Events

UXPA Kansas City hosts skills workshops, panels, lectures, design critiques, career events, and more! Topics range from the latest trends in UX, to research and theory, to how to build UX practices for your business or organization. Many events are free and virtual.

monthly networking & happy hour

Typically the third Wednesday of each month, 4-5pm – Online

UXPA KC Happy Hours can go in almost any direction. Games, skillshares, cool UX tips and tricks, and knowledge-sharing about the KC area tech community – it all depends on who shows up!Grab a beverage, kick back and join the conversation!

free to register

upcoming events

Check back here for upcoming event info and links to register.

past events

The Case for UX Research and Frameworks to Make it Great

May 25, 2023

Join our webinar to learn how to make a compelling case for UX research using effective frameworks and strategies.

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Book Swap & UX Happy Hour

April 28, 2023

Share your favorite UX resources at happy hour!

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UX Futures | KC Design Week

April 20, 2023

UX Futures is a special event organized and presented by UXPA-KC for KC Design Week!

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The Future of Interaction: Designing User Experiences for AR/MR and VR

March 23, 2023

An exciting webinar focuses on designing immersive experiences for augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR), and virtual reality (VR)

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Build Your Own Ladder: How to Shape Your Career as a Product Designer

November 17, 2022

Kansas City area designers will share their journeys from being brand-new to the field, to becoming established UX practitioners

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The Art of Feedback: A VIRTUAL UX PORTFOLIO REVIEW

October 19, 2022

A virtual portfolio critique with two industry experts.

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Be Brave: A Design Thinking Workshop

July 25, 2022

In this workshop, Rachel Beser Brookes and Nevin Joyce use a design scenario to guide participants through a few different brave methodologies.

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Better Design Through Games: Using Playtesting to Improve Accessibility and UX

June 22, 2022

In this workshop, Angie Brunk and Dan Ireton will walk us through some techniques they’ve developed to explore accessibility in User Experience using games.

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Making the Case for World-class UX Inside an Organization

June 8, 2021

In this fireside chat, Paul will be discussing his experience and the challenges of transforming companies like Disney Interactive Studios, Rosetta Stone and Cerner into UX-led organizations.

The Write Partners: How to Work with a UX Writing Team

May 18, 2021

This talk will share best practices for collaborating, what every writer wants their design partner to know, why writers love style guides, and what to do if you don't have access to a writer. Plus, lots and lots of questions and conversations.

Consumer vs. Enterprise Design: A Panel Discussion

April 21, 2021

What is the difference between designing for enterprise vs. designing for consumer? If you are thinking about choosing a career path in one or the other, or are just interested in hearing about the differences in design, our panelists will let you in on their unique design process for each.

Robust UX Research Planning

March 24, 2021

A UX research plan is what turns your raw curiosity into a professional, tactical, and strategic exploration of a topic. With a solid and robust research plan, you can tackle projects with confidence, meet deadlines, and please stakeholders.

Empathic Design in Product Teams

February 16, 2021

This talk explores new empathic methods to capture the raw emotionality and depth of people's problems. And how to integrate this emotionality into the heart of a team building new products. How do we become more intentional when designing around human emotion? How do we include empaths and highly sensitive people (HSP) in our team? What is an HSP? And how do we engage with HSP type customers to learn faster and more deeply.”

People-First Culture + People-First Design

November 16, 2020

We're excited to have Justin Dauer present for UXPA Kansas City! Justin is a designer, speaker and the author of the celebrated book Cultivating a Creative Culture. Justin speaks internationally on culture and design, he is the Vice President of Human-Centered Design and Development at bswift and is a graduate of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Finding Our Way: The 2020 Kansas City UX Experience

September 30, 2020

Chris Jones is a Product design lead with FanThreeSixty in Kansas City. Chris will lead a three part discussion and brainstorm on what we as designers in Kansas City know, feel and can do as a result of our learnings in 2020.

(How) Does Fiction Inform Design?

June 25, 2020

What films or fiction inform the design work you do, and why might that matter?

recorded events

You can watch recordings of some past events on our YouTube channel.