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UX Pakistan 2024 marked a significant milestone as it expanded beyond Lahore to host its first-ever design conference in Karachi, bringing together a vibrant community of designers, developers, business leaders, and creative professionals. Organized by INDEX, the Design Society at LUMS, in collaboration with The Design Foundation, the event featured insightful talks by industry leaders, hands-on workshops, and networking opportunities aimed at fostering innovation in user experience design. With a focus on human-centered design and interdisciplinary collaboration, UX Pakistan 2024 provided a platform for professionals and students to explore the latest trends, share knowledge, and drive meaningful discussions on the future of design in Pakistan.
UX Pakistan 2021 was a dynamic virtual conference that brought together designers, developers, business leaders, and creative professionals to explore the evolving landscape of user experience design. Organized by INDEX, the Design Society at LUMS, in collaboration with The Design Foundation, the event adapted to the challenges of the pandemic by offering an immersive online experience. Featuring keynote talks, interactive workshops, and panel discussions led by industry experts, UX Pakistan 2021 provided a platform for knowledge sharing, networking, and skill-building. The conference emphasized the importance of human-centered design, digital transformation, and innovation, inspiring attendees to push the boundaries of UX design in Pakistan and beyond.
2020’s edition focuses on ‘The Past, Present and Future of Design in Pakistan’. We aim to explore our national design landscape while taking take an expansive and holistic view of the past, how has it shaped our present, and what the future of design in Pakistan entails more importantly, through the 4th edition of UX Pakistan, we aim to create a new vision and roadmap that will add value to Pakistan’s socially and economically. That means being both visionary, progressive, realistic and pragmatic. Therefore, in the ‘The Future’ segment, we will be taking a blue-sky approach towards envisioning how design, as a practice and discipline, needs to be taken forward. This involves looking at the future role of design and associated trends in the world and doing a gap analysis of where we stand in Pakistan today. We will take a look at the future needs of people and society, the future needs of businesses, and the future needs of the government and try to understand what role design has to play within that context. What bridges need to be built within academia and the industry, how can academia-industry collaboration be enabled. What type of outreach activities need to be done, and how, and when, in order to establish the value of design to businesses and government stakeholders. What are the strategies and entities that need to be employed that will lead to the wide-scale employment of design. And as we move into the future – which is being called the 4th Industrial Revolution – and some have even coined the term ‘Experience Age’ – what role does design have to play within this context, especially within Pakistan.
Well-designed and meaningful user-experiences are a collective effort between individuals with varying backgrounds that come together, bringing everything to the table. These individuals all share one thing though, an understanding of the need to solve real-world problems through out-of-the-box design thinking and collaboration amongst disciplines.
We call these people ‘Modern Creatives’. They are the thinkers of tomorrow, they are artists, designers, developers, architects, end-users and everything in-between. Not dwelling in the past, these individuals evolve constantly. Only through a conversation between these Modern Creatives, does meaningful user experience emerge.
2019’s edition aims to bring these individuals together on one platform to share, collaborate, learn, educate and emerge as the creators of tomorrow. We aim to bring an array of experts and participants to open up new and interesting conversations across different specialities and even different worldviews. Only through such variety can we explore new avenues for meaningful user-experiences and problem-solving.
2018’s edition is about designing holistic user experiences, teaching the latest UX trends and technologies and inspiring UXers to create seamless experiences. An entertaining day filled with interesting workshops in website designs, AR/VR, design hackathons and competitions followed by a day of talks with a stellar line up from leaders of the industry and design professionals. The conference will be a platform for startups and UX designers to get their ideas evaluated by professionals of the field. In this conference we are also introducing UX Design awards.
This conference is about designing holistic user experiences, teaching the latest UX trends and technologies and inspiring UXers to create seamless experiences. An entertaining day filled with interesting workshops in website designs, AR/VR, design hackathons and competitions followed by a day of talks with a stellar line up from leaders of the industry and design professionals. The conference will be a platform for startups and UX designers to get their ideas evaluated by professionals of the field.
UX Pakistan, a not-for profit venture, is a community and a forum that aims to bring thinkers (designers, developers, business leaders, architects, artists, craftsmen, end-users and everything in between) together on one platform to share, collaborate, learn, educate and emerge as the creators of tomorrow. The UX Pakistan conference is organized by Design For Pakistan ( non-profit organization that aims to use the power of human-centered design to make a social impact in Pakistan).