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

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.”

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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.

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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.

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(How) Does Fiction Inform Design?

June 25, 2020

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

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Decoding Web Accessibility

May 25, 2020

In this presentation, Andrew Patterson—software developer for Emfluence—will share his knowledge and expertise on accessibility design and best practices.

The Magic of Semantic IxD

April 12, 2020

In this guest lecture, Professor Rosenburg will introduce Semantic Interaction Design, an innovative method that spans all the way from core conceptual models to the deployment of applied game theory techniques to create optimal experiences for users.

Growing and Sustaining a Design Career

April 7, 2020

A career coaching workshop series in three acts.

Digital Collaboration Workshop

March 23, 2020

Digital collaboration is only possible when you have a foundation of a learning culture, empowered team, and clear communication. With those in place, the right tools and processes will equip your team to collaborate and perform better than they ever have before.

Designing for Unhappy Paths

January 20, 2020

In this talk, Lauren will provide methods of integrating this thinking into implementation. She will cover best practices for alerts, errors, and other communication strategies using elements such as language and tone, color, timing and context, recovery, escape, and more.

recorded events

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