Web Directions Conffab
Stream and download nearly 1,000 presentations from hundreds of world leading experts at 50 conferences…and counting
With free and paid levels, keep up to date with all that's happening in our industry at your own pace.
Conferences, meetups and more for the Australian UX and design industry–brought to you by the UX Australia and Web Directions.
Featuring
- Design ResearchAugust 26th
- UX AustraliaAugust 27th & 28th
- SideshowsAugust 24th–28th
web directions UX Australia Sydney August 2026
The conference at the heart of the Australian UX community
UX Australia | web directions Design Research Sydney August 2026
dedicated to design research
Sideshows
August 24th to 28th
Keen to host an event the week of UX Week Australia? Run your meetup, host an openhouse at your company or agency. With hundreds of industry professionals in town from all around Australia and beyond why not put on a show?
to make a proposal or to learn more
Find the right UX Week pass for you
Attend Design Research, UX Australia, or both events.
To make your budget go as far as possible, we have special pricing as follows. Choose your ticket type to see the associated price and the savings you can make.
Self-Funded is anyone paying their own way, regardless of who your employer might be. junior is someone in a junior or early-career role. edu is for anyone at an educational institution, could be an educator, but could be in another role. NFP is for anyone working at a not-for-profit. And Agency is for anyone working in an agency.
What's included?
In person
In-person conferences are fully catered (morning and afternoon tea and lunch) including any dietary requrements. Our conferences feature amazing coffee (and more). Code also features a reception.
Streaming
Streaming passes include access to the conference livestream on our very own platform Conffab, including live captioning and chat, access to the stream on demand after the event and to the conference videos when they become available.
Our venue
UX Week Australia including Dev Summit, Next, our workshops and closing night party 2024 will take place in November at UTS Sydney.
Getting there:
There are numerous public transport options, and parking available close by.
Accommodation:
If you're coming from out of town, there are many hotel and serviced apartment style accomodation options in and around the area.
Live Streaming
Not everyone is ready, or able to get back to in-person events. Others find online conferences provide greater accessibility. So we'll be streaming our two festival conferences, Dev Summit and Next on our very own streaming platform Conffab.
Drawing on our lessons of hosting over a dozen online conferences in recent years, streaming attendees will get live captions, and be able interact with in-person attendees, ask speakers questions, and feel a close as possible without being at the venue.
Partner with us
Keen to reach hundreds of the leading web engineers in the country? We bring them together in one place, fuel them with coffee and amazing talks and reignite their excitement.
We work closely with our partners and their technologies to deliver world leading online conferences. Contact us to talk more about how we work can work with you to help you be even more awesome.
Keep up to date with Announcements
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John Allsopp
John Allsopp has been working on the Web for nearly 30 years. He's been responsible for innovative developer tools such as Style Master and X-Ray, and his ideas formed the foundation for Typekit, now Adobe Fonts, and the entire concept of Responsive Web Design. He's spoken at numerous conferences around the World and delivered dozens of workshops in that time as well.
His writing includes several books, including Developing With Web Standards and countless articles and tutorials in print and online publications.
His "A Dao of Web Design" published in 2000 is cited by Ethan Marcotte as a key influence in the development of Responsive Web Design, who's acclaimed article in 2010 begins by quoting John in detail, and by Jeremy Keith as "a manifesto for anyone working on the Web".
John brings his deep knowledge of and passion for the web and all things digital to every aspect of Web Directions.
About Us
Co-founded and now run by John Allsopp, Web Directions has for nearly 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 spend our lives thinking about what comes next, keeping up with trends in technology, practices and processes, and filtering the hype, to make sure you don't miss trends that matter, and don't waste time on hype that doesn't.
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.
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.