Marla Mitelman – EUX Sydney November 2018

blueegg, in conjunction with our friends from Sustain Digital, are the proud hosts of the Enterprise UX Sydney MeetUp. Our final event for 2018 saw Marla Mitelman from BCG Digital Ventures come along and talk to us about her vision for the Future of Design in 2019.

This was our last event for 2018, but we’ve got plenty more coming your way next year, including our first collaboration with IxDA for the Design Operations Essentials day with Dave Malouf in January 2019. Stay tuned for more EUX Sydney events in 2019.

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Richard Sison – User Experience Lead at PreviousNext

“Design IS about communication, and I think words in your designs are so critical to be able to communicate something you want”

In this episode of Plastic Grass Square, Aaron talks to Richard about the importance of good microcopy, how to build good teams that work well together and what Richard is looking forward to in 2019.

Richard is the User Experience Lead at PreviousNext; an agency specialising in user experience design and developing large-scale Drupal websites for clients such as ServiceNSW, Transport for NSW, Amaysim and UTS.

He’s an interaction and user experience designer with a focus on the product and ecommerce space. On the side he also runs a blog which showcases effective examples of Good Microcopy – goodmicrocopy.com

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Ben Pecotich – Plastic Grass Square Podcast guest

Ben Pecotich from Dynamic 4 is our Plastic Green Square guest for October. Aaron had a wide ranging chat with Ben covering the foundations of Dynamic 4, what Social Enterprise is all about and how new designers can make themselves stand out in a noisy marketplace.

Plastic Grass Square – S1E7 Ben Pecotich Design And Innovation Director

“More experienced Design Leaders who are recruiting teams don’t hire UX Designers without some kind of slash, like Design Research or Prototyper or Visual Design”

Ben strongly believes that engaging and empowering people is a powerful and sustainable approach to achieving positive change. He’s an active supporter of social enterprise and ways of applying collaborative consumption, collective impact, and other sharing economy principles and practices.

Founder and managing director of Dynamic4 (a 16 year old purpose-driven design & innovation company, and certified B Corp). Co-founder of two social enterprises: Jetpack for Changemakers, and Better Goals.

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EUX Sydney Meetup September 2018

blueegg is proud to co-host the EUX Sydney meetup with our friends from Sustain Digital and support from Tank Stream Labs. The September edition of our Meetup saw presentations from Katie Osborne and Richard Sison. The videos are now UP on YouTube for your viewing.

Katie is the Product Design Manager for MYOB and spoke to us about “How to develop a strategy vision platform experience.”

Richard is the User Experience Lead at Previous Next and shared his recent talk given down at UX Australia on “The role of Microcopy in UX.”

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Plastic Grass Square Podcast New Episodes

Plastic Grass Square is BACK with new episodes and a recap of UX Australia 2018.

Inclusivity & Diversity Consultant Sarah McCarthy details how using human centered design processes have shaped her approach to creating services for her clients.

We chat to Donna Spencer from Maadmob about the collection of data, how that could be used or misused to teach machine learning and AI tools.

Sonya Corcoran from Lookahead Search drops by to talk all things learning design and student experience.

blueegg’s own Adam Faulkner takes us through his trip to UX London earlier in the year.

And then finishing up this run of episodes we have the blueegg team’s recap of UX Australia 2018.

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Plastic Grass Square, brought to you by the team behind blueegg Experience Design, is a podcast about being human centred in our work practices and daily lives. We are, after all, not the user. Join us as we chat to folks about how they apply human centred approaches to their lives.

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On Friday, 6th July blueegg Design Director Adam Faulkner presented to Sydney.Concepts.Westmead on How User Research Informs Design.

“It’s about talking to people, picking up the patterns, and seeing how we can use that … if we can see clear patterns, that gives us evidenced based reasoning to make design decisions”

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The University of Sydney has introduced Sydney Concepts at Westmead, a series of conversations between the university and Westmead precinct staff, students, researchers, industry experts and practitioners. The series aims to foster knowledge sharing and collaborative opportunities, with an emphasis on innovative approaches.

The Westmead Hospital precinct is undergoing significant redevelopment to transform the area into a workable, liveable city. The redevelopment is focused on integrated healthcare, education and research. It aims to move Westmead from being a large hospital to an area that attracts staff, students, residents, researchers and visitors from all over the world.

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On our most recent episode of Plastic Grass Square we discussed the UX London event from May this year. The event organisers, Clearleft have posted the UX London presentations to their Vimeo channel. There’s plenty to explore, not just our selections!

Here’s the presentations we spoke about on the most recent podcast episode for your viewing pleasure –

The End of Navel Gazing: Paul Adams, UX London 2018.

The future of public service design: Louise Downe, UX London 2018

Onboarding for the long run: Krystal Higgins, UX London 2018

Design like a Scientist: A/B Testing UX at Netflix: Navin Iyengar, UX London 2018

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blueegg is proud to co-host the Enterprise UX Sydney MeetUp with our friends from Sustain Digital Recruitment and the support of Tank Stream Labs.

This month we had presentations from Organisational Psychologists Johanna Tibbertsma, Customer Experience Designer at iCare NSW and Aine Hart, UX Director at Sitback. If you missed the event or want to watch their presentations again, here are all the links you need.

Johanna Tibbertsma – Barriers to measuring UX/CX

Presentation – Johanna Tibbertsma – EUX Sydney May 2018

Aine Hart – Social Influence in Design Research

Presentation – Aine Hart – EUX Sydney May 2018

Keep an eye on our events page for details of the next Meetup coming in July