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.

How The Futur Started as a Side Project Chris Do

Designing Your Team Before You Hire Jessa Parette

Remote Sketching Shipra Kayan

Webinar: Key Insights from the Design Tools Survey 2020 Taylor Palmer

Finding your Dolphin Liam Thurston

Values-Driven Design Levon Sharrow

How You Can Build Your Side Projects Using Editor X Gali Erez

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

Operationalizing Design from the Ground Up Anne Purves

Automation in Side Projects Stephanie Eckles

Service Design in Government Chris Govias

Getting Loud: How Bias Impacts Voice Eiko Kawano

I love good meetings Milena Tasic

Designing Culture Michelle Morrison

Cross Functional Design Collaboration Jadyn Aguilar

Managing Your Finances as a Freelancer Mohammed Asaduallah

Growing & Scaling Side Projects Carly Ayres

Facilitation Can Give You a Seat at the Table Shipra Kayan

Creating a Paid Newsletter Subscription Rosie Sherry

Design & Distributed Teams Shipra Kayan

Data Informed Design Pantelis Korovilas

Designing Design Tools Gleb Sabirzyanov

Design Mentoring and Open Source as a Design Opportunity.Eriol Fox

Design System Adoption Is Hard - Let’s Solve It With Better Tools Jiri Trecak

Danielle Juneau: Usability Testing 101 Danielle Juneau

Design is a Team Sport Jared Spool

Dirty Little Tricks From Dark Corners of eCommerce Vitaly Friedman

Design Systems in Practice Kat Davis

Leveraging E2E User Journeys for Decision-making, Alignment, and Agile Product Development.Marimar Suarez

Using Stories to Inspire Teams Davis Neable

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.

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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: