Author: Rodney Zandbergs
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Riding the Waves of Digital Change
One thing we should realise by now is that change is a constant. Working in digital design, this provides both challenge and adventure. Design Careers: Timeline or Trendline? Sometimes I wonder: is my career a timeline or a trendline? In the early 2000s, we were swept up in the dot-com boom. By 2007, the iPhone…
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Establishing In-house Design Teams
JOBSTREET, KUALA LUMPUR | Design leaders from SEEK taking part in a MeetUp panel discussion at JobStreet HQ in Kuala Lumpur
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Mind the Design Gap: Leading With Influence
DESIGN MEETUP, MELBOURNE | Realising that your design leadership is all about influence and not authority can set you on a better path. Article based on a design MeetUp talk given in 2023 to the in-house product design team at NBN Australia. Let me start with a simple question: What are your current design challenges? I…
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Bridging the Design and Technology Divide
LIFERAY FORUM, SYDNEY | Whilst designing transformational experiences is hard, shepherding your solution all the way through to delivery is even harder.
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When it Feels Like a Design Team of Zero
EDUTECH CONFERENCE, SYDNEY. Large organisations often have big plans for their digital transformations, but the resources don’t always line up. What can a minimalist design team do about it? Perhaps the first things for business leaders to do is understand some wisdom from Forbes. In 2011 they pointed out that your organization is a software…
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Getting started in UX
RMIT UNIVERSITY, MELBOURNE. Speaking to undergraduate design students about working in the UX field. Transcript coming soon
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The Journey Towards Lean UX
CONFERENCE, MELBOURNE. The higher education sector offers a breadth of interesting UX challenges to solve, but resources are limited. Lean UX methods help teams stay sane and productive. Originally presented at the UX in Higher Education Conference 2017, which included talks from Alistair Simpson (Atlassian), Dan Martin Smith (Westpac) and UX design leaders from across…
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Running in-house UX research
User experience or usability testing has a bad rap with in-house digital teams. It has a reputation as being hard and time consuming and therefore the domain of specialist agencies.