There are some partnerships that just make sense.
Today, we’re excited to announce Dovetail as our Gold Sponsor for UXCON26. 🎉
If you work in UX research, product, design, or customer experience, there’s a good chance Dovetail is already a familiar name.
Dovetail has built its platform around something we care deeply about at UXCON: helping teams get closer to the people they’re building for.
It brings research, customer feedback, support conversations, sales calls, and other customer signals together so teams can turn all of that information into insights they can actually use.
And that feels especially fitting for UXCON26.
Because this year, we’re talking about what happens beyond the UX team.
Great products rarely come from one brilliant designer or one perfectly executed research study.
They happen when researchers, designers, product managers, engineers, leaders, and the wider organization can understand the same customer, work from the same evidence, challenge each other’s assumptions, and make better decisions together.
That’s the conversation at the heart of UXCON26.
And it’s why having Dovetail join us as a Gold Sponsor feels like such a natural fit.
UX has changed. The way we work has to change with it.
Research is no longer only about running interviews and producing a report.
Design is no longer only about what happens inside Figma.
And building customer-centered products can’t sit with one department.
Teams today are dealing with more customer data, more tools, faster product cycles, and now AI changing how research, analysis, design, and product development happen.
The challenge isn’t simply gathering more information.
It’s making sense of it.
Sharing it.
And making sure what we’re learning about customers actually influences what gets built.
These are exactly the kinds of conversations we want to have when hundreds of people from across UX, product, research, design, engineering, and leadership come together this October.
And we’d love for you to be in that room.
UXCON26 is happening:
📅 Thursday, October 8, 2026
📍 Silver Spring Civic Building at Veterans Plaza, Maryland
⏰ 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM EST
This isn’t a day of sitting quietly through presentation after presentation.
It’s a day to hear from people doing the work, meet people tackling problems similar to yours, challenge how you currently think about UX, discover new approaches and tools, and have the conversations that are much harder to have through a screen.
Whether you’re a researcher, designer, product manager, engineer, UX leader—or simply someone responsible for making products better for the people using them—you’ll find people you can learn from at UXCON26.
Come meet the UX community this October.
Dovetail joining us as a Gold Sponsor is another exciting step toward making UXCON26 our biggest gathering yet.
But ultimately, the companies on the sponsor wall aren’t what make UXCON special.
The people in the room do.
The unexpected conversation during a coffee break.
The person you meet who has been wrestling with the exact same problem.
The speaker who completely changes how you think about your work.
The introduction that turns into a collaboration, opportunity, friendship, or next career move.
That’s what we’re building toward on October 8.
And if you’ve been thinking about joining us this year, we’d love to see you there.
