UXinsight Festival

Name: UXinsight Festival 2021
Start: 2021-04-14
End: 2021-04-16

A European festival and community for user-experience researchers.

User ResearchResearchOpsAIProduct Design

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Latest edition

April 2026

Location

Leiden, Netherlands

Format

Hybrid

Cadence

Annual

Organiser

UXinsight

About UXinsight Festival

UXinsight is a Netherlands-based community and annual festival for UX researchers, one of the larger dedicated research gatherings in Europe. It is held in Leiden in a hybrid format, combining an in-person festival with online access.

Programming covers research methods, operations, and the impact of AI on research practice, with a community-driven, festival-style atmosphere.

Editions

2026
20–22 Apr
Leiden
11 speakers
2025
14–16 Apr
Leiden
26 speakers
2024
15–17 Apr
Utrecht
30 speakers
2023
17–19 Apr
Breda
35 speakers
2022
30 May–1 Jun
Breda
23 speakers
2021
14–16 Apr
20 speakers
Speakers in 2021Speakers at UXinsight Festival 2021
14–16 Apr
Alexia Buclet
Designing an Immersive Menu for Augmented & Virtual Reality: A Learning Journey Between Ambition and Humility
Angela Obias-Tuban
Big Dream; Small Pond: Thriving as a UXR of One…in a Nation
Anna Efimenko
Solving the Problem at Its Root: Reorienting Operational Data to Measure Customer Experience
Beant Kaur Dhillon
Learning from Failure
Bindu Upadhyay
Succeeding in a Multicultural Context Through Trying, Failing and Learning
Gunjan Singh
Man Eating Cereal & Other UX Stories – What Would You Do? – Part I and Part II
Jerram White
Fail Fests. Creating Safe Spaces to Learn from Experience
Josh LaMar
I Want to Find You as Much as You Want to Find Me: How Failing to Find the Right Person Helped Me Find You
Kathleen Asjes
An Experiment with Radical Research Democratisation (Gone Wrong?)
Kevin Hawkins
Host (April 14-15)
Matthew Eng
More Than Mockups – Furthering UX Maturity in Your Company with DesignOps
Michelle Proksell
Building a Home for UX Researchers to Define Our Core Needs
Nidhi Jalwal
Host (April 16)
Nikki Anderson
The Failures We Need to Succeed
Remko van der Drift
Opening Keynote: Becoming a Master in Failure
Rozemarijn Visser
How to Find B2B Participants, Online, Fast
Stephanie Pratt
How to Fail at Building an in-House UXR Practice
Victor Yocco
Closing Keynote: Ethical Considerations in UX Research
Vidhika Bansal
When Moving Too Fast Really Does Break Things
Yael Gutman
Strategies to Avoid the Biases That Influence Our Research (We All Have Them)
2020
14–18 Sep
Netherlands
7 speakers
2019
4 Apr
Utrecht
6 speakers
2018
8 Mar
Utrecht
3 speakers
2017
Utrecht
Lineup unknown

Speakers in 2021Speakers at UXinsight Festival 2021

14–16 Apr

Alexia Buclet
Designing an Immersive Menu for Augmented & Virtual Reality: A Learning Journey Between Ambition and Humility
Angela Obias-Tuban
Big Dream; Small Pond: Thriving as a UXR of One…in a Nation
Anna Efimenko
Solving the Problem at Its Root: Reorienting Operational Data to Measure Customer Experience
Beant Kaur Dhillon
Learning from Failure
Bindu Upadhyay
Succeeding in a Multicultural Context Through Trying, Failing and Learning
Gunjan Singh
Man Eating Cereal & Other UX Stories – What Would You Do? – Part I and Part II

Jerram White
Fail Fests. Creating Safe Spaces to Learn from Experience
Josh LaMar
I Want to Find You as Much as You Want to Find Me: How Failing to Find the Right Person Helped Me Find You
Kathleen Asjes
An Experiment with Radical Research Democratisation (Gone Wrong?)
Kevin Hawkins
Host (April 14-15)
Matthew Eng
More Than Mockups – Furthering UX Maturity in Your Company with DesignOps
Michelle Proksell
Building a Home for UX Researchers to Define Our Core Needs
Nidhi Jalwal
Host (April 16)
Nikki Anderson
The Failures We Need to Succeed
Remko van der Drift
Opening Keynote: Becoming a Master in Failure
Rozemarijn Visser
How to Find B2B Participants, Online, Fast
Stephanie Pratt
How to Fail at Building an in-House UXR Practice
Victor Yocco
Closing Keynote: Ethical Considerations in UX Research
Vidhika Bansal
When Moving Too Fast Really Does Break Things
Yael Gutman
Strategies to Avoid the Biases That Influence Our Research (We All Have Them)