2023 UX Design Awards

Why Enter? See Your Benefits.

Gain international recognition. Strengthen your visibility. Earn credit and reputation. Join the global experience leadership community.

The deadline for submissions is November 30, 2022.

Benefits for Winners and Nominees

• Have your work endorsed by leading design and industry experts.
• Gain international recognition for your experience excellence.
• Earn appreciation and credit for your experience design teams and people.
• Strengthen the visibility of your organization in business and the UX field.
• Connect with companies, the design industry, the research field and upcoming UX talents.
• Join the Awards’ global experience leadership community with access to valuable knowledge, current trends and future developments.
• The number of UX Design Awards presented annually is strictly limited – emphasizing the uniqueness of each winner.

PR Services

• Achieve high visibilitythrough our mixed-media campaign on social media, website, newsletter and press outreach.
• Use the international voting campaign for the Public Choice Award to generate worldwide attentionfor your projects.
• Get long-term exposurefor your projects through the UX Design Awards virtual exhibition and yearbook (print and digital).
• Take full advantage of the logo packages, certificates and trophieswe provide at all levels of competition.
• Create impactful PR opportunities, attract and engage a global audience through our virtual events and awards ceremonies.

Media Reach

• Virtual exhibition: avg. 98,000 users, 327,000 page views annually
• Public Choice Award voting: avg. 30,000 annual participants worldwide
• Social media: over 130,000 followers, avg. monthly growth rate: 2,5-5K
• Post impressions: 250,000 – 500,000 monthly
• Live events: avg. 3,000 video views, 6,000 impressions, 4.8% engagement rate per virtual event

How to Take Part

How can I enter?

Register hereand set up your participant profile at any time. Enter your contact data and invoicing information.

Which projects can we enter?

Professionals can enter recent projects in two competition categories:

• Product: open to market-ready and new products, services and experiential environments
• Concept: open to prototypes, MVPs, service concepts, conceptual environments, foresight studies and research projects

Students, graduates and schools can enter bachelor’s or master’s projects in the New Talent category.

Solutions for all industries and application fields will be accepted. Submissions must include digital or electronic interfaces or functions. The market launch, or the start of the development process, must not date back more than two years at the time of submission.

How can we submit our entries?

In your participant profile, you can set up and submit competition entries from September to Novemberand March to Mayeach year. Submissions are unlimited for professionals and universities. Students and graduates can submit one project per participant.

• Enter public PR data and private project details for the jury. For additional information please download our checklistand the full participant guidelines.
• You can add a promotional film and a product explanation video for the judges (recommended).
• In addition, you can upload a PDF with information on user research, and link to web-based software or a demo application (optional).

You can save your projects at any time, and continue working on them until the submission deadline. Once your entries are final, submit online and select your preferred payment method. Visa and Pay Pal are available, as well as invoicing. Upon payment of the submission fee your entries will be admitted to the nomination stage.

What happens after the submission deadline?

Among all valid submissions, the jury will select a number of Nomineesthat will be admitted to the competition for the Awards. Congratulations if the jury nominates your entry!

• Each nominated entry will take part in the crucial next judging rounds for the run-up to the Awards, and will benefit from extensive PR services.For professional entries a nomination feewill be due upon acceptance of a nomination.
• In subsequent judging rounds, the jury will choose the Award winners and special mentionsin each competition category.
• In addition, all Nominees will compete for the Public Choice Award, chosen in a global public online vote.

All winners will be pronounced in a Virtual Award Ceremony. The ceremony marks the highlight of each Award season, and at the same time the beginning of the next call for entries.

We will be glad to welcome you with us, wishing you good luck in the UX Design Awards!

What are the participation costs?

New Talent section:

• Submission fee: € 50

Professional sections Product and Concept:

• Submission fee: € 320
• Nomination package: € 1,950

Fees include all servicesrelated to the competition participation and judging, including extensive promotional services, trophies, and the unlimited right of use for all awarded titles.No hidden or recurring costs.

All prices are per submission excluding VAT. For company members of the International Design Center Berlinthe submission fee for one project is waived.

Entry details & GTCs

Please download the full participation guidelines, terms & conditions and prices here.

Lots of success for your participation in the UX Design Awards!

Three Categories For Your Best Work

Product

Market-ready and new products, services and experiential environments.

Concept

Prototypes, MVPs, service concepts, conceptual environments, foresight studies and research projects.

New Talent

Bachelor’s and master’s projects from all over the world.

Awards for Great Experiences

Gold Award

By awarding the UX Design Award | Gold, the jury of experts from design, research and business honors the best projects of each competition.

Award

In each category, the jury presents the following titles to outstanding products, concepts, services and research projects: UX Design Award | Product, UX Design Award | Concept, and among emerging designers the UX Design Award | New Talent.

In addition, UX professionals and users worldwide vote online to select a UX Design Award | Public Choiceamong all nominees.

Special Mention

With a Special Mention, the jury can emphasize specific individual qualities of nominated projects.

Nomination

Among all valid submissions, the jury nominates a limited number of entries to participate in the competition. All selected projects receive the title UX Design Award | Nominated. They are promoted extensively and take part in the judging for the Awards and Special Mentions.

Judging Criteria

The UX Design Awards focus on the positive impact of people-oriented products, concepts and research that provide meaningful solutions for real needs.

The Award jury will evaluate each submission through a scoring system based on the following judging criteria:

Relevance

We expect submissions to be relevant. They should address substantial challenges, improve situations and create value – for business, people and the planet. Besides, products and services should take sustainable principles and resource-saving into account.

• address substantial challenges
• improve situations
• create value for business, people and planet
• take sustainable principles and resource-saving into account

Empowerment

Entries should empower people by improving human abilities, by enabling access to new fields of application or knowledge. Products and services should strive to uphold social values and cohesion by strengthening inclusion and participation.

• improve human abilities
• enable access to new fields of application or knowledge
• strive to uphold social values and cohesion
• strengthen inclusion and participation

Innovation

Award entries should find innovative solutions for real challenges, identify emerging fields of action, and present new solution strategies. Novel technologies should be used to create added value. Existing technologies should be applied in new and creative ways. Overall, solutions should strive to humanize technology.

• find innovative solutions for real challenges
• identify emerging fields of action
• present new solution strategies
• use novel technologies to create added value
• apply existing technologies in new and creative ways
• strive to humanize technology

Outcome and Business Value

Entrants should be able to show how a product or service is expected to succeed on the market. Feasibility and measurable outcomes should be reasonably explained.

• show how a solution is expected to succeed on the market
• explain feasibility and measurable outcomes

Holistic Thinking and User-Centric Approach

Solutions must be based on consistent user-centered research. The development process should align design, research and business functions to create the best of outcomes.

Products and services should take the extended context of a use case into consideration. The design process must take responsibility both for core users and actors in the background.

• consistent user-centered research
• development aligns design, research and business functions
• taking the extended context of a use case into consideration
• taking responsibility for core users and actors in the background

Design and Experience Quality

Submissions should excel through consistent design, intuitive use, interoperability, universal comprehensibility and inclusiveness. Services should offer a positive experience level across all touchpoints. Unnecessary features should be avoided.

Entries must show a high design quality: design systems, visual elements, aesthetics and brand fit are all part of a UX. UX writing is another important element: the quality of texts, an appropriate language and tone of voice complement the experience quality.

• consistent design, intuitive use, interoperability, universal comprehensibility, inclusion
• positive experience level across all touchpoints
• avoid unnecessary features
• high design quality: design systems, visual elements, aesthetics, brand fit
• high quality of texts, appropriate language and tone of voice

2023 UX Design Awards

Phone +49 30 61 62 321 18 / +49 30 61 62 321 17

E-mail contact@ux-design-awards.com

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