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Speaking

Open for speaking

For 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

On Metamuse: tools for creators vs consumer software, mental models, opinionated vs open-ended tools, and staying true to the web as material — with Adam Wiggins, Mark McGranaghan, and guests.

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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

On growing up with analog tools, early no-code apps like Flash and Dreamweaver, and how they led to real engineering craft.

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