
The Art of Mindfulness in Product Design
Remya Ramesh, The Art of Mindfulness in Product Design
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Remya Ramesh, The Art of Mindfulness in Product Design
About the Talk
Human Centred Design focuses on people. We use empathy to understand how a problem affects people and frame what success looks like around their needs.
While we’ve been highly focussed on people, the climate has tumbled past another alarming tipping point.
So what are the limitations of our current approach to Human Centred Design?
And is the way we design failing the natural world?
Daniel Neville, Customer Experience Designer at Vision Australia and Lecturer at RMIT, will introduce UX Gatherings to the Anthropocene — a length of time encompassing the significant human impact on Earth’s geology and ecosystems.
Dan will address how Human Centred Design needs to evolve to address the emergent problems we face, both in our jobs, and our mindset.
About Dan
Dan is a Customer Experience Designer at Vision Australia and a lecturer of UX at RMIT. He's previously worked for Symplicit, Versant, and Appster with a design career spanning over a decade.
Dan holds a Masters of DIgital Design from the Univesity of Canberra and an Honours in Theory of Design from Monash.
Dan also ran Prototypes & Popcorn, a monthly event of curated movies exploring the methods, tools, and artefacts of design. He believes in designerly ways of thinking and doing, that iteration almost always beats innovation, and all scales should be considered when designing for people, not users.
Code of Conduct
UX Gatherings is dedicated to harassment-free event experiences for everyone. To attend an event you must follow our Code of Conduct.
Acknowledgement of Country
UX Gatherings acknowledges that we meet in Narrm on the lands of the Wurundjeri people and pay our respects to elders past, present and emerging.
Venue Details
This month UX Gatherings is hosted by Culture Amp
The venue is accessible for mobility devices
About the Talk
Over the last decade User Experience has evolved into an integral practice within organisations.
With it’s rapid adoption we’ve witnessed UX roles become the catch-all term for multiple design disciplines and in turn a blurring of responsibilities for the modern UX practitioner.
So what will UX as an industry look like in the near future?
Catherine Hills kicks off this years UX Gatherings sharing her observations and predictions about the blending of design disciplines and what practitioners need to do to stay relevant as our industry evolves.
About Catherine
Catherine Hills is a Human-Centred Experience Designer & Researcher based in Melbourne.
Currently a UX Lead at Seek, Cath has worked at a number of well respected UX practices in ANZ, REA Group, Thoughtworks, 99designs, Envato & the University of Melbourne.
Cath is a research candidate at RMIT, was the first UX Mentor for Berlin-based start-up CareerFoundry’s UX Design course, and has facilitated several UX Design, Design Thinking and Service Design courses for General Assembly.
Code of Conduct
UX Gatherings is dedicated to harassment-free event experiences for everyone. To attend an event you must follow our Code of Conduct.
Acknowledgement of Country
UX Gatherings acknowledges that we meet in Narrm on the lands of the Wurundjeri people and pay our respects to elders past, present and emerging.
Venue Details
This month UX Gatherings is hosted by Culture Amp
The venue is accessible for mobility devices
Mega Meetup Details
2017 is coming to a close and the UX community events in Melbourne thought it was time again for our UX Mega Meetup!
Whether you've been busy getting into the industry, honing your skills, or grinding away at those stakeholders we're inviting you to come share a drink and a story with your colleagues to celebrate and reflect on the year that's been and the year ahead.
Sponsors
Thank you REA Group for hosting this years Mega Meetup at your wonderful HQ as well as putting on food and drinks!
Code of Conduct
The UX Mega Meetup has a Code of Conduct that all organisers, sponsors and guest must adhere to. Please take the time to read our Code of Conduct so everyone can enjoy a harassment free event experience.
Venue Details
All gender accessible bathrooms
Accessible by mobility devices
Are we simply designing great digital experiences that solve business problems or do we have the capacity to truly shift society?
As UX practices mature we’re embracing that experiences extend beyond the screen and into the real world.
While we often focus on digital navigation what can we learn and apply from the process of creating usable signage in the real world?
Inna Fourer will discuss how to combine three principles — purpose, form and design — with a human-centred design process to create the most affective type of physical signage. This talk is for anyone interested in using way finding to blend digital and physical design. Inna will review examples of effective and ineffective signage based on principles of way finding, information and instructional design.
Inna Fourer is a UX Consultant at DiUS working on projects across a range of UX disciplines, industries, and mediums. DiUS is an end-to-end technology consultancy focused on finding the right solution for the user. Inna’s background in signage and eLearning design give her a unique perspective in blending digital and physical experiences.
UX Gatherings is dedicated to harassment-free event experiences for everyone. To attend an event you must follow our Code of Conduct.
UX Gatherings acknowledges that we meet on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri people, and pay our respect to elders past, present and future.
Taking time to understand an organisation’s UX Maturity can bring clarity of what’s working, what’s not, and how you can make a bigger impact. Mags Hanley will take us through different UX Maturity Models and provide a framework to asses your own organisation’s UX Maturity
This month, Strategy Consultant Jessica Abad Kelly is joining UX Gatherings to talk about how she advocates for users and customers through her work with Deloitte.
Jessica will show us why users are the foundation of strategy, and how she works with clients to define, develop and implement user-centered strategy for digital projects.
Creating a human-focussed culture within the organisation you work for can feel like a never-ending struggle. How can you make an impact on culture when you're looking from the outside in?
Fiona Slocombe shares how Pause Fest 2017 was designed.
Designers are useful people. Our superpowers are solving problems and communicating ideas. So why do we specialise in features, interfaces and interactions?
Cory-Ann Joseph compares UX in Dublin and Melbourne
Speaker: Angela Bode
When: Wednesday 26 October 6pm to 7:30pm
Where: REA Group, 511 Church St, Richmond
Cost: Free
It's an exciting time for Experience Design! But what about Junior Designers? They’re fresh to the industry, hungry to learn and excited to get started. how do you break into UX?
We’re celebrating the first anniversary of UX Gatherings! We have NASA UX Manager, Steve Hillenius, sharing his unique experience working with with astronauts, scientists and engineers.
Melbourne's biggest UX meetup! Four UX communities collide on one night in August to bring you Mega Meetup 2016.
How do you go about conducting user research in an unfamiliar country? What happens when you can’t speak the local language and you’re not part of the culture?
What makes a bad design leader?Cam Rogers—Head of UX at SEEK—joins UX Gatherings in May to speak about the qualities and practices of good design leaders.
Peter Grierson, Senior UX Researcher at REA Group, joins UX Gatherings on April 5th to talk about the practical application of eye tracking using the high tech Tobii Pro Glasses 2 for realestate.com.au.
The design process can at times seem confusing and intangible. Why do we make certain decisions, how do our ideas come to fruition?
Visual Designer Frederick Loo joins UX Gatherings to talk about what’s it’s like to be thrown into the deep end of UX.
UX Gatherings has a special screening of the extended interviews from the Helvetica, Objectified, and Urbanized documentary series.
What don't you know about the people you're designing for? Kayla Heffernan talks assumptions for this month's UX Gatherings.
UX Gatherings meetup to reflect on favourite moments from UX Australia 2015.