• 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.

• Achieve high visibility through 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 attention for your projects.
• Get long-term exposure for your projects through the UX Design Awards virtual exhibition and yearbook (print and digital).
• Take full advantage of the logo packages, certificates and trophies we provide at all levels of competition.
• Create impactful PR opportunities, attract and engage a global audience through our virtual events and awards ceremonies.

• Virtual exhibition: avg. 120,000 users, 364,000 page views annually
• Public Choice Award voting: avg. 30,000 annual participants worldwide
• LinkedIn & social media: +130,000 followers, avg. monthly growth rate: 3.8K
• Post impressions: 250,000 - 500,000 monthly
• Live events: avg. 3,000 video views, 6,000 impressions, 4.8% engagement rate per virtual event

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

Competition entries can be compiled and submitted from September to November and March to May each year.

Professionals – businesses, design consultancies, R&D units – 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.

You can register a participant profile at any time. Competition entries can be compiled and submitted from September to November and March to May each 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 checklist and the full participant guidelines.
• You can add a promotional film for PR and a short product explanation video for the judges (recommended).
• In addition, you can upload a PDF with information on user research or 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.

Among all valid submissions, the jury will select a number of Nominees that 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 fee will be due upon acceptance of a nomination.

• In subsequent judging rounds, the jury will choose the Award winners and special mentions in 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!

New Talent section:

• Submission fee: € 70

Professional sections Product and Concept:

• Submission fee: € 320
• Nomination package: € 2,250

Fees include all services related 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 Berlin the submission fee for one project is waived.

Please download the full participation guidelines, terms & conditions and prices here. Lots of success for your participation in the UX Design Awards!

We expect submissions to be relevant in their respective application field or industry. 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

Entries should empower people by improving human abilities in their field of action – by enabling users to fulfill their tasks in a better way, or by providing access to new fields of usage or knowledge. In addition, products and services should strive to uphold social values and cohesion by strengthening inclusion and participation.

• improve human abilities
• enable users to fulfill tasks in a better way
• provide access to new fields of application or knowledge
• strive to uphold social values and cohesion
• strengthen inclusion and participation

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

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

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

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
• avoiding unnecessary features
• high design quality: design systems, visual elements, aesthetics, brand fit
• high quality of texts, appropriate language and tone of voice