (New Orleans, LA, USA)

Date: April 14, 2020 – April 18, 2020 Virtual
Yearly Recurring Events: Yes
Event Sponsors and Partners: To be updated

Official Website

 

CHI 2020 (Honolulu, Hawaii, USA)

Date: April 25, 2020 – April 30, 2020 Cancelled
Yearly Recurring Events: Yes
Event Sponsors and Partners: Facebook, Google, Verizon Media, Monash University

Official Website

 

— May 2020 —

 

UX Healthcare London 2020 (London, UK)

Date: May 14, 2020 – May 15, 2020 Rescheduled Virtual
Yearly Recurring Events: Yes
Event Sponsors and Partners: Balsamiq, The Journal of mHealth, Doctorpreneurs

Official Website

 

UX Healthcare Amsterdam 2020 (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date: May 14, 2020 – May 15, 2020 Rescheduled Virtual
Yearly Recurring Events: Yes
Event Sponsors and Partners: Balsamiq, The Journal of mHealth, Doctorpreneurs

Official Website

 

UX Healthcare Frankfurt 2020 (Frankfurt, Germany)

Date: May 14, 2020 – May 15, 2020 Rescheduled Virtual
Yearly Recurring Events: Yes
Event Sponsors and Partners: Balsamiq, The Journal of mHealth, Doctorpreneurs

Official Website

UXLx: User Experience Lisbon 2020 (Lisbon, Portugal)

Date: May 19, 2020 – May 22, 2020 Virtual
Yearly Recurring Events: Yes
Event Sponsors and Partners: Balsamiq, Lisboa Oriente, TAP Air Portugal

Official Website

 

 

— June 2020 —

 

Fluxible 2020 (Waterloo, Canada)

Date: June 01, 2020 – June 07, 2020 Cancelled
Yearly Recurring Events: Yes
Event Sponsors and Partners: Zeitspace, Arctic Wolf, Communitech, Google, TD, and many more.

Official Website

 

UX Scotland 2020 (Edinburgh, Scotland)

Date: June 10, 2020 – June 12, 2020 Postponed
Yearly Recurring Events: Yes
Event Sponsors and Partners: To be updated.

Official Website

 

UXPA International 2020 Conference (Baltimore, Maryland, USA)

Date: June 23, 2020 – June 25, 2020 Postponed
Yearly Recurring Events: Yes
Event Sponsors and Partners: To be updated.

Official Website

 

ADDC App Design & Development Conference 2020 (Barcelona, Spain)

Date: June 24, 2020 – June 26, 2020
Yearly Recurring Events: Yes
Event Sponsors and Partners: To be updated.

Official Website

 

UX STRAT Europe 2020 (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Date: June 29, 2020 – July 01, 2020
Yearly Recurring Events: Yes
Event Sponsors and Partners: Foolproof and many more.

Official Website

 

— July 2020 —

 

Awwwards Conference Toronto 2020 (Toronto, Canada)

Date: July 14, 2020 – July 16, 2020
Yearly Recurring Events: Yes
Event Sponsors and Partners: Awwwards

Official Website

 

HCI International 2020 (Copenhagen, Denmark)

Date: July 19, 2020 – July 24, 2020
Yearly Recurring Events: Yes
Event Sponsors and Partners: To be updated.

Official Website

 

— August 2020 —

 

UX Australia 2020 (Melbourne, Australia)

Date: August 25, 2020 – August 28, 2020
Yearly Recurring Events: Yes
Event Sponsors and Partners: To be updated.

Official Website

 

— September 2020 —

 

UX Salon 2020 (Tel Aviv, Israel)

Date: Autumn (From September 1, 2020)  Postponed
Yearly Recurring Events: Yes
Event Sponsors and Partners: To be updated.

Official Website

 

ProductCamp 2020 (Gdynia, Poland)

Date: September 2, 2020 – September 4, 2020 Rescheduled
Yearly Recurring Events: Yes
Event Sponsors and Partners: To be updated.

Official Website

 

Design Thinking 2020 (Austin, Texas, USA)

Date: September 8, 2020 – September 11, 2020 Rescheduled
Yearly Recurring Events: Yes
Event Sponsors and Partners: To be updated

Official Website

 

Pixel Up! 2020 (Cape Town, South Africa)

Date: September 14, 2020 – September 16, 2020 Rescheduled
Yearly Recurring Events: Yes
Event Sponsors and Partners: To be updated

Official Website

 

UXinsight 2020 (Breda, Netherlands)

Date: September 14, 2020 – September 16, 2020 Rescheduled
Yearly Recurring Events: Yes
Event Sponsors and Partners: Milkshake Research, Happy Labs, Userlytics and more.

Official Website

 

Design Matters 20 (Copenhagen, Denmark)

Date: September 23, 2020 – September 24, 2020
Yearly Recurring Events: Yes
Event Sponsors and Partners: Design Museum Danmark, Balsamiq and more.

Official Website

 

 

EuroIA20 (Online)

Date: September 20, 2020 – September 26, 2020 Virtual
Yearly Recurring Events: Yes
Event Sponsors and Partners: To be updated.

Official Website

 

— October 2020 —

Seattle Interactive Conference 2020 (Seattle, USA)

Date: October 12, 2020 – October 13, 2020 Rescheduled Virtual
Yearly Recurring Events: Yes
Event Sponsors and Partners: To be updated

Official Website

Seattle Interactive Conference 2020 (Online)

 

World Usability Congress 2020 (Online)

Date: October 19, 2020 – October 23, 2020 Rescheduled Virtual
Yearly Recurring Events: Yes
Event Sponsors and Partners: To be updated.

Official Website

World Usability Congress 2020 (Online)

 

Adobe MAX 2020 (Online)

Date: October 20, 2020 – October 22, 2020 Rescheduled Virtual
Yearly Recurring Events: Yes
Event Sponsors and Partners: Adobe

Official Website

Adobe MAX 2020 (Online)

 

Design 2020 (Online)

Date: October 26, 2020 – October 29, 2020 Rescheduled Virtual
Yearly Recurring Events: Yes
Event Sponsors and Partners: The Design Society, FSB, Cad Lab, PerfectMeetings

Official Website

 

— November 2020 —

UX STRAT Asia 2020 (Singapore)

Date: November 2, 2020 – November 3, 2020 Rescheduled
Yearly Recurring Events: Yes
Event Sponsors and Partners: Foolproof, DBS, PXD, Netizen Experience and many more.

Official Website

UX STRAT ASIA 2020 (Singapore)

 

 

UX Brighton 2020: UX and Product Management (Brighton, England)

Date: November 6, 2020
Yearly Recurring Events: Yes
Event Sponsors and Partners: To be updated

Official Website

UX Brighton 2020: UX and Product Management (Brighton, England)

AIGA Design Conference 2020 (Pittsburgh, PA, USA)

Date: November 09, 2020 – November 14, 2020  Rescheduled Virtual
Yearly Recurring Events: Yes
Event Sponsors and Partners: Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, Duolingo, Stocksy United, Neenah and many more.

Official Website

 

SmashingConf 2020 (San Francisco, USA)

Date: November 10, 2020 – November 11, 2020 Rescheduled Virtual
Yearly Recurring Events: Yes
Event Sponsors and Partners: Smashing Media

Official Website

SmashingConf 2020 San Francisco (Online)

 

— December 2020 —

IXDC 2020 (Beijing, China)

Date: December 17, 2020 – December 21, 2020.  Rescheduled
Yearly Recurring Events: Yes
Event Sponsors and Partners: To be updated.

Official Website

IXDC 2020 (Beijing, China)

 

— March 2021 —

UX Days Tokyo 2020 (Tokyo, Japan)

Date: March 26, 2021 – March 28, 2020 Rescheduled
Yearly Recurring Events: Yes
Event Sponsors and Partners: Adobe, Dwango, PR Times, Clearleft

Official Website

UX Days Tokyo 2020 (Tokyo, Japan)

 

 

— May 2021 —

US Games User Research Summit 2020 (Montreal, Canada)

Date: May 1, 2021 Postponed
Yearly Recurring Events: Yes
Event Sponsors and Partners: Electronics Art, XBox, Ubisoft

Official Website

 

UX London 2020 (London, UK)

Date: May 1, 2021  Postponed
Yearly Recurring Events: Yes
Event Sponsors and Partners: To be updated.

Official Website

UX London 2020 (London, UK)

 

OFFF Barcelona 2020 (Barcelona, Spain)

Date: May 6, 2021 – May 8, 2021 Rescheduled
Yearly Recurring Events: Yes
Event Sponsors and Partners: Adobe, Dropbox, Wiq, HP, Twitter and many more.

Official Website

 

— Sep 2021 —

UX Conf BR 2020 (Porto Alegre, Brazil)

Date: September 24, 2021 – September 25, 2021 Resheduled
Yearly Recurring Events: Yes
Event Sponsors and Partners: To be updated.

Official Website

 

 

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