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UX Design

Pixel Pioneers Bristol 2026

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ixel Pioneers Bristol is an affordable one-day conference of practical and inspiring front-end and UX/UI design talks. The 2026 edition features eight world-class speakers and covers topics including browser support, AI, low-carbon web design, web performance metrics, accessibility, design systems, collaboration between designers and developers, and more. T…

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9Voices
11Underwriters
0Exhibitors
9On the bill · sessions
13Companies · in total
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The Voices

Programmed at Pixel, in alphabetical order.
Candi Williams
Content and UX design leader and coach
Christine Vallaure
Heydon Pickering
Kardo Ayoub
Luke Murphy
Matt Zeunert
Morgane Peng
Managing Director, Product Design & AI Transformation at Societe Generale CIB · Societe Generale CIB
Nick Lewis
Rachel Andrew
Content Lead for Chrome DevRel at Google · Google
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Underwritten By

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
DebugBear
DevITjobs
Grandma Knows
GS-JJ
GURU
Mindful Design
Set Studio
State of the Browser
TetraLogical
Vivaldi
zeroheight
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The Programme

Selected from 9 sessions on the bill.
  • 10:15

    Dev x Design x PM: A Trio in Transition

    The classic Developer x Designer x PM trio is supposed to work like a well-oiled machine… but in reality, it's often three people arguing over who broke the designs, who forgot the…

  • 11:15

    Designing and Building for the Low-Carbon Web

    Have you ever considered the environmental impact of your digital work? Have you felt stuck, not knowing what you can do within your role? In this talk, we will explore how design…

  • 12:00

    Where Do Your Web Performance Metrics Come From?

    Superficially, different page speed testing tools are very similar. But a look under the hood reveals why they often report different metric values for the same website. In this t…

  • 12:20

    Well, I Didn’t See That Coming!

    Join us for a fun, light-hearted, and eye-opening (pun intended!) journey through the world of design, as Kardo shares his personal story of becoming a visually impaired designer. …

  • 14:30

    Lightning Talk: Design Systems are Dead. Long Live Design Systems

    Design systems need to die — or at least, design systems as we know them. The way we've commodified the discipline, wrapped it in jargon, and positioned ourselves as a "different" …

  • 14:55

    Understanding Layout Between UI Design and Code

    Designers and developers often approach layout with different mental models, especially around grids, spacing, and responsiveness. That disconnect leads to friction and broken expe…

  • 16:00

    Language: The Secret Sauce of Great UX

    Good, helpful, useful, readable content is at the heart of good design. So, why is it so often seen as an afterthought? This talk hones in on how we can change that, delving into …

  • 16:45

    Making HTML Make Music

    The <img/> element was available in 1995. We had to wait another 15 years for <audio/>. There’s still little we can do with sound in HTML, except play, or stop, something already r…

  • 9:30

    A Pragmatic Guide to Browser Support

    It’s tempting to think of Baseline as creating a hard line. If a feature isn’t Baseline, then it’s not ready for use. However, we all know that web development is a world of “it de…

Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

An audience of 13 companies, parsed from the program.

Thirteen companies in attendance.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page — cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

01Fig. 01 — Composition of the House
0All threespeak · spons · exh
11Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
2Speakingspeaker only
02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority

11% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • Director / Head of111%
  • Manager / Lead111%
  • Other roles778%

Of 9 on the bill · classified by free-text title

03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01DebugBearSp
  2. 02DevITjobsSp
  3. 03Grandma KnowsSp
  4. 04GS-JJSp
  5. 05GURUSp
  6. 06Mindful DesignSp
  7. 07Set StudioSp
  8. 08State of the BrowserSp
  9. 09TetraLogicalSp
  10. 10VivaldiSp
  11. 11zeroheightSp
  12. 12Google1V
  13. 13Societe Generale CIB1V
04Fig. 04 — By Tier
unspecified11
100% of 11

In the same series

Prior and forthcoming editions