Schedule

Design Research 2021 will run from Wednesday 17 March to Friday 19 March 2021.

Conference presentations will run in the mornings from Wednesday to Friday, and workshops will run in the afternoons of Wednesday and Thursday.

Tickets to the conference presentations and workshops are sold separately and are available now. 

All times are in AEDT. 

Day 1 - Wednesday March 17

Time: Presenter: Presentation / Workshop / Activity :
8:55 am

DAY 1 COMMENCES

   

Introduction & Welcome to Country

9:00 am Indi Young

Opening Keynote - People, Purposes, Patterns & Problem Space

10:00 am Dalia El-Shimy

So You’ve Earned a Seat at the Table. What’s Next?

10:20 am Kate Hardgrave

Finding the Sweet Spot: Leveraging Insights to Shape Strategic Direction

10: 40 am

MORNING BREAK - Sponsored by Visual Academy

10:55 am Stephen Cox

Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks: Moving from Experience Design Research to Product Design Research.   

11:15 am Vivienne Dinh & Kimberly Nguyen Don

Embracing Diversity in Research

12:00 pm Olivia Kirk & Belinda Tobias

Exploring Health Sector Complexity through Design Research

12:20 pm Caylie Panuccio

Sociolinguistics, Design Research, and You: How to Languate Gooder

12:40 pm Ben Kraal

Maths for Design Researchers

1:15 pm

END OF DAY 1 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

1:30 pm

DAY 1 WORKSHOPS COMMENCE

1:30 - 6:00 pm Justin Cheong & Harriet McDougall      

Visual Thinking for Design Researchers presented by Visual Academy

 

END OF DAY 1                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

Day 2 - Thursday March 18

Time: Presenter: Presentation / Workshop / Activity:                  

8:55 am

DAY 2 COMMENCES
9:00 am Lauren Isaacson

Insights from Anywhere - A guide and options for doing remote research

9:20 am Alex Crook

Reimagining ethnography during COVID with adults, kids and cars

9:40 am Stephanie Lamont

Remote Research for Business Engagement

10:00 am Alana Wade & Serena Lai

Gloves in the time of Corona - Guerrilla Testing in a Pandemic

10:20 am Laura Ryan

The Role of the Design Researcher in Creating a Wellbeing Economy

10:40 am

MORNING BREAK - Sponsored by UsabilityHub

10:55 am Jax Wechsler

Trauma-Informed Design Research

11:40 am Styliana Sarris

Reporting your User Research Findings like a Psychologist

12:00 pm Brooke Jamieson

The Persuasion Equation | how to effectively communicate results to people who don’t want to listen                                                                   

12:20 pm Paul Merrel, Rebecca Hendry, Sean Rom and Peta Marks

The one-two punch: Context and co-design

12:45 pm

END OF DAY 2 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

1:00 pm

DAY 2 WORKSHOPS COMMENCE

1:00 - 5:00 pm Angela Liu

Quant/Qual/Quant presented by Blueegg

 

END OF DAY 2

Day 3 - Friday March 19

Time: Presenter: Presentation / Workshop / Activity:
8:55 am

DAY 3 COMMENCES

9:00 am Vidhika Bansal                                         

Pensieves & Crystal Balls: Mitigating Bias When Investigating Past Behavior and Future Intent

9:45 am Michael Bloom

What They Say vs What They Do

10:30 am

Katrina Ryl & Roland Wimbush Get your hands dirty: Gaining the trust of hard to reach users
11:15 am

MORNING BREAK - Sponsored by Visual Academy

11:30 am Kim Chatterjee

How To Design Your Own “Empathy Walk” (and make your stakeholders live your research findings)

11:50 am Saher Zafar

Designing a National Behaviour Change Campaign for Rural Cambodia

12:10 pm Jess Nichols

Creating Impact through the Research Journey

12:55 pm Lucy Denton

A Stakeholders Point of View on Engaging in Research

1:40 pm Ruth Ellison & Michelle Pickrell

A Framework for Creating Actionable Insights

2:00 pm

END OF DAY 3