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Hi folksCame across this...you might find it interesting (if you don't know it already...)iLabs: Community, Connection and a Culture of Innovation: a conversation with InSTEDD’s CTO Eduardo Jezierski…See More

It is with great pleasure to announce that Sarah Drummond, co-founder of Snook will be coming to Melbourne to host a series of exciting events at the new design research building at RMIT, the Design Hub!  Talk: Designing for social innovationSarah Drummond is the Co-founder and Director of Service Design Social Innovation outfit Snook, based in Scotland, UK. Her talk will focus on public realm service design and Snook's approach to designing…See More

Half a day workshop on innovating the city @ The Design HubFollowing her talk on Monday, 18th Feb, Sarah will be facilitating a service design workshop to examine some of the problems experienced by people living in the City of Melbourne.  Sarah will be setting a 'problem' for the participants to consider and will introduce discovery techniques and ten moves in prototyping. This is one part of a series of on-going workshops that will continue throughout the year, facilitated by SDNM/DESIS…See More

Hi EveryoneJust wanted to let SDN folk know that UX Melbourne is having it's end-of-year party at Horse Bazaar next Tuesday 11 December, 6pm. We have a special speaker, Chris Noessel, MD at Cooper. Chris will be talking about lessons we can learn from interaction design in Science Fiction! It's a lot of fun, head over to uxmelbourne.org for details.See More

Hi EveryoneJust wanted to let SDN folk know that UX Melbourne is having it's end-of-year party at Horse Bazaar next Tuesday 11 December, 6pm. We have a special speaker, Chris Noessel, MD at Cooper. Chris will be talking about lessons we can learn from interaction design in Science Fiction! It's a lot of fun, head over to uxmelbourne.org for details.See More

We have the great pleasure in hosting Steve Portigal from Portigal Consulting!How can you broaden your sphere of influence within the field of human-computer interaction?  You can start by building your muscles!  Steve will take a look at some fundamental skills that underlie the creation and launch of innovative goods and services. He will discuss the personal skills that he considers to be “the muscles of innovators” and the ways you can build these important muscles, including noticing,…See More