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

Designing for Depth: Prototyping XR Experiences

Saturday, March 22 2025 / UI/CRAFT

Extended Reality (XR) introduces unique challenges for UX designers, as traditional 2D tools like Figma often fall short in conveying spatial experiences. This talk explores why prototyping is essential for XR applications and how it differs from 2D design. We’ll discuss key characteristics of XR experiences, common pitfalls, and practical methods for building effective prototypes. Attendees will gain insights into tools and techniques to better articulate their vision and create immersive, user-friendly XR experiences. Whether you’re new to XR or looking to refine your workflow, this session will equip you with the skills to prototype with confidence.

11:30 AM

Classroom 2

Our speakers

Sasha Ivanov

He/Him

HCI Researcher + Prototyper

Sasha is a computer science researcher shaping the future of human interaction with next-generation XR and AI technologies. At Meta Reality Labs, he developed immersive prototypes to explore how future headsets could integrate into everyday life. His recent research at Singapore Management University examines how generative user interfaces can enhance the results of ambiguous requests to LLMs. During his Master’s at the University of Calgary, he developed interaction techniques for guiding AI-generated designs in AR and published research on immersive VR data visualizations. Today, Sasha continues to support startups across Calgary’s entrepreneurial community with UX design and development, translating advancing XR and AI technologies into real-world applications.

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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.