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IxDA Sydney Podcast13 - Mentoring Stories | Final thoughts on the IxDA Mentoring ProgramHello and welcome to the final episode of this series, The Season Finale! Mentoring stories.
In this episode, Molly, Vinita and Sam are joined by a whole host of mentors to discuss their personal experiences during the IxDA mentoring program. We'll dig into what they found surprising, the differences of mentoring within the workplace to externally, and key resources they hang their hat on when mentoring.
Segment 1: - 01:00
Vee Mercado: Lead Designer @ WooliesX
Fabiana Eisenmann: Product Designer @ Playvox
Segment 2: - 15:14
Vivid Savitri: Head of UX @ Breville
Sam Dawson: UX Designer @ Macquarie Bank
U...
2022-07-0648 min
IxDA Sydney Podcast12 - Meera Pankhania | Designing within the public sectorIn this episode, Vinita and Molly are talking to Meera Pankhania. Their conversation focuses around the government and civic design space.
Meera is a design leader with a career spanning over 17 years in the private, not-for-profit and public sectors across the UK and Australia. After several years in the Australian Public Service, Meera co-founded Propel Design; a strategic research, design and delivery consultancy that uses an evidence-based approach to help co-create strategies and solutions that are human-centred. With this breadth and depth of experience, Meera strives to deliver impactful, pragmatic outcomes while building capability and leading teams t...
2022-06-1452 min
IxDA Sydney Podcast11 - A chance to reflectYou may have noticed that Wednesday has been and gone without a podcast release? Not to fear! We'll be back in a couple of weeks to finish off the first season of the IxDA MP Podcast.
2022-05-1900 min
IxDA Sydney Podcast10 - David Meier | Design IS BusinessIn this episode, Sam and Vinita are talking to David Meier. Their conversation dives into how design IS Business and why understanding your subject matter inside out is the first step to getting a seat at the leadership table.
David’s career foundations were established through graphic design and digital advertising. It wasn’t until working within the startup space when David got a deep understanding of the fundamentals of UX. In the last four years David has transitioned into design leadership positions at Real estate giant, Domain. And later at Fintech disrupters, Zip and now Finder. David...
2022-05-1136 min
IxDA Sydney Podcast09 - Marla Mitelman | Building & leading high performing design teamsIn this episode, Sam and Molly are talking to Marla Mitelman about how she has built and lead high performing design teams. Marla is a design leader and a hands on UX designer for over 20 years. She's passionate about the design of useful, usable and purposeful experiences for innovative products and services. Since 2020, she's been working both as a freelance design consultant through Mitelman Webb, and has been employed permanently by organisations such as BCG, digital ventures, and PwC, to lead their experience and strategic design teams.
We dive into the following themes:
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2022-05-0443 min
IxDA Sydney Podcast08 - Michael Wong (Mizko) | The power of portfoliosIn this episode, Sam and Molly are talking to Michael Wong AKA Mizko, about how the strength of your portfolio can set you up for success within your design career. Mizko is a founder, educator and product/UX/UI Designer at heart. He has spent the last 15 years strategising and designing for high-growth companies that have raised a total of $500M. His passion lies at the intersection of business, design and technology and today runs an online educational platform, Designership with over 3,500 alumni.
We dive into the following themes:
Learn Mizko's unconventional path into UX design a...
2022-04-2747 min
IxDA Sydney Podcast07 - Dear Vinita | Questions from the mailbagIn this episode, Molly, Sam & Vinita are taking your mentoring questions, where dive into the following themes:
How do I keep cadence with the mentor/mentee relationship?
Learning about psychology within UX and how to implement it.
What happens when the program comes to an end.
If you want to learn more about IxDA Sydney's events and mentorship programs, please visit:
www.ixdasydney.org/mentoring
2022-04-2023 min
IxDA Sydney Podcast06 - Erin Turner | The power of constructive feedbackIn this episode, Molly and Vinita are talking to Erin Turner about the power of feedback, and when the right rituals are put in place, it can really drive the feedback culture of that organisation. Erin is a UX leader and organisational psychologist with over 15 years experience. Erin started her career consulting in UX research and design across a range of industries before moving client side to set up and lead various UX and service design teams. Erin passion is in delivering impactful and purposeful design for human centered and empathetic innovation, and helping practitioners build confidence and skill...
2022-04-1343 min
IxDA Sydney Podcast05 - Paul Blake | How to beat your inner imposter syndromeIn this episode, Sam and Vinita are talking to design leader and top-rated ADPlist mentor, Paul Blake. With over 25 years of industry experience, Paul is a journalist by training, in 1995 he put away his typewriter to embrace design. He has worked internationally in a range of corporate government and agency environments. He made it in strategic and service design and is an enthusiastic mentor for younger designers. And ever curious traveler music fan and craft beer nerd.
We dive into the following themes:
Why imposter syndrome is rife within the design industry.
Ways to approach overcoming...
2022-04-0648 min
IxDA Sydney Podcast04 - Mags Hanley | Analyse, structure and plan your design careerIn this episode, Vinita and Molly, we are talking to Mags Hanley about why it's important to think beyond your role as a designer, why you should be taking notice of aspects adjacent to our role like data, and why learning about other people's business needs to improve your sphere of influence. Mags is a career and Information Architect. She works with designers at all stages of their careers, help them identify the path to go on, be more effective at work and support them in leading their design teams.
Her recently published career architecture, analyse structure a...
2022-03-3054 min
IxDA Sydney Podcast03 - Tim Yeo | Design leadership for introvertsIn this episode, Molly and Vinita are talking to Tim Yeo. Tim coaches introverts to have impact and influence without pretending to be extroverts at The Quiet Achiever. He is currently Design Director @IBM, helping Enterprise clients transform their businesses with enterprise scale at startup speed.
In IBM, Tim focuses on DesignOps for the Customer Transformation design practice in Australia.Previously, Tim was the first UX and Design leader at fintech startups @Finder, @OFX and @Prospa where he hired, established and scaled design teams from scratch. Best known for saying complex things simply. He's also a public s...
2022-03-2345 min
IxDA Sydney Podcast02 - Chris Naylor | Why building on your design craft is importantIn this episode, Molly and Sam are chatting with Chris Naylor. Their conversation dives into how to develop people skills, and about how to step outside being just a designer to bring more to your craft. They go into some tactical methods on how designers can build up their commercial skills, while still balancing flow, speed and craft.
We dive into the following themes:
Building on your design craft and understanding business drivers.
Understanding the commercials behind your design decisions.
Putting your design theories into practice.
Chris is the Regional Design Practice Director for Accenture Int...
2022-03-1654 min
IxDA Sydney Podcast01 - Molly, Sam & Vinita | An introduction to mentoringHello, and welcome to the introductory episode of The IxDA Sydney MP pod. We'll be introducing your hosts for the next 12 weeks, Vinita, Molly and Sam, while also taking you through how to best set up for success with the IxDA Sydney mentoring program.
Every Wednesday, we will be bringing you new insight from design doers and thinkers from across Australia. There's a lot of giggling in this episode since we have no guests, so hang on for some fodder and great design talk!
Find out more about the IxDA Sydney Mentoring Program here:
2022-03-0825 min
IxDA Sydney PodcastIxDA Sydney Pod...something BIG is coming!In March 2022, IxDA Sydney will be launching a podcast to support mentoring conversations from a diverse group of design thinkers and doers around Sydney and Australia. These conversations aspire to spark new perspectives, problem solving and insight into other design teams.
Molly, Sam and Vinita have interviewed a handful already and will be adding to them over the year. These will be available soon, both in your usual Podcast-subscribing services as well as through the IxDASyd website.
2022-02-0401 min
The Iowa Idea Podcast102. Janna DeVylder & Steve BatyThe Iowa Idea: Janna DeVylder & Steve Baty
“There’s no hero in solving complex challenges.”
In this episode Iowa Idea Podcast, I’m joined by Janna DeVylder and Steve Baty of Meld Studios, an award-winning service design consultancy in Australia. Janna, who grew up in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and graduated from The University of Iowa, is a Founder, Director and Principal Designer at Meld. Steve, one of Meld’s co-founders, is a highly experienced and seasoned leader in the design space. Both Steve and Janna have served in leadership roles for the IxDA, the international Interactio...
2021-08-0953 min
Australian Design RadioEP100 Katja Forbes on Strength and GumptionIn this episode, we spoke with Katja Forbes Managing Director of Designit.
Katja is the Managing Director of Designit ANZ, Director, she’s on the IxDA global board, one of 100 women of influence and in the top 10 female entrepreneurs in Australia. She's a specialist in research & experience design with the qualifications that go with it, she's an educator, mentor, coach, who gets genuinely excited when talking about being in 'the field' doing research and understanding how humans interact with technology.
We spoke about the diverse career paths people take to get into user experience design and related fields, how tough an...
2019-04-0550 min
This is HCD – Human-Centered Design, UX & Service Design Thinking PodcastFrank Long 'Designing a Design Culture to empower richer social outcomes'If you like our content, be sure to sign up to our weekly The Design Compass Newsletter. Design Smarter. Lead Better.Interested in training for your organisation with This is HCD? Let's speak by booking a 15-minute call.Hello and welcome to another episode of this is HCD. My name is Gerry scullion and I'm a service design principal based in Ireland. In this episode, we caught up with Frank Long, one of Ireland's UX forefathers. Frank mentored me way back in the nineties and shortly after he began working in the u...
2018-10-0941 min
Bringing Design CloserFrank Long 'Designing a Design Culture to empower richer social outcomes'Hello and welcome to another episode of this is HCD. My name is Gerry scullion and I'm a service design principal based in Ireland. In this episode, we caught up with Frank Long, one of Ireland's UX forefathers. Frank mentored me way back in the nineties and shortly after he began working in the usability and accessibility space for Frontend, one of Europe's oldest UX consultancies. A number of years ago when I was living in Sydney, I began to see Frontend winning awards, left right and center, such as at the iXDA awards in America, then again in...
2018-10-0941 min
Bringing Design Closer with Gerry ScullionFrank Long 'Designing a Design Culture to empower richer social outcomes'Hello and welcome to another episode of this is HCD. My name is Gerry scullion and I'm a service design principal based in Ireland. In this episode, we caught up with Frank Long, one of Ireland's UX forefathers. Frank mentored me way back in the nineties and shortly after he began working in the usability and accessibility space for Frontend, one of Europe's oldest UX consultancies. A number of years ago when I was living in Sydney, I began to see Frontend winning awards, left right and center, such as at the iXDA awards in America, then again in...
2018-10-0942 min
Bringing Design Closer with Gerry ScullionAnthony Quinn 'Dealing with career challenges, and increasing your influence as a designer in your organisation'
We caught up with Anthony Quinn recently and had a fascinating conversation.
For anyone who has seen Anthony speak at design, conferences will know what a strong design thinker he is. We chat about how he got into design, how motivations and also took questions relating to the topics of career challenges from people working in the industry, and also how to increase your influence in an organisation.
This is HCD is brought to you by Humana Design
Anthony Quinn, Principal at Dynamic4.com
Anthony Quinn, Principal, Dynamic4 Like you, Anthony...
2017-05-1944 min
Bringing Design CloserAnthony Quinn 'Dealing with career challenges, and increasing your influence as a designer in your organisation'We caught up with Anthony Quinn recently and had a fascinating conversation.
For anyone who has seen Anthony speak at design, conferences will know what a strong design thinker he is. We chat about how he got into design, how motivations and also took questions relating to the topics of career challenges from people working in the industry, and also how to increase your influence in an organisation.
This is HCD is brought to you by Humana Design
Anthony Quinn, Principal at Dynamic4.com
Anthony Quinn, Principal, Dynamic4 Like you, Anthony...
2017-05-1943 min