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Big Design Conference 2018 · Dallas | SpeakersList

Big Design Conference

A Texas-based conference across UX, product, research and design leadership.

Product DesignDesign LeadershipAI

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Next edition

2026

Location

Grapevine, United States

Format

In person

Organiser

Big Design

About Big Design Conference

Big Design is a conference held in Grapevine, in the Dallas and Fort Worth area of Texas, covering user experience and product design, research, and design leadership. It returned to a live format in 2025.

The programme combines craft and leadership sessions with tracks on applying AI in design, serving a community of practitioners across the southern United States.

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How the Big Design Conference Came to Be

Dallas Innovates · 2018

Co-founder Brian Sullivan on Big Design's origins and values — a low-cost, high-value conference spotlighting the Dallas design community, grown to 1,200+ attendees.

2026
Grapevine
Lineup unknown
2025
28–29 May
Grapevine
34 speakers
2024
Sep
Grapevine
9 speakers
2019
19–21 Sep
Dallas
9 speakers
2018
20–22 Sep
Dallas
15 speakers
Speakers in 2018Speakers at Big Design Conference 2018
20–22 SepDallas
Jorge Arango
Co-founder@Unfinishe
Living in Information
Ben Judy
Brian Sullivan
Cassini Nazir
Chelsea Soprano
Crafting a Design Challenge for Evaluating UX Candidates
Courtney Clark
2017
14–16 Sep
Dallas
11 speakers
2016
8–10 Sep
Dallas
6 speakers

Speakers in 2018Speakers at Big Design Conference 2018

20–22 SepDallas

Jorge Arango
Co-founder@Unfinishe
Living in Information
Ben Judy
Brian Sullivan
Cassini Nazir
Chelsea Soprano
Crafting a Design Challenge for Evaluating UX Candidates
Courtney Clark

Jeremy Johnson
Businesses Want Results, Not Empathy Maps
Jo Wong
Joe Dyer
Scientific Underpinnings of UX Research: Model the Scientific Method
John Keese
Animation: The Fine Line Between Intuitive and Distracting
Josh Christopher
Crafting a Design Challenge for Evaluating UX Candidates
Kelly Moran
The UX of Ethics: Doing It Better
Kim Goodwin
Norm Cox
Stephan Martiniere

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