The field is shifting. Here's where to stand
The UX landscape looks different than it did two years ago.
The UX landscape looks different than it did two years ago.
Job titles are blurring. AI is not a future consideration anymore. It is already inside the process, changing what gets built, who builds it, and what skills actually matter when the work gets hard. Research budgets are shrinking. Junior roles are disappearing. Senior practitioners are being asked to justify their seat at the table in ways they never had to before.
And underneath all of it, a lot of people in this community are sitting with a version of the same question: what does my career look like from here?
We are not pretending that question has an easy answer. But we are creating two spaces this year where the community can face it together, with the right people, the right conversations, and something useful to walk away with.
Upskill AI: Repositioning For The New Economy July 23 · 12 to 4PM · Silver Spring Civic Building, MD
This is not a talk about AI. It is four hours of actual work, your resume, your positioning, your pitch, built inside the tools that are reshaping how hiring works right now. No theory. No slides to forget by Thursday. Just a room full of people who are serious about their next move, doing the work together, led by people who do this for a living.
You leave with something finished. A clearer read on where your skills belong in this economy. And one specific next step you chose before you walked out.
For anyone in this community navigating a transition, a layoff, or just a quiet feeling that the map has changed and nobody handed you a new one.
UXCON26 October 8 · One Day · Full Lineup
Don Norman coined the term user experience. He wrote the book that sits on nearly every designer’s shelf. He is 88 years old and he is still challenging the field to go further, think bigger, and design for what humanity actually needs, not just what the product brief asked for.
He is our headlining keynote this year. Alongside him: practitioners from Netflix, The New York Times, Target, UserTesting, Skylight, and more. People doing the real work, at scale, under real constraints, right now.
UXCON is not a content delivery event. It is the one day of the year where this community gets in the same room and has the conversations that actually move things forward. The kind you think about on the drive home. The kind that change how you show up to work on Monday.
Two different rooms. One direction forward.