Howdy ATX creatives! Here’s your curated list of design 🎨, product 👩‍💻, and art 🧑‍🎨 events around Austin this week (5/11–5/17). The events I plan to attend are marked with ⭐️’s :)

Tuesday 5/13:

• 8-9:30am - Coffee Connection Presented by KUT Public Media & Austin Young Chamber @ KUT 90.5 FM

• 6-8pm - AB️DC Austin Bitcoin Design Club @ Bitcoin Park Austin https://www.m

• ⭐️ 6-9pm - AIGA Creative Mass @ Hopsquad Brewing Co

Wednesday 5/14:

• 7-9pm - EFF Austin Indie Microblogging and the Fediverse @ Capital Factory

• ⭐️ 9:30am-5:30pm - ️ATX x Civo Navigate @ Etter-Harbin Alumni Center

• 6-8pm - Prosper XO Town Hall & Meet-Up: The Beginning @ Capital Factory

• 6-9pm - AIA Austin 2025 Design Awards Celebration @ Austin PBS

• 6-9pm - Reunio: Interest-Based Speed Networking @ Capital Factory

Thursday 5/15:

• ⭐️ 5-7pm - Angry Hour™: The Happy Hour for Pissed-Off Optimists, ATX Edition @ St. Elmo Brewing (ticketed 🎟️)

• 5:30-8pm - Austin Women in Technology (AWT) Embracing Risk with Confidence @ Clay Pit Contemporary Indian Cuisine (ticketed 🎟️)

• 6-8pm - FIESTA CPO Perspectives on SaaS + AI: What Actually Works @ Capital Factory

• 6-8pm - AIGA Professional Development Series: Creativity x AI @ Createscape Coworking (ticketed 🎟️)

• 6:30-8:30pm - UXPA: Personal Branding for Current & Future Design Leaders w/ Eunji Jeong @ Online

• ⭐️ 7-9pm - Open Austin - Navigating a Changing Job Landscape: Design Community of Practice @ Cherrywood Coffeehouse

Friday 5/16:

• ⭐️ 8-9:45am - CreativeMornings w/Nick Shuley @ GSD&M

• 8:30-10:30am - Artimus Fund Austin Female Founders & Friends @ Cosmic Saltillo

• 12-6pm - Friends Fair (Day 1 of 2) @ The Loren Hotel

Saturday 5/17:

• 9-11am - Lady Bird Lake Entrepreneur Cooperative Ruck/Walk @ The Buzz Mill

• 1-5pm - AUTMHQ Tech Summit 2025 @ 506 Congress Ave

Please reach out (via email or LinkedIn) if you have any feedback or event suggestions. I am always happy to talk shop and refer people, groups, and tools that will help you level up. To see more events, check out AustinUX.org. Hope to see y’all out and about!

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