Talks

Videos of the talks presented at our DesignOps Melbourne Meetup. You can find these on our YouTube Channel as well.

Up Bank

November 30, 2023

With soul: A love letter to brand design.

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29:19

Headshot photo of Evan Simmonds

Evan
Simmonds

Lead Product Designer

Up Bank

Storytail

November 30, 2023

The 2%: Building startups and milking cows

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15:04

Headshot photo of Ryan Hayward

Ryan
Hayward

Founder

Storytail

Ferocia

August 24, 2023

Figma Frontiers: Sharpening your axe before cutting down a tree

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24:40

Headshot photo of Dave Williames

Dave
Williames

Founder

Ferocia

Hypermatic

August 24, 2023

Take the Pink Pill (why Best Practices™ are dead ends)

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39:05

Headshot photo of Adam Brock

Adam
Brock

Founder

Hypermatic

REA Group

October 5, 2022

How we saved 320,000 hours

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1:04:00

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Design
System

Team

REA Group

Afterpay

June 9, 2021

Product Strategy Ops? The evolving role of DesignOps

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58:00

Headshot photo of Daphne Bourne

Daphne
Bourne

Design Operations Lead

Afterpay

NSW Design System

February 26, 2021

DesignOps in challenging environments

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51:35

Headshot photo of TJ Harrop

TJ
Harrop

Head of Design Operations

NSW Department of Customer Service

Dropbox

December 7, 2020

Community & Culture at Dropbox

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50:46

Headshot photo of Michelle Morrison

Michelle
Morrison

Head of Design Operations

Dropbox

Pinterest

October 29, 2020

Pro Tips for Developing Designers

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51:41

Headshot photo of Anne Purves

Anne
Purves

Director of Design Operations

Pinterest
Headshot photo of Kim Fellman

Kim
Fellman

Design Experience Lead

Pinterest

No Code

August 5, 2020

Bravo Studio

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49:32

Headshot photo of Marta Serrano

Marta
Serrano

Head of Product

Bravo Studio

Kanye for President

July 1, 2020

Building a design system with a small team

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57:31

Headshot photo of Buzz Usborne

Buzz
Usborne

Principal Designer

Help Scout

Zürich #3

June 12, 2020

How to start a user experience revolution

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1:02:39

Headshot photo of Paul Boag

Paul
Boag

UX & conversion optimisation strategist

Boagworks

The Godfather

May 15, 2020

Is Your Design Practice Healthy?

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54:25

Headshot photo of Dave Malouf

Dave
Malouf

DesignOps Leader. Speaker. Educator

Your mind makes it real

April 2, 2020

Building a startup (in a pandemic)

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46:25

Headshot photo of Adam Brock

Adam
Brock

Founder

Hypermatic

Your mind makes it real

April 2, 2020

Do components make it possible to design in code? Let's find out!

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58:47

Headshot photo of Mark Dalgleish

Mark
Dalgleish

Lead DesignOps

SEEK

Mo Money Mo Problems

June 5, 2019

Designer/Developer Empathy

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41:06

Headshot photo of Daniel Wearne

Daniel
Wearne

Head of Design

Up

Back to the future

November 7, 2018

Coding at the speed of design

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01:01:16

Headshot photo of Mark Dalgleish

Mark
Dalgleish

Design Systems Engineering Lead

SEEK

Back to the future

November 7, 2018

Insanely Inevitable

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44:25

Headshot photo of Adam Brock

Adam
Brock

Senior Front End Developer

Tundra

Going Rogue

September 5, 2018

Rogue One — A Change Agent Story

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54:52

Headshot photo of Milly Schmidt

Milly
Schmidt

Director of Product & Design

RateIt

Going Rogue

September 5, 2018

Go Rogue — Turn Frustration Into Opportunity

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27:54

Headshot photo of Chris Cacioppe

Chris
Cacioppe

Senior Product Designer

Australia Post

Figma

September 5, 2018

Figma API Demo – Design to HTML in 3 Seconds

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01:14

Headshot photo of Adam Brock

Adam
Brock

Senior Front End Developer

Tundra

Figma

July 4, 2018

Why Figma will be remembered as a genre defining classic

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01:11:50

Headshot photo of Marty Coghlan

Marty
Coghlan

Senior Digital Designer

M A S S
Headshot photo of Scott Moselen

Scott
Moselen

Senior Digital Designer

M A S S

Figma

July 4, 2018

Life After Sketch – Featuring The Notorious F.I.G.

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25:08

Headshot photo of Adam Brock

Adam
Brock

Senior Front End Developer

Tundra

Panel discussion

May 30, 2018

Product ecosystem panel hosted by Academy Xi – DesignOps Director's Cut

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19:03

Headshot photo of Adam Brock

Adam
Brock

Senior Front End Developer

Tundra

Design Sprints

May 2, 2018

Design Sprints – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

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43:17

Headshot photo of Tim Kotsiakos

Tim
Kotsiakos

Creative Director & Founder

M A S S

Design Sprints

May 2, 2018

Getting the most out of your ideas as a small design team

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21:43

Headshot photo of John Broadfoot

John
Broadfoot

Senior Designer

August
Headshot photo of Mel Bruning

Mel
Bruning

Designer

August

Design Sprints

May 2, 2018

Design spikes at Australia Post

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24:05

Headshot photo of Lexi Thorn

Lexi
Thorn

Digital Design Director

Australia Post
Headshot photo of Sarah Meikle

Sarah
Meikle

Senior Delivery Manager

Australia Post

Design Systems

March 28, 2018

Sketching in the browser

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30:56

Headshot photo of Mark Dalgleish

Mark
Dalgleish

Lead DesignOps

SEEK

Design Systems

March 28, 2018

Building emails 70x faster with reverse science fiction and Kanye Wes(s)t

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32:19

Headshot photo of Adam Brock

Adam
Brock

Senior Front End Developer

Tundra

Design Systems

March 28, 2018

Put your design system on the wall

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21:41

Headshot photo of Tom Bredin-Grey

Tom
Bredin-Grey

Senior Front End Developer

Today
Headshot photo of Dan Laush

Dan
Laush

Senior Front End Developer

Today