Call for

Speakers

Accepting submissions until June 2nd!

Thanks for your interest in submitting a session to UX Y’all 2024.

Our Theme: Blueprints of User Experience.

Whether you’re building a website, a cabin, or a castle, you need a blueprint. Tell us about the blueprints that you use in your work--your design patterns, your frameworks, your maps to success and what you learned from your failures in an ever-changing UX landscape.

Blueprints of User Experience

Blueprints of User Experience

Before Submitting

Please read the following before submitting your proposal.

  • Free registration for speakers: All speakers and co-speakers will receive a complimentary ticket to UX Y'all. (Travel expenses will not be covered.)

  • Deadline: June 2, 2024. No late submissions will be considered.

  • Blind review process: Do not include any identifying information in your session description. Avoid using speaker names, companies, products, email addresses, or affiliation statuses. We strive for a diverse body of presenters, so do optionally include requested information on speaker diversity if you'd like that to be considered in the selection process.

  • Editing your session: If you need to make changes to your submission, please email info@triuxpa.org by the deadline. After the deadline has passed, you cannot change the proposal.

  • Submission limit: No more than two submissions per person please. (This includes being a second speaker or panelist in another session.)

  • Location priority: Some priority will be given to local speakers.

  • Theme fit: Submissions will be evaluated for overall quality, relevance to UX as a profession, fit with community needs, and theme.

  • In-person presentation: All speakers will present in-person.

Form Info

We’re using a platform called Sessionize to gather proposals. If you haven’t used this platform before, it will prompt you to create an account when you’re ready to submit the form. 

The questions on the submission form are listed here to help you prepare your proposal.

What’s on the submission form: 

  • Session title 

  • Session description (up to 800 characters) 

  • How does your talk fit with this year's theme?

  • Key learning objectives/takeaways 

  • Session formats that are 40 min should be updated to 45 min. (select from presentation, panel, workshop/interactive session, lightning talk, or other - see descriptions to the right) 

  • Speakers’ location 

  • Preferred pronouns Notes for organizer (optional - not visible to the evaluators) 

  • Primary speaker’s tagline

  • Speaker biography (up to 800 characters) 

  • Speaker photo (optional) 

  • Co-speaker emails (if applicable)

Session formats: 

  • Presentation (40 mins): Share ideas and experiences related to UX or other relevant, controversial, or emerging issues. 

  • Panel (40 mins): Present ideas and experiences in groups of 3-5 people with a session moderator. 

  • Workshop/Interactive Session (40 mins): Demonstrate a research or design technique with audience participation. 

  • Lightning Talk (10 mins): Speak on something short and informative. 

  • Out of the Box (40 mins): Surprise us!

Ready to Submit?

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