
About
We blamed slow, expensive development. The real problem was building the wrong things — UXDX helps teams build what customers actually want.
We blamed slow, expensive development. The real problem was building the wrong things.
of features fail to deliver the value that was expected.
go further and actively hurt the product they ship in.
Now imagine how many features teams are shipping with AI.
Close the gap between understanding customers and shipping quality software.
UX
User Experience
Understanding users, validating ideas, and designing the right thing.
DX
Developer Experience
High-quality architecture, code and tests that make it easy to build the right thing.
UXDX is the shift from teams of functions, passing specs between silos, to cross-functional teams that understand the problem and build the best solution together.
UXDX helps teams in three ways. Learn, connect, apply.
Real case studies
Conferences
Hear from real product, design and engineering teams about what is working, what is hard and how they are changing the way they build.
Local relationships
Community
Free local and online events that help product people meet peers, share practical lessons and keep the conversation going between conferences.
Team-level practice
ZeroBlockers
A practical framework that distills more than 10 years of talks into a repeatable approach for reducing handoffs and building the right thing.
Where we came from.
UXDX started from the belief that the best products are built when product, design, research and engineering work together from the start.
Rory had years of experience building software that was well specified, well designed and well engineered — but not what customers needed. That frustration changed his view from “How do we build it?” to “How do we know what’s worth building?”
Catherine had years of conference production experience and a knack for building communities around ideas that change an industry.
UXDX launched in Dublin in 2016 to bring those conversations together. Since then, it has grown into a global community of product teams, leaders and practitioners focused on building the right products faster, together.

Rory Madden
Founder

Catherine Madden
Founder
We've come a long way since 2016. And we're just getting started.
- 11
- Years
- 1,000+
- Speakers
- 300+
- Events
- 40,000+
- Attendees
