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Meld Design Salon: Making Transport Human-Centred

September 18, 2018 In Events, Human centred design Comments (0)

In the next Meld Design Salon, we’ll be talking all things transport. Jordana Blank from Transport for Victoria, and Andrew Kendall from Sydney Metro will offer their unique experiences and perspectives on the importance—and challenges—of implementing a Human Centred Design approach in the government transport...

Sydney Design Festival – submissions open

September 18, 2018 In Events Comments (0)

The program for next year's Sydney Design Festival is open for submissions. The theme this year is 'Accessing Design' – something that we are particularly interested in exploring. How can we design with audiences that are traditionally ignored (actively or passively)? How can design be used to balance...

Human-centred approaches to city making and planning

September 13, 2018 In Human centred design, Urban design Comments (0)

Here at Meld we are passionate about improving the everyday lives of people as they interact with the world around them. To do this we employ various methods related to human-centred design to better understand the impacts that environments and systems have on people, then work with...

Talking at Intersection in Prague

September 10, 2018 In Capability Building, Human centred design Comments (0)

Karina and I were delighted to share our experiences and thoughts around human-centred organisational transformation at the Intersection conference in Prague last week. The conference brought together executives, architects, designers, change managers and others with a shared interest in helping organisations become better versions of themselves. Our...

Designing human-centred organisational culture

September 5, 2018 In Capability Building, Human centred design, Organisation design Comments (0)

I have just published an article over at Medium based on the talk I gave at this year's UX Australia. The article captures my reflections on the role human-centred designers should be playing to help organisations become better versions of themselves. The talk is inspired by...

Human-centred organisations, organisational culture and customer experience

September 2, 2018 In Design, Organisation design Comments (0)

Iain spoke about the inter-relationship between organisational culture and customer experience at this year's UX Australia – and was interviewed about his talk and general experiences within the UX community...

Service design workshops (Canberra)

August 20, 2018 In Capability Building Comments (0)

We are delighted to announce that we'll be running our popular service design workshop series again in Canberra on 29th to 31st October. Please join us for one or all three days of theory, practice and fun around service design: Day One: Customer research and...

Leading human-centred design for organisational transformation workshop

June 15, 2018 In Capability Building Comments (0)

Building on last month's webinar on transforming organisations with design, we will be running a new one-day workshop on 'Leading human-centred design for organisational transformation' in Canberra and Sydney in July. The workshops build on our experience bringing a human-centred mindset to a range of public...

Meld Studios awarded Australia’s top Good Design award

May 18, 2018 In Design Comments (1)

[caption id="attachment_4903" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Credit: Good Design Awards[/caption] Meld Studios and Queensland Government’s One Stop Strategy and Implementation Office won the Good Design Award® of the Year for the Growing Human-Centred Design Across Queensland Government project. The winning project aims to embed human-centred design across Queensland Government...

How do I explain to my friends and family what we did to win three Good Design Awards?

May 18, 2018 In Design, Service design, What's been happening Comments (3)

[caption id="attachment_4897" align="alignright" width="741"] Photo credit: Good Design Awards[/caption] Me: "OMG, we won three design awards last night - including best in show!" My friend: "That's great, Ali! And what is it that you actually do again?" Ok, it's time to really break it down and shed some...