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Speaking

Future

For speaking inquiries, email david@davidhoang.com.

2026

  • May Hatch Leadership Ateliers, Amsterdam

2025

  • May NYCxDESIGN: The future of software design
  • May Config 2025: Maturing your teams & your leadership

2024

  • September Hatch Conference: Design and (Blank)

2022

  • October Disco Conf by Maze: Prototyping towards outcomes
  • November Front Utah: Leading and operating design orgs

2021

  • April Figma Config: The Universal Challenges of Every Scaling Design Team
  • March Design Career Network — From Designer to Manager
  • January Product Hive: Lessons Learned in Prototyping

2020

  • December Curiosity: The Product Development Superpower (Duke University)
  • November Principles and Allegories (Hyper Island)

2019

  • November No Code Conference
  • November Productized in Lisbon, Portugal
  • April Designing for healthcare

2018

  • October UXDX in Dublin, Ireland
  • September UX Cambridge in Cambridge, UK — An introduction to human-centred design leadership
  • June UX Scotland in Edinburgh, Scotland — Play the part: an introduction to technology experience prototyping
  • June UX Scotland in Edinburgh, Scotland — Human-Centered Design Leadership
  • March try!Swift, Tokyo, Japan
  • February Seattle Xcoders in Seattle, Washington

2017

  • September UX Cambridge
  • September SwiftConf in Cologne, Germany
  • June Cocoa Conf Next Door in San Jose, California
  • March Design for Healthcare: Designing For Doctors
  • March Seattle Xcoders: Build Like a Kid

2016

  • September 29 VanCocoa
  • September 14–16 UX Cambridge
  • September 9–10 CocoaConf Washington DC
  • May 6–7 CocoaConf in Seattle, WA
  • April 14 Seattle Xcoders: Me too! Designers working in Xcode
  • April 6 Tradecraft: Fast With Intent — Learning Through Rapid Prototyping

2015

  • July 15 Seattle Prototyping for Designers
  • May 8–9 CocoaConf 2015 in Portland, Oregon: Designing For WATCH
  • January 8 Seattle Xcoders in Seattle, Washington: Designing for WATCH before it ships

2013

  • Seattle Ignite: Coast-To-Coast: How to live in two cities

Media & publications

Essays and appearances — titles and descriptions are pulled from each page when the build runs.

Designing creative tools with David Hoang // Metamuse podcast episode 47

Designing tools for creators is harder than consumer software, but also potentially more rewarding. David leads design at Webflow, and he joins Adam and Mark to talk about mental models, opinionated versus open-ended tools, and being true to the materials. Plus: why complexity…

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How no-code tools can help your coding

On CodeNewbie: how no-code and visual tools sit alongside engineering practice—and how they helped me grow as a builder.

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From no-code to know code | Webflow Blog

Webflow’s director of design, David Hoang, shares about his analog upbringing and how early no-code tools like Flash and Dreamweaver taught him to code.

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