We reflected on and celebrated the year that’s been at SydDT #107/Design Connection #4 last Thursday night. This was our 16th and final SydDT for 2024. A fun interactive session and another in our design megameetup series with our friends from the CCX and EUX meetups.
This continued our tradition of EOY megameetups since 2018.
Susan Wolfe shared some reflections on the year and celebrated the awesome design community we have in Sydney. She also posed two questions…
- What were your biggest takeaways from 2024?
- What are your aspirations for 2025?
Thanks to everyone who came along and made it such a fun night. Couldn’t make it or just want to relive it? It’s on Youtube now.
This event was brought to you by Atlassian and Dynamic4. Another huge thanks to Sarah Stokes!
Wrapping Up 2024
It’s been another huge year for SydDT with 16 meetups. We also celebrated our ninth birthday. I’ll reflect more over the coming weeks, but I want to say a huge thanks to the awesome SydDT community… which has grown to 9,700+ members. Thanks for turning up and making it all so much fun!
As new people come along, I consistently hear how they feel welcomed and included, about the value they get from the great speakers generously sharing their experience… and of course how much fun they had.
Thanks to our speakers
A massive thanks to the speakers who shared their valuable insights on a diverse range of topics… Dr Kate Gwynne, Michael Wilkens (visiting from Denmark), Alex Bilbie-Clarke, Omar Samad, Tim Hardaker, Sue Kwak, Emma Gogolewski, Esse Spadavecchia, Angela Mayer, Sarah Heimeier, Emmanuelle Delannoy, Nirish Shakya (visiting from London/Nepal), Bronwyn Sowden, Paul Hawkins, Petra Williams, Martin Tomitsch, Steve Baty, Therese Konwerski, Keith Diamond, Chris Rollings, Tarra van Amerongen, Daniel Szuc (visiting from Hong Kong), Susan Wolfe, Jake Causby, Julie Demsey, Julian Munford, Manisha Amin, Shaheen, Mariane Power, Jenny Han, Steve Packham, Ben Crothers, and Nila Rezaei. Thanks!
Thanks to our collaborators
The SydDT community includes the people and organisations we collaborate with to make the meetup happen every month (or multiple times a month). Thanks for being a valued part of the community and a great supporter.
This year that includes Michelle Cabanela from ThinkPlace, Kate Linton from Thoughtworks, Sarah Stokes from Atlassian, Jenny Han, Jennifer Murphy, Kristine Souksamrane & Steve Packham from Design at Macquarie Group, Grant Show from Design Outlook, Alan Chen & Diana Ayoub from Sh8peshifters, Susan Wolfe from Leapfrog Studio, Stephen Summerhayes from Food Agility, Selena Griffith from Enactus Australia, ABC, SXSW Sydney, Lanson Partners, The Growth Habit, and Dynamic4.
Thanks to our graphic recorders
A shout out to our graphic recorders. We officially started a collaboration with Alan Chen and Diana Ayoub from Sh8peshifters and their Think Visual Morning Meetups community in June. SydDT is a friendly environment for people to practice their live graphic recording skills.
Thanks to our official graphic recorders who’ve done this in front of the audience live… Lily Tha, Jomar Mandingiado, Pradeep Gulur, Erez Nusem, and Alan Chen.
And a shout out and thanks to the group that’s been forming and steadily growing at each meetup as sketchnote corner… Ben Crothers, Morteza Pourmohamadi, Rianna Mo, Injila Iqbal, Ewan Hall, and everyone else. I love seeing your different styles and what you capture in your sketchnotes.
Thanks to the team
A huge thanks to the rest of the SydDT crew who I get to do this with… Kylie Mageropoulos, Kate Linton, Lucas Mara, and Zoe Gibson before she moved overseas. And the Design Connection collective we collaborate with for our design megameetup series… Kevin Wilkins, Sylvia Luk, and Lydia Bradshaw from CCX, Adam Faulkner from EUX, Susan Wolfe, and Vera Chan.
Find out more about SydDT, how to get involved, and check out photos and videos from our events.
We’ll kickoff 2025 on Thursday, 13 February with SydDT #108: Visual Thinking with Alan Chen & Diana Ayoub from Sh8peshifters… brought to you by Thoughtworks, Sh8peshifters, and Dynamic4. Grab your ticket!
Meetup Announcement
Thursday, 28 November 2024 @ 6pm. Atlassian, Sydney
For our 16th and final SydDT for 2024, we’ll be reflecting on and celebrating the year that’s been. This will be a very interactive session with a focus on spending time with each other. A good chance to reconnect with the regulars in the community and welcome plenty of new people. New friends and old.
We’re doing this one as Design Connection #4… another in our design megameetup series with our friends from the CCX and EUX meetups. This continues our tradition of EOY megameetups since 2018.
Come join us for some fun conversations with interesting people in and around the design community. This will sell out fast… be quick 😃
Design Connection
Design Connection #4 is another in our design megameetup series.
Design Connection is a collective of three Sydney design meetups… Ben Pecotich from Sydney Design Thinking (SydDT), Adam Faulkner from Enterprise UX (EUX), and Kevin Wilkins from Creative Customer Experience (CCX), with Susan Wolfe and Vera Chan being the backbone of Design Connection 😃
