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Design at Macquarie | Sydney Meetup Our design teams and experts partnered with Sydney Design Thinking to host the annual State of Design Nation event in our new event space, ILUMINA.   Amongst a night of celebration and reflection, I was reminded of how fortunate I am to get to design and lead passionate designers for a living 🙏 It’s been an incredible journey over the last 12 months of connecting and amplifying our Design discipline across Macquarie and beyond and volunteering our skills to help uplift those in our local communities through our involvement with ABCN (Australian Business Community Network), SEND (Social Enterprises Needing Development) and PCYC (Police Citizens Youth Club).   The highlight of the night came from our two Australian Good Design Award judges – Ben Crothers and Nila Rezaei – who urged the room to reflect on what it means to Design with Impact and shared their highlights from this year’s entries ranging across a symphony of criteria, from the Captivating and Critical to the Cheeky and Curious. Each entry reminded us of the possibility of making positive, social impact through good design and left us walking away inspired and motivated. Thank you, Ben and Nila.   I wanted to extend my gratitude to Ben Pecotich from Dynamic4 for inviting us to partake in this annual SydDT tradition, Alan Chen and Diana Ayoub from Sh8peshifters for their awesome graphic recording of the night (not all because they made me look handsome), and my amazing team – Jennifer Murphy, Kristine Souksamrane and Jenny Han for organising this electrifying and memorable event. Massive thank you to everyone who attended and reached out afterwards.   If you missed it or wish to relive the magic, you can find the video link here https://lnkd.in/gck5NzHj   P.S. If your interest was piqued by our exciting initiatives and Design at Macquarie journey, keep your eyes peeled for a Design Blog coming in the next few months where I will be going into more depth. 

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We celebrated all things design and reflected on the state of the design nation at Sydney Design Thinking (SydDT) #106 last Wednesday night. Ben Crothers and Nila Rezaei shared their highlights, observations, and insights on what they saw as a couple of the judges for this year’s Good Design Awards and some of the trends. This has been an annual SydDT tradition since 2018 and it’s always a crowd favourite. This one was even bigger than usual with 220 people turning up for the fun. A massive thanks to Ben and Nila for their great talk. I had so many people telling me how they loved their content, insights, and presentation styles. I loved their perspectives and emphasis on how we can just do good design to help create positive impacts. In all of our work. To close things out I reminded the audience that every design and business decision we make gets us closer to the world we want to see. Or not. Let’s do good design. 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. https://lnkd.in/gck5NzHj This event was brought to you by Design at Macquarie Group, Sh8peshifters, and Dynamic4. Design at Macquarie hosted us in the new and very impressive ILUMINA space. Steve Packham, the Chief Design Officer of Macquarie’s Corporate Operations Group shared a bit about how they’ve been investing in design and been building their design practice and community over the past year. It was great collaborating with Design at Macquarie for this event. Thanks to Jenny Han, Jennifer Murphy, Kristine Souksamrane, and Steve for all the work on the Macquarie side to bring it together… to Kelvin Weng for taking photos, Lucy Zhao and the rest of the volunteers… and the AV guys for making everything run so smooth. The graphic recording this month was done by Alan Chen and the video includes an impressive timelapse. This initiative is a collaboration with Alan and Diana Ayoub from Sh8peshifters and their Think Visual/Sh8peshifters Morning Meetups community. SydDT is a friendly environment for people to practice their live graphic recording skills. It’s also awesome seeing the growing number of people clustering at our meetups to sketchnote together. This was also Design Connection #3… another in our design megameetup series – a collaboration with Kevin Wilkins, Sylvia Luk, and Lydia Bradshaw from CCX, Adam Faulkner from EUX, Susan Wolfe, and Verawaty Chan. And of course the rest of the SydDT crew Kylie Mageropoulos, Kate Linton, and Lucas Mara. Our next meetup is SydDT #107/Design Connection #4: 2024 Reflection & Celebration on Thursday, 28 November… and brought to you by Atlassian and Dynamic4. Grab your ticket before it sells out! https://lnkd.in/gzyrneaN #PhotoMeanderings #EventMeanderings #SydDT #designthinking #innovation #leadership #wellbeing #regen #purpose #design #learning #community #sydney #meetup  

Looking forward to returning to Canberra on Wednesday 23rd October to give a talk about our book "Designing Tomorrow – Strategic Design Tactics to Change Your Practice, Organisation & Planetary Impact", this time for the Enterprise User Experience (EUX) Meetup. Thank you to Adam Faulkner and Susan Hansen for the invitation! My co-author Steve Baty unfortunately has another commitment, so I will be doing this talk solo. But I'll still be bringing some books to give out to some lucky winners. #EUXCBR #designingtomorrow BIS Publishers Harm Kessel, van Sh8peshifters Alan Chen Diana Ayoub

Our next #ThinkVisualMeetup is next Wednesday 9th of October - 8 am. Come join us!

Sketchnoting is a great thinking tool that allows us to remember more, make connections and be creative. For kids, it's an a powerful medium that helps them learn and opens up countless possibilities. If you've got kids and are around Sydney these school holidays, would you sign them up to learn how to leverage this skill? #kidsworkshops #schoolholiday #visualthinking #visuallearners #creativity

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Next Wednesday Sh8peshifters has the pleasure of hosting Christopher Ellis and Wendy San from EY Future Friendly! The two of them will be talking about the role that visual thinking plays in product design - from prototyping to polished designs. Join us for a creative boost to your morning routine. We’ve got breakfast, coffee, visual exercises and a 30 minute presentation from visual thinkers. Tickets are free, but spots are limited so book your tickets today! https://lnkd.in/gK4Bv6_s Diana Ayoub, Alan Chen #visualthinking #visualmeetup #thinkvisual #creativity

Our June morning meetup was filled with creative energy and great conversation - thanks for coming everyone! See you at the next one :) #sydneycreativemeetups #visualthinkingforbusiness