UX Design Awards 2025

UX Design Awards 2025 now is over!

UX Design Awards 2025: The UX Design Awards 2025, international annual competition, organised by International Design Center Berlin (IDZ) has been recently opened for submission, with a focus on user experience and design, a key added value for connected life and work.

➜ Short description

The UX Design Awards 2025, an global competition with a specific focus on user experience and design organised by the International Design Center Berlin (IDZ), is now open for submissions.

This competition focus on the positive impact of people-centric solutions, concepts and research. Positive user experiences increase people’s satisfaction, expand their possibilities and strengthen their trust in organizations, companies, systems, services and products. The awards reflect the impact experience design has on shaping a positive living environment for all.

Companies, agencies, professionals, and young designers worldwide are invited to enter their best work in three competition categories: “Product” and “Concept” for the professional sector and “New Talent” for up-and coming designers.

The UX Design Awards are judged by the following criteria: Relevance, Empowerment, Innovation, Outcome & Business Value, Holistic Thinking & User-centric Approach, Design & Experience Quality.

A jury of renowned experts will nominate outstanding projects to compete in the 2025 UX Design Awards and select the winners. The selected projects will receive the title UX Design Award | Nominated. They will be promoted extensively and take part in the judging for the Awards and Special Mentions.

Winners will be announced on 5 March 2025.

➜ Submission requirements:

➜ Solutions for all industries and application fields will be accepted.

➜ Submissions must include digital or electronic interfaces or functions. The market launch – or the start of the development process – must not date back more than two years at the time of submission.

➜ Who may enter?

Professionals – businesses, design consultancies, R&D units – can enter recent (maximum two years old) projects in two competition categories:

➜ Product: open to market-ready and new products, services and experiential environments
➜ Concept: open to prototypes, MVPs, service concepts, conceptual environments, foresight studies and research projects

Students, graduates and schools can enter bachelor’s or master’s projects in the New Talent category.

➜ Prize:

Gold Award

By awarding the UX Design Award | Gold, the jury of experts from design, research and business honors the best projects of each competition.

Award

In each category, the jury presents the following titles to outstanding products, concepts, services and research projects: UX Design Award | Product, UX Design Award | Concept, and among emerging designers the UX Design Award | New Talent.

In addition, UX professionals and users worldwide vote online to select a UX Design Award | Public Choice among all nominees.

Special Mention

With a Special Mention, the jury can emphasize specific individual qualities of nominated projects.

Nomination

Among all valid submissions, the jury nominates a limited number of entries to participate in the competition. All selected projects receive the title UX Design Award | Nominated. They are promoted extensively and take part in the judging for the Awards and Special Mentions.

➜ Entry fees:

Submission fee is € 320, instead for category New Talent is € 70