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The limits of good design

Good design doesn’t make our world better. We need to elevate our practice to strategically drive positive change in organisations.

Mar 3

A drawing of a person in front of what looks like a rising or setting sun with text in two columns. The first column is titled designing for the now, the second designing for the long now. Each column has opposing entries, which are: short-term thinking — long-term thinking, business-driven — value driven, shareholder focus — future generations focus, colonised — decolonised, single worldview — pluriveral view, human-centred — life-centred.

Mar 3

Car or robot? Unlocking the future of autonomous vehicles

How driverless cars interact with pedestrians will be key to to ensuring their safe adoption in future robotic cities

Sep 23, 2023

A futuristic small white car with a circular door that is transparent, looking like it’s made out of glass with two seats inside.

Sep 23, 2023

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Non-human personas in practice

How IBM considered frogs as a non-human stakeholder in the design of a citizen science app.

Feb 12, 2023

A paper origami frog made of white and green checked back sitting on a piece of green paper with a white strip on one side against a light blue background.

Feb 12, 2023

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The mechanics of non-human personas

How designers can capture the voices that represent non-human living beings.

Jun 6, 2022

Paper origami/cut-outs showing a blue whale emerging out of a wave that contains a number of smaller white whales.

Jun 6, 2022

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The case for using non-human personas in design

Why it is time to move beyond just designing for humans.

Feb 26, 2023

A photo of two pink flamingo paper origamis.

Feb 26, 2023

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To be creative we need to be comfortable with the limits of our knowledge

By learning new things, our world grows. This can be scary. But accepting the limits of our knowledge allows us to create new patterns.

Nov 10, 2021

The image shows the book cover of Murakami’s book Dance Dance Dance, which features three white skeletons on a green background with arrows around them that indicate movement.

Nov 10, 2021

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The hidden impact of UX design on climate change

We need to stop lying to ourselves. Designing a piece of software and not considering the impact this has on our Earth’s biosphere is like…

Aug 29, 2021

An airplane crossing a dark sky painting two white trails behind it.

Aug 29, 2021

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Design at Sydney

New Ways of Seeing Light: Media Architecture and Digital Placemaking

Light — as we know it — is really so much more than a means to providing clearer vision for our day-to-day activities.

Mar 14, 2021

New Ways of Seeing Light: Media Architecture and Digital Placemaking

Mar 14, 2021

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Design at Sydney

No Animals were Harmed in the Making of this Conference

Some thoughts on how Covid-19 changed our vision for the 32nd Australian conference on computer-human interaction.

Dec 13, 2020

No Animals were Harmed in the Making of this Conference

Dec 13, 2020

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How to Deal with Uncertainty When Designing new Products and Businesses

Why uncertainty can kill a project and a simple strategy for addressing uncertainty when designing products or businesses.

Jul 26, 2020

How to Deal with Uncertainty When Designing new Products and Businesses

Jul 26, 2020

Martin Tomitsch

Martin Tomitsch

Design academic and Head of Transdisciplinary School at the University of Technology Sydney, author of "Designing Tomorrow" and “Design Think Make Break Repeat”

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