Call for Speakers
UX Y'all 2025
24 Sep 2025
25 Sep 2025
Marbles Kids Museum Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
uxyall.org
UX Y’all is the annual conference hosted by the Triangle UXPA, a North Carolina chapter of the User Experience Professionals Association.
Theme
Chaos to Clarity: Designing for an Unpredictable World
UX is rarely linear. It’s messy, unpredictable, and full of contradictions. Yet, in uncertainty, great designers find clarity—transforming ambiguity into insight, complexity into simplicity, and friction into flow. Because in a disordered world, great design is the ultimate compass.
At UX Y’all 2025, experience:
🔹 Keynotes from Raleigh’s top design leaders
🔹 Workshops where you’ll solve real challenges
🔹 Case studies from NC’s fastest-growing companies
We’re tackling:
✔️ Simplifying complexity (without dumbing it down)
✔️ Designing for unpredictable users
✔️ AI that clarifies instead of confuses
✔️ UX that works for everyone
Because good design brings order to chaos.
Call for Speakers
21 Apr 2025
09 Jun 2025
Free registration for speakers
All speakers and co-speakers will receive a complimentary ticket to UX Y'all. (Note: Travel expenses will not be covered.)
Instructions
Please read the following before submitting your proposal.
- Deadline: Extended to June 9, 2025. No late submissions will be considered.
- Blind review process: Do not include any identifying information in your session description. Avoid using speaker names, companies, products, email addresses, or affiliation statuses. We strive for a diverse body of presenters, so do optionally include requested information on speaker diversity if you'd like that to be considered in the selection process.
- Timeline: Sessions will be evaluated after the Call for Speakers closes, and speakers will be notified of decisions as soon as possible.
- Editing your session: If you need to make changes to your submission, please email uxyallspeakers@triuxpa.org by the deadline. After the deadline has passed, you cannot change the proposal.
- Submission limit: No more than two submissions per person please. (This includes being a second speaker or panelist in another session.)
- Location priority: Some priority will be given to local speakers.
- Theme fit: Submissions will be evaluated for overall quality, relevance to UX as a profession, fit with community needs, and theme.
- In-person presentation: All speakers will present in-person.
Session Formats
- Presentation (45 mins): Share ideas and experiences related to UX or other relevant, controversial, or emerging issues.
- Panel (45 mins): Present ideas and experiences in groups of 3-5 people with a session moderator.
- Workshop (45 mins): Demonstrate a research or design technique with audience participation.
- Lightning Talk (10 mins): Speak on something short and informative.
- Out of the Box (45 mins): Surprise us!
If you use assistive technology and have issues with the submission form, please contact uxyallspeakers@triuxpa.org for assistance.
event fee
Selected presentations will receive complimentary conference registration for all speakers.