Design Events: KRUPA Conference for UI/UX Designers

Design events are a great way to get inspired by experts, to set networking for business and career goals, and share your own experience. Today, we are introducing one of the biggest design events of this spring in Eastern Europe – KRUPA Conference.

What is KRUPA conference?

KRUPA is the biggest interface design conference in Eastern Europe. The event is held on April 6, 2019, in Kyiv. It gathers global design stars, UX leaders, aspiring designers, and UX teams, developing networking opportunities and raising design industry in Ukraine to a new level.

• 13 fantastic speakers are coming to the event from all over the world to share their real-life experience.
• 3000 attendees. KRUPA attendees are driven and focused interface designers, product managers, and design directors. It’s the biggest interface design related gathering in Eastern Europe.
• Cool venue. The conference is held in Sports Palace—a sports and concert complex located in the center of Kyiv, within walking distance from the subway station with the same name. Its capacity will allow comfortably accommodate spectators, food courts and entertainment. Indoor sports games, concerts, major exhibitions, and fairs are held in this hall.

Here’s a quick glance at the previous conference in 2018 whose keynote speaker was famous UX design guru Alan Cooper.

Reasons to attend Krupa in 2019

Touch the legend: for the first time in Ukraine, Don Norman, a design legend and the author of the term User Experience, co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group and author of The Design of Everyday Things.

Get global insights with speakers from the USA, Switzerland, Germany, Japan, Israel, and Ukraine. Join the experience of various participants in the global UX world.

Join a powerful community of specialists. Meet designers from Smashing Magazine, Airbnb, Figma, Wix, Mozilla, Soundcloud, Tubik Studio, Lun.ua, The23.design, and CloudMade.

Feel the creative drive at the largest conference on design interfaces in Eastern Europe.

Try the big platform of networking with other designers and specialists from various companies.

Speakers in 2019

Don Norman, Nielsen Norman Group Partner

Vitaly Friedman, Smashing Magazine editor-in-chief

Cole Mercer, ex-product manager at Soundcloud.com

Guillermo Torres, Airbnb Product Designer, ex-Google, Adobe

Zach Grosser, designer educator at Figma, ex-Square, Apple

Lior Pinco, Design director for Wix.com

Max Shirko, The23 creative director, curator at Projector

Alexander Ivanov, Head of Product at ЛУН and Flatfy, curator at Projector

Takeshi Horiuchi, UX Director for Age of Learning

Dmitry Starkov, senior UX designer at CloudMade

Sergey Valiukh, Tubik Studio creative director

Anna Kuntsman Rozenberg Creative Director Wix.com

Amin Al Hazwani, User Experience Designer at Mozilla Firefox

What does it feel like?

To get more insights into the atmosphere of the upcoming conference, let us share some photos from KRUPA 2018.

More information about speakers and the overall agenda can be found on the conference website. Join in!

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