About the UX Awards
The Vancouver User Experience Awards is an opportunity for growing startups, freelance practitioners, agencies, and user-centric enterprises to showcase their work and get recognized for the incredible experiences they create every day.
We've extended the submission deadline to October 1st! Start polishing up your submissions now!
Submissions for the 2021 Awards are now open! Head over to the Submissions page to learn more and enter your work. Good luck!
We're thrilled to announce that Selma Zafar has joined the Van UX Awards team as the 2021 Jury Chair. Read more about Selma and her work leading Best Buy's Experience Design team over here!
Announcing 2021's Jury Chair: Selma Zafar
Selma Zafar, Director of Experience Design at Best Buy Canada
Sponsors
The Vancouver UX Awards present an opportunity to showcase your organization’s commitment to user experience and to connect with a broad range of professionals at one of Vancouver’s largest technology events. This opportunity is ideal for those looking to recruit UX professionals, connect with technology leaders, and demonstrate commitment to great user experience. The Awards are unique in that they bring out a wide range of attendees—from seasoned practitioners to students just embarking on their careers.
Sponsorship opportunities for the 2021 Awards are now open! We're excited to continue working with the incredible organizations who have been supporting the Vancouver UX Awards for years, and look forward to welcoming new organizations as partners in '21.
You can view the 2021 sponsorship brochure here, and please reach out to Anthony Hempell, anthony@vancouveruxawards.com to chat more and get on board!
2021 Sponsors
Productboard
Showcase SponsorProductboard is the customer-centric product management platform that helps teams get the right products to market faster. Over 4,000 companies, including Microsoft, 1-800-Contacts, Zendesk, and UiPath, use Productboard to understand what users need, prioritize what to build next, and rally everyone around their roadmap.
Microsoft
UX for ProductMicrosoft Vancouver is home to engineers, designers, interns, leaders, learners, artists and collaborators. We are part of BC’s growing tech ecosystem, supporting start-ups, driving innovation and bringing the community together.
Best Buy Canada
UX for StudentsBest Buy Canada is an award-winning, multi-channel retailer with over 250 million visits in-store and online each year. Our Experience Design team drives the vision for the entire customer journey. They are a large and growing team of diverse specialists in UX, UI, Digital Design, Content Strategy and Copywriting.
Bananatag
Networking SponsorBananatag's multi-channel internal communication platform integrates with your email and chat channels as well as your employee directory, enabling you to schedule targeted messages from one location. Our drag-and-drop interface lets your team collaboratively build stunning emails, while detailed analytics measure employee engagement and help you continually improve your communications.
OXD
Mentorship SponsorOXD is an end-to-end design and technology consulting firm. We help complex organizations deliver new and better service experiences by putting people first.
BrainStation
Scholarship SponsorBrainStation is a global leader in digital skills training, empowering businesses and brands to succeed in the digital age. Established in 2012, BrainStation has worked with over 350 instructors from the most innovative companies, developing a range of certificate courses in digital marketing, social media marketing, and search engine marketing that has accelerated the career of more than a thousand marketers around the world.
Earls Restaurants
Community SponsorEarls Restaurants Ltd. is a family-owned operation started by Leroy Earl (Bus) Fuller and his son Stan Fuller in 1982. Earls has since grown to become one of the most successful, family-owned independent restaurant groups in North America with 66 locations across Canada (56) and the US (10).
Spatial research+design
Community SponsorSpatial is a Research and Design Consultancy Specializing in Digital Innovation. We use best practices in human-centred design to help our clients explore product ideas, solve problems, and create exceptional digital experiences.
MetaLab
Community SponsorAt MetaLab, we make interfaces. From Fortune 500 companies to fresh and new startups, we help our clients design, build, and ship products and services that people love.
Capilano University
Community SponsorCapilano University’s Bachelor of Design in Visual Communication is known for the quality and industry-readiness of its graduates, and offers concentrations in branding, illustration, and interactive design. We are proud of our students’ success in winning provincial, national, and international awards, and of our program’s excellent record of graduate employment.
POWERSHiFTER
Community SponsorPOWERSHiFTER is a Vancouver based product studio that strategizes, designs and develops digital products your customers will love. Our products focus on user experience that are the key to winning your customer’s hearts, minds, and brand loyalty.
Habanero
Community SponsorHabanero helps organizations realize their potential by bringing their purpose and values to life, creating exceptional employee experiences, and implementing the technology required to transform. Habanero pairs a human-centered design perspective with a deep understanding of enterprise technology to create exceptional experiences for everyone.
Skyrocket Digital
Community SponsorSkyrocket Digital is a digital branding agency that works with organizations worldwide to build human experiences for a digital world and specializes in helping brands tell their stories gracefully, authentically and with impact. Skyrocket has partnered with 60+ brands across various industries and at all stages of growth to deliver on brand strategy, web experience, and marketing & growth.
Procurify
Community SponsorProcurify is a spend management platform that makes tracking and controlling company spend easy, efficient, and valuable. We are a fast-growing, remote-first Series B funded startup and our people are empowered to try their wildest ideas every day.
Invoke
Community SponsorInvoke is a digital product studio that tackles real problems, exposes ideas to the market, and turns them into validated and shipped products.
TechInColour
Community SponsorTechInColour creates and cultivates spaces where Black, Indigenous, and people of colour in the tech industry are centered and celebrated. We aim to bring racialized people who want to learn and build innovative technology together in a supported environment with mentors from the community. Look out for our upcoming podcast project in the digital wild!
Aviso Wealth
Community SponsorAviso Wealth is a national, integrated financial services company catering to the wealth management needs of Canada’s credit unions and a range of independent financial organizations.
Mind Meld PR
Community SponsorMind Meld PR is a Vancouver-based PR agency that gets media coverage for tech companies. As former journalists, we know what reporters are looking for in a story - and that gives our clients the edge. We combine proven strategies with technology and a big dash of creativity to help startups and large tech leaders get into the news.