Thank You, Calgary!

WOW — what an incredible two days! UX Camp Calgary 2025 is officially a wrap, and as organizers, we’re filled with gratitude, joy, and pride after hosting our very first UX Camp here in Calgary.

To our amazing community: thank you for showing up, selling us out, and bringing your full energy to the event.

From the deep-dive workshops on March 21st to the inspiring talks, engaging panels, and vibrant networking on March 22nd, your presence made this experience unforgettable.

We want to offer our sincerest thanks to the people who made UX Camp possible:

✨ To our volunteers – your dedication, kindness, and behind-the-scenes magic kept everything running seamlessly.
🎤 To our speakers – thank you for sharing your knowledge, perspectives, and vision for the future of UX.
🛠️ To our workshop facilitators – your sessions were packed with insight and practical takeaways.
🤝 To our sponsors and community partners – thank you for believing in this vision and helping bring it to life.

This was just the beginning. Our goal was to create a space for Alberta’s UX professionals, designers, developers, and innovators to connect, grow, and be inspired — and we’re so proud of what we built together.

We’re already looking forward to Edmonton's UX Camp in May 17, and next year's edition! Let’s keep growing this incredible community, one UX Camp at a time.

With love and gratitude,

The UX Camp in Calgary Organizing Team

Design your team like a researcher

Saturday, March 22 2025 / UXR

You’ve been promoted to a management role, and now your most important task isn’t polishing prototypes or writing research reports—it’s building a high-performing team. The challenge? You were trained as a designer or researcher, not as a hiring expert. In this talk, I’ll show you how I applied my research process to build and scale a successful team. You’ll leave with actionable templates, strategies, and methods for growing your team even without a hiring budget. This session is for you if you are a manager, considering management, or just curious about how hiring managers make decisions.

11:30 AM

Classroom 1

Our speaker

Barbara Shain

She/Her

Senior Manager, User Research at Cisco

Barbara Shain is a Senior Manager of User Research at Cisco and leads a team within the cybersecurity division. With a background in both design and research, she’s passionate about collaborating with stakeholders to deliver research that drives successful products and features. Working in the fast-paced world of cybersecurity meant that Barbara had to learn how to hire the right people and scale research fast. She applied her research skills to build a high-performing team and is eager to share the insights she’s gained along the way.

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building UX communities in Alberta

About us

UX Camp 2025 is proudly brought to you by Calgary UX and UX Ed monton.

Building on the success of our previous UX Camps in Edmonton, the 2025 conference promises to be an engaging and dynamic gathering of UX professionals, designers, developers, and innovators from across the province.

The partnership between Calgary UX and Edmonton UX represents a shared vision of fostering a thriving user experience community across Alberta. By joining forces, these two groups bring together the unique strengths of their respective regions, creating opportunities for collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and innovation.

Calgary UX is a vibrant community fostering connections among UX professionals through workshops, networking, mentorship, and creative collaboration.

Our goal is simple: to connect and grow a community of people across disciplines and industres that share a passion for design and UX.

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Land Acknowledgement

We acknowledge that the Calgary area where the Bow and Elbow rivers meet is a place of confluence where the sharing of ideas and opportunities naturally occurs. Indigenous peoples have their own names for this area that were in use long before Scottish settlers named it Calgary.

The Métis call the Calgary area Otos-kwunee. In the Blackfoot language, they call this place, Moh-kins-tsis. The Stoney Nakoda Nation refer to the Calgary area as Wîchîspa Oyade and the people of the Tsuut’ina nation call this area Guts-ists-i. We would like to acknowledge that we are located on the traditional territories of the people of the Treaty 7 Region in Southern Alberta.

This includes: the Siksika, Piikani, and Kainai collectively known as the Blackfoot Confederacy; the Îethka Nakoda Wîcastabi First Nations, comprised of the Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Wesley First Nations; and the Tsuut’ina First Nation. The City of Calgary is also homeland to the historic Northwest Métis and to Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3. We acknowledge all Indigenous urban Calgarians, First Nations, Inuit, and Métis, who have made Calgary their home.