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

"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.

"You know rhythms we don't" - Farai Madzima Join the team from blueegg as we discuss our highlights from UX Australia 2018. Two full days of local and international conference presentations covering a huge range of topics and ideas relevant to experienced practitioners, newbies and everyone in between. Adam, Amanda, Dustin, Leanne and Aaron recap Day 2 of the conference. If you’d like to be a guest on the show, get in touch at aaron@blueegg.com.au

"Decision makers aren't evil, they just don't know any better" - Iain Barker Join the team from blueegg as we discuss our highlights from UX Australia 2018. Two full days of local and international conference presentations covering a huge range of topics and ideas relevant to experienced practitioners, newbies and everyone in between. Adam, Amanda, Dustin, Leanne and Aaron recap Day 1 of the conference. If you’d like to be a guest on the show, get in touch at aaron@blueegg.com.au

“I’ve a really strong ethos, which is design with, not for” Sonya Corcoran is a coder, UX Designer and tech nerd. She takes the ideas in the heads of people and puts them on computers that are working together. "I do this so everyone can learn from one another and make the world a better place" As an Educational Designer at University of Sydney, she’s developed a number of strategies to engage with time poor stakeholders and gain their buy in to the design process. We also discuss how universities can improve their Student Experience, especially in terms of International Students. If you’d like to be a guest on the show, get in touch at aaron@blueegg.com.au

“Be aware that categories exist, and we make decisions based on putting people into buckets, and be aware of what kind of decisions we’re making and how they get made." Donna is a design leader and product all rounder close to 20 years experience. She’s worked in many industries, including government, telecommunications, insurance, retail, not-for-profit, higher education and many more. She’s written three books: on information architecture, card sorting and writing for the web. When we caught up with her in Melbourne, we chatted about the collection of data sets, how data can be misused and what the impacts are for machine learning and coming of AI systems. If you’d like to be a guest on the show, get in touch at aaron@blueegg.com.au

“It’s incredibly important to be open to the opinions and the experiences of those people who will be using a service and actually doing something with their voices as well.” Sarah McCarthy is a Diversity and Inclusion consultant who has been working with large corporates to help them design inclusion programs for women from marginalised communities. Her passion for creating more inclusive spaces for women has also lead her to create a mentoring program for LGBTQIA+ Women. In this episode she details what inspired her to follow this career path, and how human centred practices have been an important tool for her work. If you’d like to be a guest on the show, get in touch at aaron@blueegg.com.au

“If we can instil a human centred approach from a very early stage in a business, then the ability to deliver long term value & long term benefits for their users is huge” Adam Faulkner is Experience Design Director at blueegg. His background as a scientist allows him to take a scientific approach to human-centred design. In this episode he reflects on his trip to UX London 2018 and the endless search for a perfect Negroni. If you’d like to be a guest on the show, get in touch at aaron@blueegg.com.au