BigDesign 2020 is just a few hours away!  Here are the answers to your most frequently asked questions: How does a virtual conference work? This year’s conference will be hosted on Crowdcast, an integrated streaming platform that is designed for the purpose of attendee engagement. Over the course of four days, we’ll be streaming twenty-four... Read More

We are happy to announce that Dialexa is a Silver Sponsor of Big Design 2020. Dialexa is the arsenal behind the world’s largest and most successful companies, delivering world-class experiences and revolutionary products. Our Research and Design practice starts with product strategy and ends with solutions with user experiences that enable elegant solutions to complex... Read More

We are happy to announce that 7-Eleven is a Silver Sponsor of Big Design 2020. They have been a long-time partner of the conference. Here are a few fun facts about 7-Eleven: The company was started in 1946 They consider July 11 (or 7/11) to be their birthday. They giveaway 500,000 gallons of free Slurpees... Read More

Join Alesha Arp for a free webinar on Wed., Sept 9 at 6 pm on the Usage Maturity Matrix. Participants will learn what a usage maturity matrix is and how to create one. We will then break out into a collaborative exercise in which participants will round out a usage maturity matrix and then use it... Read More

Missing the days of generating ideas visually with your teams in person? Come get your creative fix during this one hour session with MURAL, a digital workplace solution enabling innovative teams to collaborate in real-time using large, immersive canvases. You will do energizers and warm-ups with other Big Design attendees, then join us in discussing... Read More

In a year of many firsts, the Big Design Conference is proud to announce its first-ever intern: Jade Angustia!  Jade Angustia (BS’22) is currently a sophomore at University of North Texas in Frisco. She is among the first cohort in the highly-innovative Project, Design, and Analysis (PDA) program. A interactive, project-based learning program, PDA places students... Read More

Big Design Conference is known for its research and strategy talks each year. With the impact of COVID-19, people have became very creative with their research and strategy since the start of the year. Here are research and strategy talks at Big Design 2020: Arguing for Less User-friendly Futures Usage Maturity Matrix: A Tool Design for... Read More

Big Design Conference 2020 has five amazing keynote speakers in four days. We’ve never had this many keynotes at any of our previous conferences. Your keynote speakers come from a variety of backgrounds. The Big Design 2020 keynotes are: Tracey Kelly. Envisioing Lead on the Catalyst Team at Microsoft. She is about to publish a... Read More

At Big Design 2020, we are providing bonus content for all our attendees. You can consume them at your convenience. These videos are real-world case studies from new voices and industry experts. Our first bonus content is from Christian Knebel and Yeri Bridgette Olengue. Before COVID-19, Christian and Yeri worked on a project to re-imagine... Read More

At Big Design, we were talking about DesignOps before the term existed. Career talks are populare because they help you with job searches, transitioning into leadership roles, improving team collaboration, dealing with difficult personalities, building a better portfolio, and more. Here are some of the career talks at Big Design 2020: The Power of Storytelling... Read More

We are happy to announce that Sabre is a Silver Sponsor of Big Design 2020. They have been a long-time partner of the conference. At this year’s conference, you can learn from the Sabre experts: Dana Walter. UX Partner at Sabre. She will be moderating the panel on Collaborating with a Multi-Generational Team Anita Barraco.... Read More

We are happy to announce that the College of Business at DBU is a Silver Sponsor of the 2020 Big Design Conference.  The College of Business desires to graduate servant leaders who will make eternally meaningful contributions in their field of study, their communities, and throughout the world. It is their second time to sponsor... Read More

Sara Conklin is a collaborative and results-driven design leader. She drives business results by transforming organizational culture. She has spent her career creating business success through design thinking and experience design for Fortune 500 companies in different industries. These days, Sara works to democratize and infuse design thinking throughout a 14,000+ employee organization. She’s a... Read More

Sanjay Shah is a product designer at Dialexa and creator of 20TWENTY. He is going to lead a panel discussion on an education initiative on how companies can partner with college universities to build the next generation of designers, researchers, and strategists. Students work on a real-world design challenge, while receiving mentoring from professionals and... Read More

This year’s Big Design conference gets even bigger with an extra day of talks, panels, workshops, and keynotes on Wednesday, Sept. 9.  The talks for this extra day include: The Power of Storytelling within Visual Communication from Nikos Georgópoulos Surprise Guest to be announced Keynote: Design Thinking and Agile by Tracey Kelly Dialexa EDU: Mentoring a... Read More

No conference is possible without the hard work and dedication of the conference organizers. At the Big Design Conference 2020, we want to take a moment to acknowledge the organizers. This group of organizers have a saying: Design leaders build future design leaders. This year’s conference theme is: Building a Future Legacy. This year’s organizers... Read More