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.


No more of that awkward standing around. Learn how to make networking work for you at conferences. Panelists included Career Coach Juliet Barrett, who focuses on helping creatives develop process strategies, tools for self-evaluation and streamlined practices that break down large goals into actionable steps, and Focal Point Business Coach Chris Gay.

UX in ATX hosted a panel of UX designers currently working in gaming to talk about the unique aspects of UX in this industry as well as how UX designers interested in designing for video games can make their way in. Our panel was Stephanie Sarvis, Rotational Designer at Zynga, Amber Holkenbrink, Associate UI/UX Lead…

Just because you saw it on the internet, doesn’t mean it’s good design. Many of today’s UX designers are new to the field, self taught, or straight out of boot camp. Others of us are overtaxed with projects or leashed by short timelines for deliverables. In cases like this, we look online for existing work…

As more products introduce agentic AI, many of the hardest UX challenges aren’t showing up as obvious usability issues. They’re emerging quietly—over time, outside traditional moments of interaction.
This post explores why agentic systems are stretching the UX playbook, why this isn’t a skills problem, and why UX in ATX is starting 2026 with open questions instead of polished answers.

Panel discusses UX career progression This this recorded meetup gathering from April 15, 2020 our panel of experts discussed how early career UX’ers can get their next jobs. This meetup has a writeup on our sponsor’s blog at standardbeagle.com.

With recent shifts in big tech, traditional sectors are proving that total experience can revolutionize outcomes. This panel session unveils how emerging and non-tech industries can secure the best UX and human factors minds, paving the way for remarkable user experiences. Speakers: