Penny Hagen
Penny is a Design Strategist with over 10 years experience in interactive technologies having designed or produced a range of online and interactive community projects in Australia and New Zealand. Penny is currently completing her PhD in participatory design methods for social technologies at the University of Technology, Sydney. Previously Penny worked as the Projects Director and Strategist at Digital Eskimo, driving their experimental design research program.
Penny applies a human-centred-design approach to all projects, leading clients through a collaborative and stakeholder focused scoping and discovery process. As a facilitator Penny leads the project team to a shared project vision, whilst providing creative and strategic insight. She combines hands on design experience with a knowledge of design research methods to develop stakeholder engagement programs for social change projects.
Penny works as a consultant, facilitator, and presenter running digital and communication strategy workshops and mentoring others in the use of collaborative design methods.