Laura Summers and Milly Schmidt have been active contributors in the Australian tech scene for a while now. Both have strong backgrounds in design, development, user experience, copy writing and product management. They’ve also mentored dozens of young women and have both spoke at numerous events.

In this two part episode we have a wide ranging discussion including, defining your skillset and handling imposter syndrome, how to navigate interviews, diversity at all levels, handling toxic cultures and how to build positive ones, salaries and more.

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Laura Summers and Milly Schmidt have been active contributors in the Australian tech scene for a while now. Both have strong backgrounds in design, development, user experience, copy writing and product management. They’ve also mentored dozens of young women and have both spoke at numerous events.

In this two part episode we have a wide ranging discussion including, defining your skillset and handling imposter syndrome, how to navigate interviews, diversity at all levels, handling toxic cultures and how to build positive ones, salaries and more.

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In the second of a two part episode we take a look at culture and diversity and learn how successful companies are thinking about this and what we can try in our own companies.

We speak with Farai Madzima, A UX Lead from Shopify, Remya Ramesh, Senior Design Manager at REA Group, and Atlassian’s Global Head of Diversity and Belonging, Aubrey Blanche. We learn that both of these important topics are much more nuanced than you might think.

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In the first of a two part episode we take a look at culture and diversity and explore what they are and how they can be viewed differently.

We speak with Farai Madzima, A UX Lead from Shopify, and Atlassian’s Global Head of Diversity and Belonging, Aubrey Blanche. We learn that both of these important topics are much more nuanced than you might think.

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Carmel was sure she was going to be fired. It was clear to her that she was out of her depth & only a matter of time until someone found out. She should just quit... That's what she though, but not what she did. Carmel changed her thinking & put herself on the path to helping hundreds of other suffering from self doubt.

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How do you lead if you've never been well lead? We speak to design leaders at some of the world's most interesting companies to learn how they think about leadership, and what their major challenges were and continue to be.

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When tragedy strikes & everything you've worked for is taken away from you, how do you respond? In this episode we hear the story of how someone took a devastating event & turned it into a company which changes the lives of thousands.

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Motivated by the preventable death of a young girl, a group of students set out to design a better solution to anaphylactic allergies and in the process create an award winning idea.

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In this episode we learn about a revolutionary dance program which has been liberating Parkinson's sufferers from their symptoms through movement and music.  Where does UX come into this? Well, they received a grant from Google to create an augmented reality application to bring their dance classes out of the studio and into the world of their students.

How does you design an AR product which needs to cater for the many and varying symptoms which impose upon a person with Parkinson's Disease? We find out.

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This is the first episode in a mini series which revolves around the UX Awards, the premier independent awards, which this year will be held in Palo Alto, California on November 8 and 9. To learn more about the awards, as well as how to enter, go to uxawards.org.

In this first episode we speak to the awards founder, Beverly May. We learn why they were created, and how this year the awards are focusing on the future of UX.

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In 2016 a design partner from Google Ventures (GV), Jake Knapp, released a book called Sprint. The book introduced the idea of Design Sprints, a concept that had existed within Google for several years and was a mainstay in the toolset employed by GV with their portfolio of companies.

The beauty of Jake’s book is that it is very specific, there is even a 15-page checklist for when you are running your own Design Sprints. This however did not stop a swathe of folks from appropriating the name, but not the core ideas. What this in turn meant is that acts were being committed under the name of Design Sprint but were not even remotely close to what Jake describes in Sprint.

In this episode we dive into what Design Sprints really are, address their detractors and we visit the enterprise giant, Aus Post, where they ran 4 sprints in 5 weeks. 

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