Strategic Career Foresight: UX Themes for 2025 and Beyond
What should designers think about in keeping their career future forward?
UX in ATX co-founder Cindy Brummer shared insights from SXSW 2024 on what’s ahead for design.


Learning a new tool such as auto-layout can be confusing or challenging for many designers, but Figma offers some extremely powerful and useful mechanics that can drastically improve your designs. In this session, our Figma expert, Nathan Flores, walked through auto-layout and its ability to provide consistency, flexibility, and a guideline for future work.Topics:

As (UX) designers, we strive to create intuitive, delightful, and memorable user experiences. Microinteractions, the small yet impactful moments that occur during user interactions, play a crucial role in shaping these experiences. In this session, you’ll discover:

If you’re transitioning into UX design, you’re not starting from scratch. Many people feel like they’re beginning a new career, but your past skills are highly relevant and can give you an edge. At UX in ATX, we discussed how to make your skills work for you in a UX role. The topics included making…

How your network can help you get noticed and get hired: Are you sending out resume after resume but have not gotten any responses? Are you stuck in a dead-end job and don’t know how to get the job you long for? A robust network can help you build meaningful connections, leading to hidden job…

Learn the importance of effectively communicate the value of you design decisions to stakeholders, gain buy-in for projects, and ultimately ensure that their designs align with the company’s overall business goals by demonstrating how improved user experience translates into tangible benefits like increased sales, customer retention, and cost reduction. Download the slides here

As artificial intelligence becomes more integrated into the products we design, it’s reshaping how users interact with technology—and what they’re giving up in return. Interfaces are becoming more conversational, more predictive, and sometimes even emotionally responsive. But with these advancements come important questions about consent, trust, and behavioral influence. In this session, we explore the…