Curating Experiences for Our Community

We intend to bring together all design disciplines at the intersection of business, design and technology. Beyond our local chapter events, workshops and webinars, we also organize a few annual conferences.

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Design Leadership Summit 2025

We’re leveling up! 🔥 Introducing Design Leadership Summit 2025! 🎉 This year feels more like a community than a conference, especially if you joined us at TIFF Lightbox! ✨

With an exciting speaker lineup, enhanced programming, and more roundtables, DLS 2025 is a must-attend event!

Grab your SUPER EARLY BIRD tickets for just $349 (full price: $649) for our 2-day programming!

P.S.: 🎤 Speaker applications for DLS 2025 are also open! If you’re interested in joining us on stage for a talk or a panel: fill out the application form here.

Design Talks Library

Learn from the best of design leaders and global design teams we’ve hosted at our DesignX events and conferences.

Experiences of womxn of color in UX design Karen Ni

Expert Outsiders Kris Woyzbun

Humanizing Technology: Ethics and Design in the Age of AI Katrina Alcorn

Design & Distributed Teams Shipra Kayan

How to Talk About Design Ainsley Wagoner

Four Archetypes of the Complete Design Leader Peter Merholz

Designing for Voice Hilary Hayes

How do you connect with the people who use your product?Benjamin Hersh

The New Balance of Things Martin Kool

Growing & Scaling Side Projects Carly Ayres

Visualizing Design Tokens at Scale Nahiyan Khan

Dirty Little Tricks From Dark Corners of eCommerce Vitaly Friedman

How to Deconstruct a User Interface Bob Baxley

Bridging the distance Zachary Yorke

Cross Functional Design Collaboration Kevin Muise

Designing Design Tools Gleb Sabirzyanov

Operationalizing Design from the Ground Up Anne Purves

Service Design in Government Chris Govias

Automation in Side Projects Stephanie Eckles

Design Jobs AMA with Dave Malouf, Northwestern Mutual Dave Malouf

Stop Solving Problems Steve Portigal

Using Stories to Inspire Teams Davis Neable

Platform Design & Content Strategy Elizabeth McGuane

Leading Growth Driven Design Chetana Deorah

Scaling Design Collaboration Josh Brewer

Danielle Juneau: Usability Testing 101 Danielle Juneau

Work life balance without discounting your income Josiah Duinkerk

How to Shift From a Critique Culture to a Workshop Culture Samantha Berg

Embracing the Chaos Thomas Lowry

Oh, the places you’ll go! (by taking a fresh look at stale processes)Shelby Bower

Community Initiatives

Slack Community

Forge new connections and expand your professional network in a vibrant and thriving community.

In Person Events

Immerse yourself in an atmosphere of enthusiasm as you engage in interactive activities designed to spark creativity and ignite your passion.

Design Jobs

Browse opportunities with leading organizations and teams, shared by our community leaders and members.

Salary Repository

Promoting salary transparency & pay equity amongst design professionals across industries, experience levels & geographies.

UX, Design & Research Jobs

Design Director

Senior Product Designer

Freelance Graphic Designer

Senior Content Designer, Design Systems

Lead UI/UX Designer

Design Innovation Associate

Senior UX Designer, Employee Experience

Lead Product Designer

What our members say about us

Kaejon

Freelance Brand Strategist & Identity Designer

Great panel discussion @WeAreDesignX thank you so much for talking about great these great topics as giving me your insights. @tranhelen @jeremybell @trinaboos #WeAreDesignX

Aidan McVea

Sr Product Design @productboard

Big thanks to all the great speakers + the @WeAreDesignX team who made my first trip to toronto so worthwhile. Extra special shout out to @tareqismail @designonmymind @tanadeo for being my personal favourite speakers of the event #designleadership

Hannah

UX Designer at Manulife

At the @WeAreDesignX ladders event today. So great to have an event geared to newish designers and answering hard q's. Thank you to all the speakers and volunteers! 👏👏👏

Phil Hedayatnia

Designer & Cofounder @airfoilstudio

Thanks @WeAreDesignX for having us yesterday in Toronto! Great talking about where web3 is headed and how @AirfoilStudio is trying to help us all get there by reducing onboarding friction.

Getting involved

As we are ramping up our in-person events, there are many ways to get involved with us! If you’re interested in volunteering, speaking, or sponsoring, we would love to hear from you: