UX Design

Button 2026

Button 2026 brings together content design professionals from around the world for two days of intensive learning and camaraderie. Held online, the event features workshops, panels, and the latest insights for content designers who want to connect and grow in their field.

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40Speakers
12Sponsors
175On the bill · sessions
46Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at Button, in alphabetical order.
Alisa Bonsignore
Sustainable Content Strategist & Author · Clarifying Complex Ideas
Amanda Costello
Strategist and Bureaucromancer · Independent
Amit Singh
Staff Content Designer · Intuit
Angie King
Marketing Content Manager · Mayo Clinic
Arin Black
Senior Content Design Leader · Atlassian
Audrey Ross
Senior Content Designer · Skylight
Ayanfe Adewoye
Lead Content Designer · Hinge
Beth Keller Kirycki
Sr. UX Researcher & Assoc. Professor · Purdue University Fort Wayne
Bryan Kelly
Senior Content Designer · Adobe
Cat Overman
Principal Content Designer, Information Architecture · Zillow
Claudia Francesca Mueller
Head of Language Excellence · Trusted Shops
David Connis
Founder · System Design Lab
David Dylan Thomas
Founder, CEO · David Dylan Thomas, LLC
Emma Pindera
Content Strategist · PointClickCare
Erin White
UX Director, Design Engineering · Citizens
Hannah Barrett
Senior UX Content Designer · Amazon
Himali Kelvekar
Content Designer 2 · Microsoft Ireland
Jenny Mero
Manager, Product Experimentation · Comcast
Kate Agena
VP of Content Design · SAP
Khairul Bahriah
Senior UX Writer · Soundtrack
Kim Bennett
Principal Content Design Manager · Microsoft
Kim Mats Mats
Founder and Strategist · Three Lines
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
AtlassianPremier
Career Strategy LabIn-kind
Clarifying Complex IdeasIn-kind
Content Design HubIn-kind
Content Design LeadersIn-kind
DittoSupporting
Information Architecture Conference: IACIn-kind
Interaction Design FoundationIn-kind
The LavaCon ConferenceIn-kind
ThroughlineIn-kind
University of Washington Communication LeadershipSupporting
UX Content CollectiveIn-kind
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Agenda

Selected from 175 sessions on the bill.
  • Friday, September 25 10:10 am–10:45 am CDT

    Fixing bias in UX content before AI scales it

    Main conference: Day 2
  • Friday, September 25 10:50 am–11:25 am CDT

    Strategic eras: What Taylor Swift’s reinvention strategy teaches content designers

    Main conference: Day 2
  • Friday, September 25 11:45 am–12:20 pm CDT

    Context is the new copy: Content design in the age of AI

    Main conference: Day 2
  • Friday, September 25 12:25 pm–1:25 pm CDT

    What got us here won’t get us there: Repositioning content design for what’s next

    Main conference: Day 2
  • Friday, September 25 1:55 pm–2:55 pm CDT

    Designing AI evaluations that reflect human judgment

    Watch Parties
  • Friday, September 25 1:55 pm–2:55 pm CDT

    Designing the decision layer: A rich career path for systems-oriented content designers

    Watch Parties
  • Friday, September 25 1:55 pm–2:55 pm CDT

    LLMs for microcopy: Why a custom system beats a good prompt

    Watch Parties
  • Friday, September 25 1:55 pm–2:55 pm CDT

    Localization is not just translation: Building global UX content systems with AI

    Watch Parties
  • Friday, September 25 1:55 pm–2:55 pm CDT

    Why custom systems beat generic prompting for microcopy

    Watch Parties
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 46 companies show up, and 3 bet on three roles at once?

46 companies. three are betting more than once.

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Who's in the room
3All threespeak · spons · exh
9Sponsoringsponsor only
34Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Atlassian·Clarifying Complex Ideas·UX Content Collective

Speakers by seniority

38% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite38%
  • Founder / Owner38%
  • VP-level13%
  • Director / Head of820%
  • Manager / Lead1025%
  • Engineer · IC718%
  • Research / Science13%
  • Marketing / Brand13%
  • Other roles615%

Of 40 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01AtlassianSp·P2V
  2. 02Clarifying Complex IdeasSp·I1V
  3. 03UX Content CollectiveSp·I1V
  4. 04Career Strategy LabSp·I
  5. 05Content Design HubSp·I
  6. 06Content Design LeadersSp·I
  7. 07DittoSp·S
  8. 08Independent3V
  9. 09Information Architecture Conference: IACSp·I
  10. 10Interaction Design FoundationSp·I
  11. 11The LavaCon ConferenceSp·I
  12. 12ThroughlineSp·I
  13. 13University of Washington Communication LeadershipSp·S
  14. 14Adobe1V
Sponsors by tier
in-kind9
75% of 12
premier1
8% of 12
supporting2
17% of 12
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