A massive welcome to Gold Coast Design Thinking (GCDT) who have officially joined our Australia Design Thinking (AusDT) collective!
I’m stoked to be collaborating with Rob Napier, Ash Donaldson, Tam Nóbrega, and Dario Civinelli who are convening GCDT (formally UXGC). This opens up stronger collaboration, a more connected design community, and a way to explore a broader range of topics… and as they said:
“A wider community of thinkers, doers, and dreamers – across UX, product, visual design, behavioural science, strategy, research and beyond 🙋🙋♀️🙋🏻♂️”
If you’re in the area – or looking for a good excuse to visit the Goldie – join the Gold Coast Design Thinking community.
A shoutout and thanks to William Stuart who made the intro to Rob and has been supporting the transition. Love your work mate! Also another thanks to Gabriel Grieve who worked with Will in June to create our refreshed visual identity!
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗔𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗮 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 (𝗔𝘂𝘀𝗗𝗧)?
AusDT is a collective of place-based design communities with 12,000+ members in Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane, Byron, Melbourne, Gold Coast – and online. More to come.
We’re lucky to have a thriving design community in Australia and each of these communities is convened by local people who invest so much in building community and the ecosystem. The crew who lovingly convene these communities are:
💚 Sydney Design Thinking: Ben Pecotich, Lucas Mara, Kate Linton, & Kylie Mageropoulos
💚 Adelaide Design Thinking: Tash Ballantyne & Maria Raymond
💚 Byron Design Thinking: Will Stuart
💚 Brisbane Design Thinking: Johanna Bullin
💚 Melbourne Design Thinking: Mickey Rummery, Rachel Zhang & Brad Alphonso
💚 Gold Coast Design Thinking: Rob Napier, Ash Donaldson, Tam Nóbrega & Dario Civinelli
AusDT’s purpose is to build a connected community and ecosystem of people from a diverse range of design and business practices, industries, contexts, and roles… to learn, share, and get exposed to what’s possible.
Our vision is design thinking is used as a human-centred design and living systems approach to innovation and solving complex problems – to help create great outcomes for people, our planet, and business.
In design, we talk a lot about collaboration. I love seeing it in action and I’m stoked I get to spend time with all of these awesome people.
A huge thanks to everyone who makes up our ecosystem… the members of each community who turn up and engage so openly, the speakers who share their experience, the sketchnoters and others who capture and share it, and the sponsors who make it possible without a crazy price tag.
Plenty more to come…
A reminder that we’re hosting our first casual Australia Design Thinking (AusDT) meetup at SXSW Sydney on 14 October. Come join the fun 😃
