At SydDT #130, Pamela Pilawa and Wai Yin Vicente Kwok explore the hidden performance skills of great designers – presence, improvisation, atmosphere, and facilitating human interaction.
We’ll be celebrating all things design and reflecting on the state of the design nation at Sydney Design Thinking #132 with Ben Crothers and Min Kong sharing their reflections as a couple of the judges for the 2026 Good Design Awards.
For SydDT #129, we’re having some casual community drinks. No formalities or talks, just a good chance to connect with the community. New friends and old.
At SydDT #128, Dr Leanne Sobel, Jaimes Nel, Lize Wordsworth, Paul Merrell, and Dr Laura Kostanski shared their perspectives on when design becomes strategic – and how designers can turn intent into meaningful change.
At SydDT #127 for our 11th birthday event, Riley Coleman, Kristin de la Fuente, Alex Zinoviev, and Tarra van Amerongen explored how to keep people, customers, judgement, creativity, and trust at the centre as AI becomes part of more of what we design and do.
SydDT turns 11 today – a community of 10,000+ people exploring design, innovation, and solving problems that matter. Thanks to the SydDT members, speakers, graphic recorders, sponsors, collaborators, and organisers.
We celebrated Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) at SydDT #126 in collaboration with Remarkable and Atlassian and a great lineup of speakers working directly on inclusive and accessible solutions.
We were lucky to have Gordon Burnett talking about prototyping at the right level of fidelity to answer the right questions at the right time at Sydney Design Thinking (SydDT) #125.
We were lucky to have Emma Carter on elevating design inside organisations, Catherine Fitzpatrick on redesigning products for safety, and a panel led by Kate Ingram exploring this year’s IWD theme: Balance the Scales at SydDT #124.
We were lucky to have Sarah Stokes and Shari Elle lead us through an interactive session on moving from conflict to co-creation at SydDT #123 on Thursday night. How to structure hard conversations with nonviolent communication.
For our 15th and final SydDT for 2025, we reflected on and celebrated the year that’s been. We did this one as Design Connection #6.
We were lucky to have Ben Crothers, Nila Rezaei, and Brandon Gien share their observations on that state of design at SydDT #121… and this year we went beyond the state of the design nation in Australia by adding reflections on the recent World Design Congress in London and the Seoul Design Award.
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