UX VIENNA visits the Neuraths at the Wien Museum 🧍♀️🧍♀️🧍♀️🧍🧍🧍🧍♂️🧍♂️
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Designing Clarity Before UX Had a Name
If you work in UX, product, service, or information design; data visualization; or user research — or if you simply care about how design shapes understanding — then this event is for you!
100 years ago in Vienna, Marie and Otto Neurath, along with Gerd Arntz, created the International System of Typographic Picture Education (ISOTYPE), a design system that transforms data into understanding. This was long before UX even existed.
👉 Join us on Saturday, January 31, 2026 at 2 PM
for a group visit to the Neurath exhibition, "Knowledge for All", at the Wien Museum.
We'll walk through the exhibition together, after which we'll have drinks and discuss one central question:
What does it mean to design like this — today?
We'll connect their ideas to today's UX practices:
- How do we design for clarity and accessibility at scale?
- How do diverse roles align around one shared model of meaning?
- And, most fascinatingly, how would the Neuraths approach our challenges now?
Action items
- Select "Attend" to attend the event
- Purchase your special exhibition ticket (only the permanent exhibition is for free)
- Meet us at the entrance at 2 PM
Photo copyrights: Housing density in cities: © Bibliographisches Institut AG, Leipzig / Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsmuseum Wien, Archive: University of Reading – Otto & Marie Neurath Isotype Collection. Marie Neurath: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 link Photos of the exhibition: Klaus Pichler, Wien Museum