Chapters
Design & Agony – Facilitation Edition
Part comedy, part design, part coaching. Rich Brophy, Jason Crane and Lujan Martinez Cima brought us a snappy and entertaining session covering some of the greatest hits of facilitation. 🎶 Tips and tricks from some of the best in the biz: 1. Experiment with exercises....
Design and Creativity in Business
It was great to have Lauren Tan, Kyle Soderberg, Charmian Grove and Neha Chandra from Deloitte Digital on the Sydney Chapter meetup! During the session the group covered three main areas: Their journey 🎢 – How each of them came...
Design for Cognitive Bias: Using Mental Shortcuts for Good Instead of Evil
On Wednesday, September 16, we had the honor and pleasure to host David Dylan Thomas at our second event for the Berlin chapter. David shared with us his learnings and insights about Design for Cognitive Bias. David used real-world examples...
Pairing systems thinking & HCD in the criminal justice system
In July, we had our first event in Berlin, hosting Kate Goodwin to share with us her experiences applying systems-thinking and human-centered design to create SupportingJustice.net. SupportingJustice.net is an initiative driving systemic change in Victoria, Australia’s criminal justice system, in...
Nathan Baird on cracking the toughest phase of HCD
“HCD is becoming mainstream, yet innovation success rates aren’tincreasing!“ This week we had Nathan Baird on the Sydney Chapter meetup speaking to us about how we can generate compelling customer insights that lead to innovation. Nathan gave some great practical...
Panel Discussion on Employee Experience (EX) vs Customer Experience (CX) – Why the big divide?
“Employee Experience is more than just having a ping pong table” This week the Sydney Chapter invited Catherine Wiggett, Nathan Birch, Emma Jones, Lurnea Simmons, Lucas Olmos, Greg Hodgson and Kimberely Barrett onto a panel to discuss Employee Experience, how...
Jessica Pang on the principles of creating an onboarding that works
“The on-boarding experience starts when the customer discovers the brand” Yesterday Jessica Pang gave an amazing presentation based on her years working in the travel industry. You can check out Jessica’s full talk below. Some of the key insights were:...
Mike Hall on the problems Design Systems solve and their impact on design
“Consistency is one of the cornerstones of usability” Last week Mike Hall led an incredible discussion around design systems. He focused on both their impact on teams/companies that use them and the designs that are created. You can view the...
Shruti Rai on Designing for the Edge Cases.
Politics is about power, in particular, the power to change. Shruti Rai gave a fantastic talk to the Sydney Chapter.
Sasha Abram on navigating the labyrinth of human relations in design.
Designing involves many levels of politics. This talk focused on the complexity of interpersonal relationships, in a not-for-profit start-up and how Sasha navigated her role as Design Lead (and Product Owner!) in this tangled web of relations.