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Bring your community to the global stage in 2022
We are a non-profit of communities, built for the communities. Our goal is to provide a global stage for grassroots UX communities, and to showcase UX stories from the field through them. Because we’ve all seen the shiny, the perfect, the ideal – but we rarely get to see the real and the different. From Malaysia to the US, from Switzerland to New Zealand, from Japan to Belarus, we want to show the world not just the global successes, but also the local peculiarities, struggles, and golden nuggets.
We all want to be better at what we do. But where to begin? What to learn next? How to plan our career? And Once we have figured that out – how do we help others grow?
This track is all about planning our own never-ending-learning, and figuring out how helping others can help us improve our own skills.
UX will remain an ever-changing field for years to come. What should we as UXers be tackling next? What roles to cooperate with most? How can we grow our relevance within the organization? What successes can we celebrate? What should we hold on to, and what can we throw away like paper prototypes?
This track is all about the UX practice, its growth, and future.
What can UX achieve in a wider stance? How can we improve our organizations? How can we improve the world? What impacts have we made? What opportunities have we missed? Are we dissolving problems, or are we just solving them, allowing them to re-emerge once again? How does UX fit into the grand theme of things? Will UX always be around?
This track is all about the wider context, UXers thinking about more than just UX.
Who can apply as community?
You should be a local organizer or educational institute, bringing together or training the UX designers, researchers, strategists, architects, writers, etc. in a city, region or country. You should have some experience under your belt, having organised at least a few community events or competitions. And you should be grassroots, meaning you do all this not because you are told or paid by someone, but because you want to create value locally.
What do you need to do?
It’s as easy as 1-2-3-4
How are participants selected?
Based on the topic relevance, location, and time of submission. The speaker’s seniority will not play a role in our decision. If you trust them, we trust them. The final decision will be made by the board of 24 Hours of UX. Our members cover Australia, Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, and South America. We’re pretty diverse too. So we won’t be biased.
When should you apply?
Right now! What are you waiting for? Applications should be sent no later than April 8th. The event takes place on June 7th, 8th, 9th – depending on where in the world you are. We start at 7am CEST.
Your contact details will only be used for communication about your participation at 24 Hours of UX 2021 event, and our future events. No information will be shared with any third party.
So who’s behind this initiative? People like you – practitioners – who in their spare time have been running their own communities, organizing live events in their respective cities, while live events were still possible. We cover 6 continents, and most of us have only ever met online.
Thousands of UX practitioners will be joining this event. Let’s get your brand center-stage.
24 Hours of UX is brought to you by a team of independent UX practitioners from all corners of the world.