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August 27th & 28th 2026 • Sydney

The conference at the heart of the Australian UX community

UX Australia is Australia’s premier conference about UX, product and service design, and the surrounding disciplines of research, content, operations, management, and more.

Connect with a global audience to share inspiration, insights and experiences — and join the peers, practitioners and leaders who can help with your challenges and be the bridge to your next opportunity.

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Find the conference pass for you

UX Australia is in Sydney on August 27th & 28th, 2026. Choose the pass that suits you — prices rise after each early-bird date.

Ticket type:

Design Research + UX Australia in person

$1,595ends 17 Jul

  • In person, 3 days
  • All conference videos

$1,395 before 31 Jan, $1,595 before 17 Jul, $1,795 full price

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UX Australia in person

$1,095ends 17 Jul

  • In person, 2 days
  • All conference videos

$995 before 31 Jan, $1,095 before 17 Jul, $1,195 full price

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Design Research in person

$595ends 17 Jul

  • In person, 1 day
  • All conference videos

$495 before 31 Jan, $595 before 17 Jul, $695 full price

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UX Australia Streaming

$595ends 17 Jul

  • Live stream
  • All conference videos

$495 before 31 Jan, $595 before 17 Jul

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Design Research Streaming

$345ends 17 Jul

  • Live stream
  • All conference videos

$295 before 31 Jan, $345 before 17 Jul, $395 full price

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Design Research + UX Australia streaming

$695ends 26 Aug

  • Both conferences, live stream
  • All conference videos

$695 before 26 Aug

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UX Australia

Since 2009, UX Australia has been Australia’s premier conference about UX, product and service design, and the surrounding disciplines of research, content, operations, management, and more.

The UX Australia audience.
Portrait of Steve Baty.

Steve Baty

Steve was the inaugural CEO of the Australian Design Council, co-founder of Meld Studios and co-founder of UX Australia. He is a Director of the Product Stewardship Centre of Excellence and served two years as the President of the Interaction Design Association.

Web Directions

Web Directions has for 2 decades years brought together leading developers, engineers, visual, IxD, UX and product designers, Art and Creative Directors, product managers indeed everyone involved in producing web and digital products to learn from one another, and the World's leading experts across this vast field.

We promise attending one of our events will leave you significantly better versed in the challenges you face day to day, and in solutions for addressing them.

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Portait of John Allsopp.

John Allsopp

John Allsopp has worked on the web for nearly 30 years, creating innovative tools like Style Master and X-Ray. His ideas laid the groundwork for Typekit (now Adobe Fonts) and Responsive Web Design itself.

His seminal 2000 essay "A Dao of Web Design" was cited by Ethan Marcotte as a key inspiration for Responsive Web Design and by Jeremy Keith as "a manifesto for anyone working on the Web." He's authored books including Developing With Web Standards, spoken at conferences worldwide, and brings deep expertise and passion to Web Directions

Code of Conduct

For over a decade, we've worked hard to create inclusive, fun, inspring and safe events for the Web Industry.

As part of our commitment to these values, we've adopted a code of conduct for all involved: ourselves, our speakers, our partners and our audience.

If you have any concern or feedback, please don't hesitate to contact us.