UXinsight Festival

Name: UXinsight Festival 2025 · Leiden
Start: 2025-04-14
End: 2025-04-16
Location: Leiden, Netherlands

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
Speakers in 2025Speakers at UXinsight Festival 2025
14–16 AprLeiden
Anna Efimenko
Ash Oliver
Dalia El-Shimy
What Does Strategy Really Mean, and How Does UXR Drive It?
Dan Robins
Beyond Atomic Research: Putting Your Insights at the Centre of Organisational Intelligence
Dave Hora
Rethinking Interviews: Two Perspectives on Navigating Conversations
Dominika Łukoszek
Team Up for the Users’ Sake: Effective Collaboration Between UXR and Accessibility
Emily Murray
Making Research Stick: Memory Science Strategies for Lasting Effects
Iris Latour
The Strategic Edge of Evaluative Research
Jordan Vient
The Role of the UX Researcher in a Shrinking Market
Joseph Marcantano
What UX Researchers Can Learn from Detectives About Storytelling
Julie Krohner
Turn Insights Into Action – Raise the Bar Together
Karin den Bouwmeester
Turn Insights Into Action – Raise the Bar Together
Kathleen Asjes
Turn Insights Into Action – Raise the Bar Together
Kim Feenstra Kuiper
Fake It Till You Test It: Wizard of Oz Testing for Any Idea
Ksenia Sharova
AI-Assisted UX Research for Smarter Go/No-Go Decisions
Lindsey DeWitt Prat
Lost in Translation: AI, Language Gaps, and the Role of UX Research
Lisa Koeman
Rethinking Interviews: Two Perspectives on Navigating Conversations
Lydia Heilmann
Speed Dating for UX: The Customer Day Method
Maaike Mintjes
Turn Insights Into Action – Raise the Bar Together
Magda Kołba-Górna
Team Up for the Users’ Sake: Effective Collaboration Between UXR and Accessibility
Maja Łukomska
UXR Meets Behavioural Science: A Structured Approach to Understanding User Behaviour
Marieke McCloskey
Quantifying Research Impact: Finding the Metrics That Matter
Marley Dizney Swanson
Make Stakeholders Listen: Using Hypothesis Statements to Articulate Impact
Ruby Pryor
Quantifying Research Impact: Finding the Metrics That Matter
Tanya Berlina
AI-Assisted UX Research for Smarter Go/No-Go Decisions
Victoria Olaniyan
Hard to Reach or Easy to Ignore? Achieving True Inclusion in UX Research for Underserved Communities
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
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 2025Speakers at UXinsight Festival 2025

14–16 AprLeiden

Anna Efimenko
Ash Oliver
Dalia El-Shimy
What Does Strategy Really Mean, and How Does UXR Drive It?
Dan Robins
Beyond Atomic Research: Putting Your Insights at the Centre of Organisational Intelligence
Dave Hora
Rethinking Interviews: Two Perspectives on Navigating Conversations
Dominika Łukoszek
Team Up for the Users’ Sake: Effective Collaboration Between UXR and Accessibility

Emily Murray
Making Research Stick: Memory Science Strategies for Lasting Effects
Iris Latour
The Strategic Edge of Evaluative Research
Jordan Vient
The Role of the UX Researcher in a Shrinking Market
Joseph Marcantano
What UX Researchers Can Learn from Detectives About Storytelling
Julie Krohner
Turn Insights Into Action – Raise the Bar Together
Karin den Bouwmeester
Turn Insights Into Action – Raise the Bar Together
Kathleen Asjes
Turn Insights Into Action – Raise the Bar Together
Kim Feenstra Kuiper
Fake It Till You Test It: Wizard of Oz Testing for Any Idea
Ksenia Sharova
AI-Assisted UX Research for Smarter Go/No-Go Decisions
Lindsey DeWitt Prat
Lost in Translation: AI, Language Gaps, and the Role of UX Research
Lisa Koeman
Rethinking Interviews: Two Perspectives on Navigating Conversations
Lydia Heilmann
Speed Dating for UX: The Customer Day Method
Maaike Mintjes
Turn Insights Into Action – Raise the Bar Together
Magda Kołba-Górna
Team Up for the Users’ Sake: Effective Collaboration Between UXR and Accessibility
Maja Łukomska
UXR Meets Behavioural Science: A Structured Approach to Understanding User Behaviour
Marieke McCloskey
Quantifying Research Impact: Finding the Metrics That Matter
Marley Dizney Swanson
Make Stakeholders Listen: Using Hypothesis Statements to Articulate Impact
Ruby Pryor
Quantifying Research Impact: Finding the Metrics That Matter
Tanya Berlina
AI-Assisted UX Research for Smarter Go/No-Go Decisions
Victoria Olaniyan
Hard to Reach or Easy to Ignore? Achieving True Inclusion in UX Research for Underserved Communities