The best UX and design events in 2020

The best UX and design events in 2020

By Fabricio Teixeira

A comprehensive list for designers who are looking for design events, meetups, and conferences to attend this year.

Alert: due to the COVID-19 pandemic, most events have been canceled or shifted to remote. Check the organizer's website to get the latest updates.

January

Group
January 6-8, 2020 ✈ Sanibel Island, Florida, United States

In/Visible Talks
January 16, 2020 ✈ San Francisco, California, United States

DesignTO
January 17-26, 2020 ✈ Toronto, Canada

UXCamp DC
January 18, 2020 ✈ Washington DC, United States

Awwwards Conference Tokyo
January 23-24, 2020 ✈ Tokyo, Chiyoda, Japan

New Adventures
January 23, 2020 ✈ Nottingham, United Kingdom

International Conference on MSIVISM
January 29-31, 2020 ✈ Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

February

Chief Customer Officers
February 5-6, 2020 ✈ Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Pause Fest
February 5-7, 2020 ✈ Melbourne, Australia

Interaction 20
February 7-20, 2020 ✈ Milan, Italy

Outcome
February 8, 2020 ✈ Chandigarh, India

TEI: International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction
February 9-13, 2020 ✈ Sydney, Australia

Australian Accessibility Conference
February 11-13, 2020 ✈ Victoria Park, Australia

UXistanbul Conference
February 18, 2020 ✈ Istanbul, Turkey

Awwwards Conference
February 20-21, 2020 ✈ Amsterdam, Netherlands

User Experience Hong Kong
“With recent disruptive events in Hong Kong this conference is on hold but we hope to announce some supporting events in 2020" ✈ Hong Kong, China

UXI Live
February 23-24, 2020 ✈ Rishon Lezion, Israel

ProfsoUX
February 28, 2020 ✈ St. Petersburg, Russia

Interaction Design Education Summit
February 29-March 1, 2020 ✈ Milan, Italy

March

The UX Conference
March 2-3, 2020 ✈ London, England

ConveyUX
March 3-5, 2020 ✈ Seattle, Washington, United States

Service Design in Government
March 4-6, 2020 ✈ Edinburgh, Scotland

Leading Design
March 4-6, 2020 ✈ San Francisco, California, United States

International Conference on SETECEC
March 10-13, 2020 ✈ Venice, Italy

NO/BS Conference
March 11-12, 2020 ✈ Melbourne, Australia

Deliver Conference
March 12, 2020 ✈ Manchester, United Kingdom

SXSW
March 13-22, 2020 ✈ Austin, Texas, United States

CHIIR
March 14-18, 2020 ✈ Vancouver, Canada

Booster Conference
March 18-20, 2020 ✈ Bergen, Norway

Design Research
March 18-20, 2020 ✈ Melbourne, Australia

Perth UX Camp
March 19-20, 2020 ✈ Perth, Australia

Ignite UX
March 24, 2020 ✈ Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Advancing Research
March 30-April 1, 2020 ✈ New York City, New York, United States

UX Copenhagen
March 30-31, 2020 ✈ Copenhagen, Denmark

AIGA Design Conference
March 30-April 1, 2020 ✈ Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

April

UIArchConf
April 1-3, 2020 ✈ New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Creative South
April 2-4, 2020 ✈ Columbus, Georgia, United States

Offset
April 3-5, 2020 ✈ Dublin, Ireland

UX Insight
April 6-8, 2020 ✈ Breda, The Netherlands

University of Illinois Web Conference
April 8-9, 2020 ✈ Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, United States

UX Days Tokyo
April 10, 2020 ✈ Tokyo, Japan

An Event Apart
April 13-15, 2020 ✈ Washington DC, United States

Digital Thinking
April 14–17, 2020 ✈ Austin, Texas, United States

Health Experience Design Conference
April 14-15, 2020 ✈ Boston, Massachusetts, United States

IAC Information Architecture Conference
April 14-18, 2020 ✈ New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Customer Experience Strategies Summit
April 16-17, 2020 ✈ Toronto, Canada

UX STRAT
April 20-21, 2020 ✈ Singapore

SmashingConf
April 21-22, 2020 ✈ San Francisco, California, United States

UX Healthcare
April 22-24, 2020 ✈ London, United Kingdom

OFFF
April 23-25, 2020 ✈ Barcelona, Spain

CHI
April 25-30, 2020 ✈ Honolulu, Hawaii, United States

Beyond Tellerrand
April 27-29, 2020 ✈ Düsseldorf, Germany

Ergonomics & Human Factors
April 27-29, 2020 ✈ Stratford, United Kingdom

May

Pixel Up
May 4-6, 2020 ✈ Cape Town, South Africa

From Business to Buttons
May 6-8, 2020 ✈ Stockholm, Sweden

An Event Apart
May 11-13, 2020 ✈ Seattle, Washington, United States

Camp Digital
May 13, 2020 ✈ Manchester, United Kingdom

GamesUR
May 14, 2020 ✈ Montreal, Canada

UXConf BR
May 15-16, 2020 ✈ Porto Alegre, Brazil

UX Salon
May 17-18, 2020 ✈ Tel Aviv, Israel

Confab
May 17-20, 2020 ✈ Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

UXLx User Experience Lisbon
May 19-22, 2020 ✈ Lisbon, Portugal

ACE!
May 20-22, 2020 ✈ Kraków, Poland

Digital Health and Care Congress
May 20-21, 2020 ✈ London, United Kingdom

Ecommerce Design Summit
May 20-21, 2020 ✈ London, United Kingdom

UX London
May 27-29, 2020 ✈ London, United Kingdom

DesignOps Global Conference
May 28-29, 2020 ✈ Manchester, United Kingdom

Front UX & Product Management
May 28-29, 2020 ✈ Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

UX Camp Europe
May 30-31, 2020 ✈ Berlin, Germany

June

POLISHOPA Design Thinking Conference
June 1-4, 2020 ✈ Bydgoszcz, Poland

Fluxible
June 1-7, 2020 ✈ Ontario, Canada

UX Research Conference
June 3-5, 2020 ✈ Toronto, Canada

99U
June 3-5, 2020 ✈ New York City, New York, United States

By Design
June 6, 2020 ✈ Bratislava, Slovakia

SmashingConf
June 9-10, 2020 ✈ Austin, Texas, United States

Enterprise Experience
June 10-12, 2020 ✈ San Francisco, California, United States

UX Scotland
June 10-12, 2020 ✈ Edinburgh, Scotland

Experience Fighters
June 10-11, 2020 ✈ Madrid, Spain

Pixel Pioneers Bristol
June 12, 2020 ✈ Bristol, United Kingdom

IMX Interactive Media Experiences
June 17-19, 2020 ✈ Barcelona, Spain

The Next Web
June 18-19, 2020 ✈ Amsterdam, Netherlands

UXPA
June 23-25, 2020 ✈ Baltimore, Maryland, United States

UX Healthcare
June 24-26, 2020 ✈ Amsterdam, Netherlands

User Research London
June 26, 2020 ✈ London, United Kingdom

An Event Apart
June 29-July 1, 2020 ✈ Boston, Massachusetts, United States

UX STRAT
June 29-July 1, 2020 ✈ Amsterdam, Netherlands

July

HCI International

July 19-24, 2020 ✈ Copenhagen, Denmark

UX Research & Insights Summit

July 21-23, 2020 ✈ Boston, Massachusetts, United States

August

An Event Apart

August 17-19, 2020 ✈ Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Beyond Tellerrand

August 24-27, 2020 ✈ Berlin, Germany

UX Australia

August 25-28, 2020 ✈ Melbourne, Australia

September

SmashingConf

September 7-8, 2020 ✈ Freiburg, Germany

UX Healthcare

September 17-18, 2020 ✈ Frankfurt, Germany

Design Matters

September 23-24, 2020 ✈ Copenhagen, Denmark

October

An Event Apart

October 5-7, 2020 ✈ Orlando, Florida, United States

MobileHCI

October 5-8, 2020 ✈ Oldenburg, Germany

Canvas Conference

October 8, 2020 ✈ Birmingham, United Kingdom

UXDX Conference

October 8-9, 2020 ✈ Dublin, Ireland

UX-DAY

October 14-16, 2020 ✈ Mannheim, Germany

Amuse UX Conference

October 16, 2020 ✈ Budapest, Hungary

Smashing Conference

October 20-21, 2020 ✈ New York City, New York, United States

World Usability Congress

October 20-21, 2020 ✈ Graz, Austria

Interaction Latin America

To be confirmed, 2020 ✈ San Jose, Costa Rica

November

Beyond Tellerrand

November 2-4, 2020 ✈ Munich, Germany

Web Summit

November 2-5, 2020 ✈ Lisbon, Portugal

December

An Event Apart

December 14-16, 2020 ✈ San Francisco, California, United States

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30+ Logo Stats and Facts – New Fortune 500 List Research

30+ Logo Stats and Facts – New Fortune 500 List Research

by Andrea Schlottman

Just how much do you know about logos?

There are so many “best practices” in logo design that it’s easy to get lost in all that knowledge. But even the most experienced designers and biggest brand enthusiasts among us can always learn something new.

That’s why we’ve done the research and are here to shake things up with the most up-to-date logo statistics from the Fortune 500 list.

Along with insights from our own data analysis, we’ll be sharing statistics, interesting trends, and fun facts about logos and branding. Busy CEO, in-house marketer, or even freelancer, you’re sure to find something that will help you grow your brand and boost your business.

Current Logo Design Trends from Top Companies

Successful logo design is a balance between fitting in and standing out, adhering to best practices without getting too generic. So how do the most successful companies in the world achieve this tricky design balance? Let’s look at the numbers to find out.

We compiled the following logo statistics by analyzing companies from the 2019 Fortune 500 list.

1. Combination Logos Rule the Field

We divided the Fortune 500 logos into seven distinct types to see which logo style is most popular.

7 types of logos

And the findings are pretty clear: combination logos rule! Of these top 500 companies, over 60% use combination logos.

The full breakdown is as follows:

• Combination logos – 307
• Wordmarks – 155
• Lettermarks – 24
• Emblems – 12
• Abstract icons – 1
• Pictorial icons – 1

Which logo types do Fortune 500 companies use?

It’s no surprise that combination logos are so popular. By including both a wordmark and an icon, combination logos are incredibly versatile – allowing companies to use the icon, the text, or the full combination depending on the context of the logo.

In case you’re curious, the two companies that generally use stand-alone icons? They’re none other than Nike (abstract icon) and Apple (pictorial icon). No wordmark needed here!

2. The Most Popular Color Is Blue

Among Fortune 500 companies, blue is the top logo color by far, accounting for nearly 40% of the entire list.

3. When Combining Colors, Two Is Standard

4. Black and Red Is the Top Combination

5. Other Color Combinations Are More Unique

6. What About Gradients?

7. Sans Serif Fonts Are In

8. To Capitalize or Not to Capitalize?

A Look at Rebranding and Logo Redesign

1. Why Companies Rebrand

2. Famous Logo Rebrands

3. Infamous Logo Rebrands

4. How Consumers React to Logo Redesigns

5. No Redesign Here: Tried-and-True Logos

The Logo Design Industry

1. Agencies Are Still a Big Player

2. But Big Agencies Are Too Costly for Most Small Businesses

3. In-House Design Happens, Too

4. Freelancing Platforms Are Growing

5. Crowdsourcing: Not New but Popular

6. Vector Graphics Software

7. DIY Logo Makers Are Getting Better

8. What About Stock Photos?

The Logo/Graphic Design Industry

1. Self-Employment Is King

2. Agencies Are Going Flexible, Too

3. Job Growth Will Be Digital

4. Formal Education vs. Skill-Based Training

The Target Audience

1. First Impressions Happen Faster Than You Think

2. Consistent Branding Matters

3. Color, Color, Color!

4. Shape Matters, Too

5. Symmetrical vs. Asymmetrical Logos

6. How Memorable Are Famous Logos?

7. Consumers’ Memory of Color

Future Projections: Logo Design Moving Forward

1. Technology Will Drive Changes

2. Rise of Animation

3. Importance of Dynamic Logos

More Fun Facts About Logos

1. Oldest Trademarked Logos

2. Can You Trademark a Color?

3. Most Expensive Logos in the World

4. Salvador Dali, Logo Designer?

5. Most Prolific Logo Designer

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