THe 2025 remote designer's guide to online events
- Rose Lou
- Jan 22
- 4 min read
Updated: Jan 24
As UX design evolves, staying current with trends and tools is crucial, and attending conferences is a great way to learn and grow. Fortunately, 2025 offers a variety of online UX conferences that you can join from anywhere. For those like me who prefer a quieter, cozier approach to professional growth—especially introverts or those far from UX events—online conferences are a game-changer. You can learn from industry pros, level up your skills, and connect with fellow designers, all from the comfort of home. In this post, I've put together a list of online and hybrid events for 2025 to help you stay ahead in the field.
February
UX360 Research Summit
The UX360 Summit 2025 is entirely virtual and will focus on cutting-edge UX research, design methodologies, and strategies to improve user experience. Key topics include UX leadership, AI integration in design, and user-centered innovation. The event also offers hands-on workshops, talks, and an online community with leading professionals.
February 19-20
Topics: UX Research
ConveyUX 2025
This hybrid in-person and online event is based in Seattle featuring speakers from Weleda, LinkedIn, Figma, and Microsoft. This conference has a focus on career growth and staying on top of the latest trends and best practices in the field.
February 25-27
Topics: Career growth, UX Design trends and innovation
March
Advancing Research 2025
Hosted by Rosenfeld, this conference is solely focused on UX Research. The event itself is curated by researchers, and all of the speakers are leaders in UXR. This 3-day long online event is about what the next 5 years of UXR will bring and how to prepare.
March 11-13
Topics: UX Research, career growth
April
UXinsight Festival 2025
Coming back for its 9th year in a row in the Netherlands, this is a hybrid event focused on UX Research lasting for 3 days. This year’s theme is Raising the Bar, which is “a call to action to push boundaries, challenge norms, and shape the future of our field.” with speakers from companies like Google, LinkedIn, and working freelance.
April 14-16
Topics: UX Research, career growth
CHI 2025
This event is a hybrid experience for both presenters and attendees and will be based in Yokohama, Japan. This international conference of Human-Computer Interaction will explore the theme of Ikigai—finding purpose and balance in today's challenging world. This premier Human-Computer Interaction conference will feature a mix of in-person and remote sessions, focusing on innovation and global issues. It invites contributions from various disciplines to collaborate and make a positive impact on society.
April 26 - May 1
Topics: Human-Computer Interaction, community
May
Figma Config 2025
Professionals working in disciplines all across UX get together to hear about the latest in trends, achievements, and the announcement of new and upcoming Figma features. From product development workflows, to working with AI, to developing design systems, this is a 3-day event with lots of opportunities to learn and pick up new tricks.
May 6-8
Topics: UX Design, product development, Figma
UXDX USA
Based in New York, UXDX is all about improving collaboration between product, UX, design, and development teams to create better products. This conference is available both online and in-person with a focus on improving cross-functional relationships to improve processes, productivity, and the overall quality of the product or service your company offers. Hear from leaders in design, data, product and research at companies like IBM, Uber, and The New York Times.
May 12-15
Topics: Case studies and processes
Figma Config London 2025
Professionals working in disciplines all across UX get together to hear about the latest in trends, achievements, and the announcement of new and upcoming Figma features. From product development workflows, to working with AI, to developing design systems, this is a 3-day event with lots of opportunities to learn and pick up new tricks.
May 14
Topics: UX Design, product development, Figma
UXDX EMEA
This UXDX event is based in Berlin, and much like the USA version, is also available both online and in-person. The primary differences between UXDX EMEA and UXDX USA are the speakers and dates. The EMEA event also seems a bit larger with talks and workshops from leaders at companies such as Deliveroo, Miro, Sephora, JP Morgan, and Mastercard.
May 19-21
Topics: Case studies and processes
Women in Tech
Coming back for round 6, this global conference is available both online and in-person in New York. This event seeks to connect and inspire women, minorities and allies in tech from around the world. According to their stats from previous years, they’ve had over 500 speakers, 9,500 ambassadors and 100,000 visitors from 179 countries. Each day is a differently themed summit with multiple topics covered across the 3 days.
May 20-22
Topics: Leadership, future technology, career growth
Where to register: https://www.womentech.net/women-tech-conference
September
UX Nordic
Available both in-person in Copenhagen and online, this international conference connects all UX disciplines as part of the Future Product Days 2025 program. According to their site, “The 2025 Conference will set its focus on hot topics such as the Future for Product Designers, Research, AI UX, Leadership and trends from the US and Asia.” All talks and workshops will be spoken in English, and there will apparently be a trance concert.
September 24-25
Topics: UX Design, AI, Product Management and E-Commerce.
Growth through UX Conferences
Whether you're an experienced UX professional or just starting out, attending UX conferences is a great way to grow your skills, gain new perspectives, and connect with the global UX community. With a wide range of events focusing on research, design, innovation, and collaboration, there's more than one lesson to learn. I hope this list helps you find the conferences most helpful to you to level up your career and stay ahead in the ever-evolving world of UX!
