DesignUp Festival 2026 is where the worlds of design, technology, and product intersect. This year, the theme is 'Design At Cross-Roads', focused on how generative AI, evolving toolsets, and the changing landscape of design are reshaping roles, expectations, and possibilities. Attendees engage in workshops, talks, panels, and networking events, amidst a gath…
Programmed at DesignUp, in alphabetical order.
Selected from 82 sessions.
Ten years in, DesignUp26 opens its big stage - at a crossroads between AI and craft, speed and taste. A look back at a decade, and a grand welcome for the decade to come.
This is your opportunity to break through from 2D to 3D, to leverage natural interaction techniques, and prepare yourself for the future of design. Moving beyond the flat glass rec…
Most productivity systems assume we're rational - that if we plan well, we'll follow through. But creative work is emotional and identity-linked; execution is shaped less by time t…
Careers are rarely linear anymore. Titles blur, paths zigzag, pauses happen - yet we still describe growth as tidy timelines and ladders. Cartography offers an alternative: a metho…
Play is the state where humans are most open, most creative, most willing to take the risks that produce something genuinely new - which is everything design thinking asks of us. S…
AI has collapsed the cost of making - fifty variations, twenty copy options, a working prototype in minutes. When production is instant, the scarce skill is no longer "can you make…
Day two of the Decade begins. Fresh energy, fresh talks, and more of the crossroads still ahead of us. Let's pick up right where yesterday left off.
UX has survived the web, mobile, and lean/agile - each first arriving as a threat before becoming an opportunity. A look through decades of archives at the pattern behind AI's arri…
Designers and social sector leaders are working inside a contract they didn't write - one that's rapidly being rewritten around them. A case for becoming intentional authors of wha…
An audience of 26 companies, parsed from the program.
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