UXINDIA was hosted by UMO in 2016 in order to mainly make the global community aware of design thinking and user experience while also promoting it among businesses and industries. The conference was of three days from 20th to 22nd October at Westin, Hyderabad which encouraged the promotion of user experience among designers, industrialists, academicians, program managers, visual designers, user researchers, startup founders and design students.

The biggest conference of User Experience in India endorsed Impact by Design which aimed at spreading knowledge of UX, raising design quotient, and hence creating lasting impact. The UX Clinic was one of the flagship events which gave the opportunity to get an individual’s or an organization’s (entrepreneurs, technologists, designers, etc.) user experience strategy right with our expert design panel. Another star event was the UX Ladder which was a series of audience driven consultations, where experts/mentors from the industry deal with queries and challenges faced by UX talent in progressing in their career.

The 2016 conference was a staunch Launchpad for a lot of our base programmes like Women in Design, Talent Fair, Industry + Academia Fusion, UX clinic, to name a few. The first edition of Women in Design brought together several women entrepreneurs, design thinkers, business leaders and innovators to showcase their stories connecting women at the helm of undertakings. The first UX Talent Fair was launched to address the requirements of businesses and startups in obtaining great design talent by connecting UX India’s design talent with region’s reputed employers and recruiters for networking and hiring opportunities.

UXINDIA 2016 conference’s mission was also to renovate education in India by making design an essential part of the principles of educational institutes and we have been inspiring and igniting young minds through various programs like InstillDesign, TechEASE and iNNOVATE.