Let's Meet Up: UX Research Meetup & Event Guide August 2026
Check out the virtual talks, meetups, networking events, and conferences around UX Research coming up in August!
This guide focuses on pure UX Research events and doesn’t include general UX events on purpose. We also focus primarily on events that are held in English. Most of these meetups are free, but there are also some that have a fee.
Did we miss one? Let us know via hello@condens.io and we'll be happy to add it!
As most of the events allow virtual participation worldwide, we've included details on main talk times in different time zones. Here’s what the emojis mean:
- Aug 04 | Introduction To Games User Research (in 2026) 🆓
- Aug 11 | Same Standards, Different Languages: Scaling Research at ING Belgium 🆓
- Aug 12 | Designing AI for Mental Health: A UX Framework for Underserved Communities 🆓
- Aug 12 | Stop Waiting, Start Building 🆓
- Aug 13 | 4 Essential UX Research and Design Skills for 2026 with Author Greg Nudelman 🆓
- Aug 26 | Beyond the Frame: What Happens When Our Discipline Outgrows Its Frame? 🆓
- Aug 27 | The Biggest Predictor of Research Quality Is the One AI Ignores 🆓
Introduction To Games User Research (in 2026) 🆓
Steve is bringing back his Introduction to Games User Research talk, fully revised for 2026.
He’ll explore what the role involves, the skills it requires, and the realities of entering the industry today - including the challenges new researchers are likely to face.
You’ll also have the opportunity to ask your questions, learn more about careers in games user research, and get practical advice on taking your first steps into the field.
Same Standards, Different Languages: Scaling Research at ING Belgium 🆓
If you're working on scaling research, building a repository people actually trust, or navigating multilingual research, this upcoming session with Lieven Aerts, UX Researcher at ING Belgium, is for you.
He’ll share about:
What makes an insight trustworthy to the rest of the team
The templates and tagging system behind their repeatable workflow
How they keep one source of truth across a multilingual team
Designing AI for Mental Health: A UX Framework for Underserved Communities 🆓
This webinar explores how UX design can shape more accessible and effective AI systems for mental health support, particularly for underserved communities. It highlights key challenges such as limited access to care, cost barriers, low digital literacy, and lack of continuous support.
The session introduces a practical UX framework for designing AI-driven mental health tools that are simple, scalable, and ethically designed to support users beyond traditional clinical settings.
Stop Waiting, Start Building 🆓
Yeyen recreated her UX portfolio in approximately 30 minutes from scratch. It surprised even the most seasoned AI vibecoders: how fast, functional, and beautiful it turned out. That's when she realized she was onto something. And since then, many have been asking her to teach others how to do the same.
Join this session for a hands-on webinar where Yeyen Ong will be showcasing how to build a stunning UX research portfolio using Lovable and teaching you everything you need to know to publish your own all in one hour.
4 Essential UX Research and Design Skills for 2026 with Author Greg Nudelman 🆓
This session shows you how to blend traditional UX research skills with the new disciplines required to lead AI projects to success, turning research from an upstream input into the engine that drives AI products to ship.
You'll leave with 4 concrete skills:
Agentic use case research & design
Understanding data + RAG
Value matrix analysis
The snowball sprint process
Beyond the Frame: What Happens When Our Discipline Outgrows Its Frame? 🆓
Beyond the Screen explores how emerging technologies like AI, spatial computing, voice interfaces, and ambient systems are transforming the role of UX beyond traditional screen-based design.
Drawing from real-world experience and behavioral research, the session examines how context, embodiment, attention, trust, and perception are reshaping the future of human-centered design, and why designers must evolve from crafting interfaces to designing adaptive, perceptual systems.
The Biggest Predictor of Research Quality Is the One AI Ignores 🆓
In this working session, Michele Ronsen shows what happens when AI works upstream. That's where judgment matters most, and where research goes wrong first. Using an AI research partner she built on Curiosity Tank's methodology, she pressure-tests real, anonymized research.
You'll see:
Where a study looks sound but isn't, before fieldwork begins
How AI can show why an objective, method, or screener is weak, not just flag it
What changes when a PM or designer runs the study instead of a trained researcher
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