Design Research 2023 will take place from Tuesday, March 14 to Thursday, March 16.
The event is hosted live at the ACMI Melbourne and broadcast online via Zoom Webinar. Some attendees, speakers and sponsors will attend online while others will attend in person.
All conference ticket holders will have access to the entire two days and will be able to view all conference presentations - whether delivered online or in person - presented on March 15 and 16.
The webinar recording will be sent to all conference attendees post-event.
The event is closed-captioned. If you require additional accessibility assistance please get in touch.
More information on registration.
Day 1 - In-person workshops only. There is no online attendance available. Workshop tickets must be purchased to attend a workshop.
| Time: | Presenter: |
Activity: |
Delivery |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30 am |
DAY 1 COMMENCES |
In-person, ACMI Melbourne | |
| 8:30 am |
REGISTRATION OPENS - AM WORKSHOP |
In-person, ACMI Melbourne | |
| 9:00 am - 1:00 pm | Sarah Heimeier |
Workshop - Elevate your design Research |
In-person, ACMI Melbourne |
| 1:00 - 2:00 pm |
LUNCH |
In-person, ACMI Melbourne | |
| 1:00 pm |
REGISTRATION OPENS - PM WORKSHOP |
In-person, ACMI Melbourne | |
|
1:30 - 5:30 pm |
Briony Mackenzie and Fiona Smith | Workshop - Supercharge the impact of design with behaviour mapping | In-person, ACMI Melbourne |
| 5:30 pm |
END OF DAY 1 |
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Day 2 - Conference presentations, delivered in-person and online, all streamed online. Conference tickets need to be purchased to attend Day 2 & 3.
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Time: |
Presenter: | Activity: | Delivery: |
|---|---|---|---|
|
8:30 am |
DAY 2 COMMENCES | ||
| 8:30 am |
REGISTRATION OPENS |
In-person, ACMI Melbourne | |
| 8:45 am |
ZOOM WEBINAR OPENS |
Zoom Webinar | |
|
9:00 am - 9:10 am |
Opening Notes & Acknowledgement to Country | ||
|
9:10 am - 9:35 am |
Hossein Raspberry |
The good, the bad and the complex: appreciating complexity through frontline UXR |
Virtual |
|
9:40 am - 10:25 am |
Saloni Mhapsekar | Learning to listen, listening to learn | Virtual |
|
10:30 am - 11:00 am |
Morning Tea | ||
|
11:05 am - 11:50 am |
Sophie Goodman & Bec Purser | Bin Chickens, Beavers and Dingos - Re-situating Ethnography Beyond Humans | In-Person |
|
11:55 am - 12:25 pm |
Sarah Heimeier | Elevate your design research | In-Person |
|
12:30 pm - 12:50 pm |
Alex Crook | Exploring the aftermath of enforced behaviour change (from Covid-19) on younger people’s habits | In-Person |
|
12:55 pm - 2:00 pm |
Lunch | ||
| 2:05 pm - 2:35 pm | Laura Ryan & Brendan Reed | Design Research and the Evaluation Frontier | In-Person |
|
2:40 pm - 3:25 pm |
Michelle Ou | Let’s make design research more inclusive | In-Person |
|
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm |
Afternoon Tea | ||
|
4:10 pm - 4:55 pm |
Steve Baty | Organisational Tensions - important context to the customer journey | In-Person |
|
5:00 pm |
END OF DAY 2 | ||
Day 3 - Conference presentations, delivered in-person and online, all streamed online. Conference tickets need to be purchased to attend Day 2 & 3.
| Time: | Presenter: | Activity: | Delivery: |
|---|---|---|---|
|
8:30 am |
DAY 3 COMMENCES | In-person, ACMI Melbourne | |
|
8:30 am |
REGISTRATION OPENS | In-Person | |
|
8:30 am |
ZOOM WEBINAR OPENS | Zoom Webinar | |
|
9:00 am - 9:15 am |
Opening Notes & Welcome to Country | ||
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9:15 am - 10:00 am |
Debbie Levitt | Don't Democratize UX Research - And Governance For Those Doing It | Virtual |
|
10:05 am - 10:40 am |
Morning Tea | ||
|
10:45 am - 11:30 am |
Naomi Civins | More than a filing cabinet: building a flexible, useful research repository | In-Person |
|
11:35 am - 12:20 pm |
Robert Williams | Stop The Report! The Power of People. Re-Igniting the Engagement of Customer to Client | In-Person |
|
12:25 pm - 1:40 pm |
Lunch | ||
|
1:45 pm - 2:30 pm |
Carla Sarli | Story showing: The use of infographic resources to present research results. | In-Person |
|
2:35 pm - 3:05 pm |
Fionna Yao & Anna Lee Anda | Beep Boop! Are bots better for consumers and the agents behind the screen? | In-Person |
|
3:10 pm - 3:45 pm |
Afternoon Tea | ||
|
3:50 pm - 4:35 pm |
Jessica Crisp | Valuable Insights: Connecting Research to Value | In-Person |
|
4:50 pm - 7:00 pm |
Closing Drinks | Riverland Bar | |
|
7:00 pm |
END OF DAY 3 | ||