A list of awesome UX meetups in the UK

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People for Research
4 min readApr 19, 2024

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  • “A community of women in UX who support each other, push the UX boundaries, and promote skill and talent.”
  • Dozens of chapters and a worldwide presence.

  • “An established community, bringing together UX and product design enthusiasts in London to meet and share ideas, experiences, tools, trends, best working practices etc. We aim to provide the whole UX community, whatever their level, with a regular meeting place to share knowledge from their own past experiences.”
  • Based in London. Their most recent event was held in February and it was about the impact of AI in user experience.

✨ London UX Knowledge Exchange

  • “The purpose of this group is to share the knowledge and provide recommendations to anyone who has any questions about UX. This group is for designers (UI, UX, product, service) as well as for software engineers, product managers, product owners, QA engineers, UX and any other types of researchers, business analysts, marketing specialists, stakeholders and start-up founders.”
  • Based in London. Their next event will be held on 17th May and the topic is ‘UX design process that works’.

✨ Wicked Design Club

  • “For all designers in tech who are interested in sharing your career stories, design tips with others.”
  • Based in London, but holds a weekly online meeting about ‘Diving into UX design’ every Saturday, at 2pm.

✨ Bristol Usability Group

  • “A friendly network of UX professionals, managers and academics based in the South West of the UK. We also organise the annual UXBristol conference.”
  • Based in Bristol. Their most recent event was held in January and it was all about the relationship between artificial intelligence and UX.

✨ Agile Bath & Bristol

  • “We are a group of agile practitioners and enthusiasts living and working in the South West of England. This group is open to anyone interested in lean and agile ideas and practices.”
  • Based in the South West of England, with a presence in Bath and Bristol. Their next event will be held on 23rd April and it will be about ‘Innovating with impact’.

✨ Edinburgh User Experience Meetup

  • “A monthly meeting of minds — a place to share ideas and indulge in idle banter. Each meeting has general theme — just a suggestion to get things rolling, conversationally speaking anything goes!”
  • Based in Edinburgh, this group meets on the last Monday of every month.

✨ UX Glasgow

  • “An informal, co-operative monthly meetup. We welcome everyone who cares about user experience — no matter whether you’re a client, a visual designer, an information architect, a copywriter, a developer or a usability specialist.”
  • Based in Glasgow. Their next event will be held on 1st May and it will be about ‘Literalism & co-design for inclusion’.

  • “Consistently bringing you great speakers since 2011. Every month we invite a speaker to come and talk about how they apply user experience principles in their projects and organisations.”
  • Based in Oxford. Their most recent even happened on 16th April and it focused on ‘LLMs and the evolution of UI’.

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