Schedule

UX Australia 2023 will take place from Tuesday, August 22 to Friday, August 25. 

Workshops will run in person only on Tuesday 22 and Wednesday 23 August 

Conference presentations will run in a hybrid format on Thursday 24 and Friday 25 August 

All conference ticket holders will have access to the entire two days and will be able to view all conference presentations. Workshop tickets must be purchased separately. 

Sponsor sessions run either online or in-person. These are organised externally to the UX Australia 2023 programme and require additional sign up. Follow the registration links below in each sponsor session to RSVP.

All times are in AEST. 

DAY 1 | TUESDAY 22 AUGUST

TIME PRESENTER WORKSHOP DELIVERY
8:00 am

DAY 1 COMMENCES

8:15 am

Workshop Registration Opens

9:00 am - 1:00 pm Sarah Stokes

Workshop: Wisdom in design (leadership) is closer than you think

Shangri-La Sydney
12:30 pm 

Workshop Registration Opens 

5:30 pm 

End of Day 1 Workshops 

Sponsor & Social Sessions 

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm 

Askable

Continuous Discovery: Are you as connected to your customers as you think?

Register Here 

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Sketch Group

Sketching Goals

Register Here
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm JMC

PAPER, PLONK & PIZZA, Triple P at JMC

Register Here

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm 

Everest Engineering

Sh*T Tank

Register Here

DAY 2 | WEDNESDAY 23 AUGUST

TIME PRESENTER WORKSHOP DELIVERY
8:00 am

DAY 2 COMMENCES

8:15 am

Workshop Registration Opens

9:00 am - 1:00 pm Alan Chen & Diana Ayoub

Workshop: People Power - How to Draw People using your iPad

Shangri-La Sydney

1:00 - 5:30 pm 

Grace Cairnduff & Darcy Mangan

Workshop: The Art of Effective Workshops

Shangri-La Sydney
9:00 am - 5:30 pm Lily Ainsworth & Ruth Ellison Workshop: Beyond affinity mapping: choosing your analysis methods

Shangri-La Sydney

5:30 pm 

End of Day 2 Workshops

Sponsor & Social Sessions

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Aquent

Digitalks @ UX Australia:  From Design to Profit: Business Acumen for Designers

Register Here
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm User Testing

How to quantify the value of design through Empathy Benchmarking

Registration is now closed.
6:00 pm 

UX Australia

Conference Opening Party Shangri-La Sydney

DAY 3 | THURSDAY 24 AUGUST

TIME PRESENTER PRESENTATION
8:00 am

DAY 3 COMMENCES

8:15 am

Registration Opens

8:50 am

Zoom Webinar Opens

9:00 am

Opening notes & Welcome to Country

9:15 am - 10:15 am Keynote: Erin Casali

Driving organizational change with co-design

10:15 am - 10:40 am Morning Tea Break
10:40 am 11:10 am 

Alina Butolina

The Value of Global Inclusive Design Practices
11:15 am - 11:35 am

Emily Underwood and Eilish Out-O'Reilly

Designing for the overlooked user we will all become
11:40 am - 12:10 pm

Julia Suh 

Driving a multi-sector collaboration for countering online child sexual exploitation
12:15 pm - 12:45 pm

Claudette Yazbek

A New Policy Paradigm
12:45 pm - 1:45 pm

Lunch Break

1:45 pm - 2:30 pm

Sarah Heimeier

Digital transformation – A framework for success
2:35 pm - 3:05 pm Elle Geraghty

Chat GPT and your content: What works and what doesn’t.

3:10 pm - 3:40 pm 

Afternoon Tea Break

3:40 pm - 4:25 pm 

Nova Franklin, James Elks, Katie Eyles

Collaboration!! Reducing embodied carbon together.
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm  Ben Pecotich

Regenerative Design & Innovation… for Happier Communities.

5:00 pm 

END OF CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

 

5:00 pm 

Blueegg

Gnarly Conference Reflections

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DAY 4 | FRIDAY 25 AUGUST

TIME PRESENTER PRESENTATION
8:00 am

DAY 4 COMMENCES

8:15 am

Registration opens

8:50 am

Zoom Webinar Opens 

9:00 am

Opening Notes

9:05 am - 9:35 am

George Aye

That Quiet Little Voice: When Design and Ethics Collide
9:40 am - 10:25 am

Zoë Rose

Creative thinking methodologies: a lost history
10:25 am - 10:55 am 

Morning Tea Break

10:55 am - 11:40 am Eva Plaisted, Klaus Paiva and Maria Christley

Going smaller, to go bigger: A design system evolution

11:45 am - 12:15 pm  Amelia Purvis

Your new cheat sheet for note taking and synthesis

12:20 pm - 1:05 pm Yasamin Asadi

Designing for a post-lockdown metaverse

1:05 pm - 2:15 pm 

Lunch Break

2:15 pm - 3:00 pm  Karina Smith and Alexandra Almond

What we learnt about service design living in France

3:05 pm - 3:25 pm 

Penny Goodwin

Information Architecture and product development
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm 

Afternoon Tea Break

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm  Andy Budd

Design’s Mid-Life Crisis

5:00 pm

END OF CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Closing Party - Harts Pub

Sponsor & Social Sessions

7:30 am - 8:30 am

Liquid Interactive

Collaboration Breakfast with Liquid Interactive

Register Here
7:45 am - 8:45 am

Sh8peshifters

Creative Spark - Morning Coffee with Sh8peshifters

Registration has now closed.