Introducing Huy Nguyen, 2021 Big Design Scholar
For 2021, Big Design has awarded two design scholarships at UNT to based upon a pemanent endowment set up in the College of Visual Arts... Read More
UTD and UNT Students Sketchnote Big Design 2021 Talks
For the past few years, we student volunteers from design programs at UT Dallas and UNT have sketchnoted and live blogged Big Design Conference talks.... Read More
SMU is a Silver Sponsor
We welcome SMU back as a Silver sponsor of the Big Design Conference. It is an on-going partnership that dates back several years. Over the... Read More
Re-thinking the Human Experience in the Enterprise
DeWayne Esson and Branco Kuznar work as designers at The Home Depot, where they advocate for a better employee experience. At Big Design Conference 2021,... Read More
10 Minute Talks Ahead of Big Design 2021
We are hosting our annual meetup called 10 Minute Talks Ahead of Big Design on Wednesday, September 22nd beginning at 6:30pm CDT. It is an... Read More
Big Design 2021 Music by Vince Cimo
We are happy to announce that Vince Cimo will be providing the conference music for Big Design 2021. He is a certified artist on Spotify.... Read More
Love-Centered Design
What is more important to you? a. Designing a delightful user experience b. Self-love, intimacy, peace, and freedom If your answer is the latter, join... Read More
Designing Beyond Products: Case Study in Restorative Justice
Design thinking and user research are increasingly standardized, predictable, and “deliverable” in their methodology. As designers, we reference precise Venn diagrams that show the intersection... Read More
Mentorship Panel: Experience is the Teacher
Jan Ballard leads a discussion on o mentorship case study of an ongoing industry/academic program in Dallas–Fort Worth that brings professionals at Dialexa together with... Read More
How We Do the Work Matters
We have told ourselves and each other for years that we should be happy with small victories — we worked with our teams to make... Read More
Be a Cultivator of Ideas
One of the UX Designer’s primary roles to not generate all the ideas, but to cultivate ideas from all of the various stakeholders in a... Read More
Queer Global: A Case Study in Designing for Dignity
This talk will highlight the UX work of the Queer Global team to design for dignity in the specific areas of accessibility and universal design,... Read More
Adopt and Adapt: A Jump-Start Strategy for Driving Experience Culture
Designing for Dignity — effectively, consistently, and at scale — requires a full toolkit of experience standards, governance, and training. The problem? Developing such a... Read More
Panel Discussion: From Toxicity to Dignity (How Gamers Create a Communication Space)
Toxicity is so widespread in our online communities, it is hard to imagine a future without it. Multiplayer gaming is no different, but our research... Read More
You Have a Seat at the Table: Now What?
During last year’s conference, I spoke about getting a seat at the table through UX measurement. The title of the talk was: “Seat at the... Read More
Concept Testing with Confidence
When going from zero to one with a new feature, product, or service, it is crucial to find out if your solution is useful before... Read More
Crushing Constraints as a Marginalized Group
As designers, we take pride in what we do. Creating experiences to improve the lives of many despite the constraints of budgets, technology, and the... Read More
Look Who’s Talking: How to Make Designers Work Amiably
There are more than 60 designers at DataArt, all of them distributed between Russia, Ukraine, Argentina, and other countries. Sometimes, we staff the project with... Read More
Never Ask “Why”: Running Design Critiques in an Agile World
Asking “why” in design critiques invariably puts the designer into a defensive position: “Why did you do it this way?” or worse “Why _didn’t_ you... Read More
Panel: Authors of 97 Things UX Practitioners Should Know
Dan Berlin moderates a panel of authors from the O’REILLY book called 97 Things UX Practitioners Should Know. It is an Amazon bestseller in many... Read More