Third edition · Port Aldern

Design meets machine

Two days for the people who draw the interface and the people who ship it — in the same rooms, arguing about the same problems. Forty-eight talks, four workshops, no sponsored slots.

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Early rate £445 until 31 March 312 of 1,800 seats left at that price

Thursday — Friday Doors 08:00

13 14

May 2027

02Days

04Rooms

48Talks

1.8kSeats

The Kilnworks, Port Aldern Tram T2 to Kilnworks

Design systems
Type on screens
Spatial interfaces
Accessibility
Creative code
Agents in the loop
Motion
Research ops
Design systems
Type on screens
Spatial interfaces
Accessibility
Creative code
Agents in the loop
Motion
Research ops

Speakers paid, every one
Zero sponsored talks
Live captions on every stage
Recordings in fourteen days
Speakers paid, every one
Zero sponsored talks
Live captions on every stage
Recordings in fourteen days

The main stage in the Kiln, lit magenta and violet

Why Parallax

Designers and engineers, in one room

Most conferences split the audience at the door: the design track upstairs, the engineering track down the corridor, and the interesting argument happens in neither. Parallax programmes every slot so that both halves of a product team want to be in it.

Every speaker is paid the same fee. Sponsors fund the coffee and the captions, never a slot on stage. And the talks are chosen blind, from abstracts with the names taken off.

1,640

Came to the 2026 edition

52%

Design, the rest build it

£1,200

Paid to every speaker

Headline speakers

Two keynotes and forty people worth the train

All forty-two speakers →

Opening keynote

The interface is the policy

Odile Marchetti

Design Director, Fernhollow

Thu 13 May · 09:15 · The Kiln

Day two keynote

Latency is a design material

Kwame Asante-Reyes

Principal Engineer, Tollbridge

Fri 14 May · 09:15 · The Kiln

Signe Halvorsen

Type designer, Halvorsen & Dahl

Variable fonts after the novelty wears off

Craft · Thu 11:00

Hollis Adeyemi

Founder, Wrenfield Maps

Drawing the city from its own data

Main stage · Thu 11:00

Mei-Lin Okafor

Creative technologist, Saltmarsh

Make something nobody asked for

Closing · Fri 15:50

Jonah Whitcombe

Accessibility lead, Northgate Transit

Timetables for every body

Main stage · Thu 13:40

Four rooms, four colours

Pick a colour and stay, or cross the building

Talks run forty minutes with ten to move, and every room is a two-minute walk from every other. The colour on your badge is only a suggestion.

01

Main stage

The Kiln · 1,100 seats

Keynotes and the talks that concern everyone who ships software to strangers.

Designing for the agent in the loop
Timetables for every body
Lightning round: eight in sixty

02

Craft

Glaze Room · 320 seats

Type, motion, colour and sound — the materials, and how to work them well.

Motion with a budget
Colour that survives dark mode
Interfaces you can hear

03

Systems

The Annex · 180 seats

Design systems, tokens, tooling, and the organisations that have to keep them alive.

Tokens across twelve products
Your component library has a supply chain
Feature flags are a design tool

04

Workshops

Drying Loft · 40 places

Two-hour sessions with laptops open. Included with All-access, bookable separately.

Shaders for people who draw
Accessible data visualisation clinic
Sound design for interfaces

Standard two-day pass

Both days, every room, one party

Every talk in all three theatres, lunch and coffee on both days, the Kiln party on Thursday night, and every recording within fourteen days of the close.

£445Early, until 31 March

£545From 1 April

£145Students, all year

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What last year actually looked like

1,640

People through the doors across both days

94%

Said they would come back, in a survey of 812

31

Countries, though 60% came by train

0

Talks bought by a sponsor. Same again this year.

The only conference where my engineers came back arguing about typography and my designers came back arguing about latency.

Ines Moravec — Head of Design, Kettleby Systems

The programme lands by email first

One email when each batch of speakers is confirmed, one when the schedule is final, one the week before. Nothing else, and never passed to a sponsor.