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I loved doing this interview with Forbes. Thanks for the great conversation, Steve McDowell 🙌🏽 https://lnkd.in/gvShV2Wn We’re excited about…
I loved doing this interview with Forbes. Thanks for the great conversation, Steve McDowell 🙌🏽 https://lnkd.in/gvShV2Wn We’re excited about…
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I saw this post from Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph and had a good chuckle. It reminds me of my own not-so-linear path: Before becoming an…
I saw this post from Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph and had a good chuckle. It reminds me of my own not-so-linear path: Before becoming an…
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Experience & Education
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Atlassian
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Speaker
Various
- Present 8 years
Science and Technology
Speaking about design at conferences & events around Australia.
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Upcoming Events:
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Fintech Design Summit 2021 (Global)
Title: Deciphering complex financial concepts through design
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Recent Events:
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Ladies That UX — May 2020
Panel Discussion
Title: Teamwork at a distance
Web Directions Summit 2019 (Sydney)
Title: The Pragmatic Product…Speaking about design at conferences & events around Australia.
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Upcoming Events:
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Fintech Design Summit 2021 (Global)
Title: Deciphering complex financial concepts through design
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Recent Events:
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Ladies That UX — May 2020
Panel Discussion
Title: Teamwork at a distance
Web Directions Summit 2019 (Sydney)
Title: The Pragmatic Product Designer
(http://www.webdirections.org/wds/speakers/laura-van-doore.php)
InVision Design Exchange 2019 (Sydney)
Title: Building a Compelling Business Case for a Design System
Web Directions Summit 2018 (Sydney)
Title: Building a Compelling Business Case for a Design System
UI & Visual Design Brisbane — June 2018
Title: Building a Scalable Design System with Sketch
Ladies That UX — May 2018
Panel Discussion
Title: Usability Testing: The Impact of Users Feedback
Managing Design 2018 (Sydney)
May 2018
Title: Forging a Rock Solid Design Discipline
EnterpriseUX — March 2018
Panel Discussion
Title: Enterprise UX trends for 2018
Managing Design 2017 (Melbourne)
May 2017
Title: The Highs & Lows of Managing Design Systems
EnterpriseUX — March 2017
Title: Design Systems for Enterprise
JDPx — June 2016
Panel Discussion
Title: UX vs UI vs Digital Design -
UX Designer
Random Hacks of Kindness
- Present 8 years
Science and Technology
RHoK is a global hackathon that takes place twice a year. It was started in 2009 by Google, NASA, Yahoo!, Microsoft and the World Bank, and since then RHoK has been bringing together thousands of people around the world to create open source solutions that can save lives and alleviate suffering.
RHoK Brisbane events are aimed at encouraging participants to develop solutions that can be used, in particular, to help people in the developing world including Africa, Haiti and Australia. -
Designer & Developer
Forget Me Not Childrens Home
- 6 years
Poverty Alleviation
My relationship with Forget Me Not Children’s Home began in 2009 when I redesigned & developed the organisation’s website. Since then, we have subsequently launched an additional 2 websites and undertaken a massive rebranding project.
• Design, development and maintenance of brands websites
• Design of all advertising and corporate marketing materials
• Development and distribution of eDMs & Analysis of website SEO & social presence
• Technologies used: HTML, CSS…My relationship with Forget Me Not Children’s Home began in 2009 when I redesigned & developed the organisation’s website. Since then, we have subsequently launched an additional 2 websites and undertaken a massive rebranding project.
• Design, development and maintenance of brands websites
• Design of all advertising and corporate marketing materials
• Development and distribution of eDMs & Analysis of website SEO & social presence
• Technologies used: HTML, CSS, PHP, Javascript, Photoshop, WordPress, Coda, InDesign, Illustrator
Publications
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Asking forgiveness, not permission
Prototypr.io / Medium
See publicationAn article exploring the advantages of going rogue in the slow world of enterprise UX.
Politics. ‘Priorities’. Bureaucracy. Red tape.
Coming from a background of much smaller proportions, there’s nothing that quite prepares you for that first daunting step you take into the enterprise design & UX space... -
5 UX lessons from the climbing wall
Prototypr.io / Medium
See publicationAn article exploring the UX (and life) lessons I’ve learnt from my new rock climbing hobby. There's always interesting lessons to learn & draw parallels from throughout life.
Patents
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Fathom Forecasting
Filed AU 2021374230
See patentA system for configuring, calculating and graphically representing forecast data
Honors & Awards
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Australian Innovation Merit - QLD Government MyAccount
Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA)
The AIIA awards highlight the best in technology and recognise how technology has a positive impact on people - through their work, their lives and through the provision of services.
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Best On Ground — December 2015
Flight Centre Digital Experience
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Best On Ground — January 2015
Flight Centre Digital Experience
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Global Award Winner — 2015
Flight Centre Digital Experience
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Best on Ground — December 2014
Flight Centre Digital Experience
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AWA Ecommerce Award — Honorable Mention
Australian Web Awards
www.foliobooks.com.au
Languages
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English
Native or bilingual proficiency
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Italian
Elementary proficiency
Organizations
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QUT Web Meetup
Co-Organiser
The QUT Web Meetup is a group of passionate Web Designers & Developers who meet each fortnight to discuss the changing landscape of Web.
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