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

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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Creating an Accessibility Minded UX Culture

May 23, 2022

In this conversation, Ted Gies (Web Accessibility and UX leader for Elsevier) will share examples of “walking the walk” on accessibility.

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Designing the Future: Practical Methods for Collaborative Innovation

April 28, 2022

In this workshop, we’ll unpack what innovation means for your design practice, how to enable it, and how to leverage practical frameworks to achieve it, personally and professionally, alone or in teams.

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Pecha Kucha Night: KC Area UX Designers Talk About UX

March 24, 2022

20 Slides. 20 Seconds Each. Kansas City area UX Designers have lined up to share lightning quick talks about UX topics that are close to their heart.

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Conversational Design: Create Successful Customer Interactions

October 5, 2021

In this session, we'll explore why CXD is an important platform shift and how to start incorporating the processes, methods and materials into your business.

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Design Effectively Using Three Dimensional Discovery

September 8, 2021

This cooperative session will help you navigate challenges in research and create space for you to share how you've done so in your context.

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Ethnography for Design

August 4, 2021

This presentation discusses what ethnography is and why a holistic approach to understanding users yields breakthrough UX.

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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.

(How) Does Fiction Inform Design?

June 25, 2020

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

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.