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UX & Product Design

UXLx: User Experience Lisbon 2026

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XLx: User Experience Lisbon is an annual 4-day conference dedicated to UX training, bringing together hundreds of designers, researchers, and leaders from around the world. This event features intensive leadership and strategy masterclasses, hands-on workshops, and inspirational talks covering all the latest in UX techniques. Attendees can also enjoy expand…

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9Voices
9Underwriters
0Exhibitors
22On the bill · sessions
15Companies · in total
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The Voices

Programmed at UXLx:, in alphabetical order.
Christopher Noessel
UX Veteran, Author, and Public Speaker
Dave Brown
Design Director at Qualtrics · Qualtrics
Doug Powell
Lead Lecturer at iF Design · iF Design
Emily DiLeo
Research Operations and Knowledge Management Consultant at The Current · The Current
Marianne Ashton-Booth
Head of Product Design and Design Systems at ITVX · ITVX
Noz Urbina
Principal Consultant at Urbina Consulting · Urbina Consulting
Sarah Thompson
Senior Experience Specialist at Nielsen Norman Group · Nielsen Norman Group
Sylvie Abookire
Service & Systemic Designer, Design Educator, and Coach
Zalihata Ahamada
Design Ops Leader and Service Designer
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Underwritten By

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
IDEA
Leuchtturm1917Silver Partner
O ReillySilver Partner
Rosenfeld MediaSilver Partner
SketchSilver Partner
Sticker AppSilver Partner
Tap PortugalOfficial Carrier
Turismo LisboaPlatinum Partner
XperienzOrganizer
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The Programme

Selected from 22 sessions on the bill.
  • Fri 15 May 10:00

    Stepping Up to Leadership

    Many UX designers aspire to leadership, but the path is rarely clear. Moving beyond a craft-focused role requires new skills, new mindsets, and a broader understanding of how organ…

  • Fri 15 May 10:30

    Mindful Conflict Navigation

    As service designers, we are adept at listening well, understanding complex interactions between people and within systems, and identifying creative opportunities. As members of wo…

  • Fri 15 May 11:30

    Inclusive Collaboration Against Algorithmic Bubbles

    Collaboration and inclusion are on everyone’s roadmap, but in practice many decisions are still shaped by a narrow set of voices, amplified by algorithms and AI that keep feeding u…

  • Fri 15 May 12:00

    Content Modelling for Scalable Reuse

    Content is frequently copied or recreated for every channel, every campaign, every product update. It's inefficient, and often worse for users and brands. This session introduces …

  • Fri 15 May 12:30

    Ancient Wisdom for Modern Design

    In a world where designers can prototype products in minutes, ship features faster than ever, and build with increasingly powerful AI tools, one question still matters most: what d…

  • Fri 15 May 14:30

    Designing for AI

    For years, building SaaS products meant designing how a user would complete a task on their own. With AI, that’s changing. The user is now collaborating with a system that can act,…

  • Fri 15 May 15:00

    Beyond Experience

    Using examples from public service design, this talk challenges consumer UX models and the idea of design as neutral. People can’t opt out of public services, while frontline staff…

  • Fri 15 May 15:30

    The Wobbly Chair

    This talk looks at design's relationship with legibility, and reflects on how we, as an industry, are navigating uncertainty in our field during a period where things seem to chang…

  • Fri 15 May 16:30

    Designing What Matters

    This talk explores the tension between measurable evidence and human judgement in modern product design. Drawing on examples from UX research, behavioural insights and creative pra…

Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

An audience of 15 companies, parsed from the program.

Fifteen 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
9Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
6Speakingspeaker only
02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority

22% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • Director / Head of222%
  • Manager / Lead222%
  • Engineer · IC333%
  • Research / Science111%
  • Other roles111%

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

03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01iDEASp
  2. 02Leuchtturm1917Sp·S
  3. 03O'ReillySp·S
  4. 04Rosenfeld MediaSp·S
  5. 05SketchSp·S
  6. 06Sticker AppSp·S
  7. 07Tap PortugalSp·O
  8. 08Turismo LisboaSp·P
  9. 09XperienzSp·O
  10. 10iF Design1V
  11. 11ITVX1V
  12. 12Nielsen Norman Group1V
  13. 13Qualtrics1V
  14. 14The Current1V
04Fig. 04 — By Tier
official carrier1
11% of 9
organizer1
11% of 9
platinum partner1
11% of 9
silver partner5
56% of 9
unspecified1
11% of 9