Deadline:
May 31, 2024
Location(s)
Online
online
Overview
The UX Design Awards foster the impact experience design has on shaping our lives. Originating in 2008 as a show for good usability, we established the Awards in 2015. Ever since, the UX Design Awards have been honoring exceptional experiences and presenting UX talent across the world.
Details
The UX Design Awards present great experiences and accomplished solutions – across all fields and industries worldwide.
Design is about improving people's lives. We believe that good people-centered design can deliver on this promise because it is informed by the aims, wishes, and emotions of real people. The UX Design Awards reflect this by honoring products and concepts that provide meaningful solutions for real needs – effectively creating positive change.
Our thorough approach – and the focus on a key design field – makes the UX Design Awards stand out among other design competitions.
The jury is at the heart of the Awards. The International Design Center Berlin invites experienced design and industry leaders to evaluate entries in a multi-stage procedure. We take great care to appoint jurorsaccording to their experience, knowledge and expertise in different fields. All jury decisions are made by majority vote – entirely independent of the organizers.
Three Categories For Your Best Work
- Product
- Market-ready and new products, services and experiential environments.
- Concept
- Prototypes, MVPs, service concepts, conceptual environments, foresight studies and research projects.
- New Talent
- Bachelor's and master's projects from all over the world.
Why Enter?
Gain international recognition. Strengthen your visibility. Earn credit and reputation. Join the global experience leadership community.
Benefits
- Have your work endorsed by leading design and industry experts.
- Gain international recognition for your experience excellence.
- Earn appreciation and credit for your experience design teams and people.
- Strengthen the visibility of your organization in business and the UX field.
- Connect with companies, the design industry, the research field and upcoming UX talents.
- Join the Awards' global experience leadership community with access to valuable knowledge, current trends and future developments.
- The number of UX Design Awards presented annually is strictly limited - emphasizing the uniqueness of each winner.
PR Services
- Achieve high visibility through our mixed-media campaign on social media, website, newsletter and press outreach.
- Use the international voting campaign for the Public Choice Award to generate worldwide attention for your projects.
- Get long-term exposure for your projects through the UX Design Awards virtual exhibition and yearbook (print and digital).
- Take full advantage of the logo packages, certificates and trophieswe provide at all levels of competition.
- Create impactful PR opportunities, attract and engage a global audience through our virtual events and awards ceremonies.
Media reach
- Virtual exhibition: avg. 120,000 users, 364,000 page views annually
- Public Choice Award voting: avg. 30,000 annual participants worldwide
- LinkedIn & social media: +130,000 followers, avg. monthly growth rate: 3.8K
- Post impressions: 250,000 - 500,000 monthly
- Live events: avg. 3,000 video views, 6,000 impressions, 4.8% engagement rate per virtual event
How can we submit our entries?
In your participant profile, you can set up and submit competition entries from September to November and March to May each year. Submissions are unlimited for professionals and universities. Students and graduates can submit one project per participant.
- Enter public PR data and private project details for the jury. For additional information please download our checklist and the full participant guidelines.
- You can add a promotional film and a product explanation video for the judges (recommended).
- In addition, you can upload a PDF with information on user research, and link to web-based software or a demo application (optional).
You can save your projects at any time, and continue working on them until the submission deadline. Once your entries are final, submit online and select your preferred payment method. Visa and Pay Pal are available, as well as invoicing. Upon payment of the submission fee your entries will be admitted to the nomination stage.
What happens after the submission deadline?
Among all valid submissions, the jury will select a number of Nominees that will be admitted to the competition for the Awards. Congratulations if the jury nominates your entry!
- Each nominated entry will take part in the crucial next judging rounds for the run-up to the Awards, and will benefit from extensive PR services. For professional entries a nomination fee will be due upon acceptance of a nomination.
- In subsequent judging rounds, the jury will choose the Award winners and special mentions in each competition category.
- In addition, all Nominees will compete for the Public Choice Award, chosen in a global public online vote.
All winners will be pronounced in a Virtual Award Ceremony. The ceremony marks the highlight of each Award season, and at the same time the beginning of the next call for entries.
We will be glad to welcome you with us, wishing you good luck in the UX Design Awards!
Opportunity is About
Eligibility
Candidates should be from:
Description of Ideal Candidate
Which projects can we enter?
Professionals can enter recent projects in two competition categories:
- Product: open to market-ready and new products, services and experiential environments
- Concept: open to prototypes, MVPs, service concepts, conceptual environments, foresight studies and research projects
Students, graduates and schools can enter bachelor’s or master’s projects in the New Talent category.
Solutions for all industries and application fields will be accepted. Submissions must include digital or electronic interfaces or functions. The market launch, or the start of the development process, must not date back more than two years at the time of submission.
Dates
Deadline: May 31, 2024
Cost/funding for participants
Awards for Great Experiences
- Gold Award
- By awarding the UX Design Award | Gold, the jury of experts from design, research and business honors the best projects of each competition.
- Award
- In each category, the jury presents the following titles to outstanding products, concepts, services and research projects: UX Design Award | Product, UX Design Award | Concept, and among emerging designers the UX Design Award | New Talent.
- In addition, UX professionals and users worldwide vote online to select a UX Design Award | Public Choice among all nominees.
- Special Mention
- With a Special Mention, the jury can emphasize specific individual qualities of nominated projects.
- Nomination
- Among all valid submissions, the jury nominates a limited number of entries to participate in the competition. All selected projects receive the title UX Design Award | Nominated. They are promoted extensively and take part in the judging for the Awards and Special Mentions.
Participation costs
New Talent section:
- Submission fee: € 70
Professional sections Product and Concept:
- Submission fee: € 320
- Nomination package: € 2,250
Fees include all services related to the competition participation and judging, including extensive promotional services, trophies, and the unlimited right of use for all awarded titles. No hidden or recurring costs.
All prices are per submission excluding VAT. For company members of the International Design Center Berlin the submission fee for one project is waived.
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