About us
Sydney Design Thinking (SydDT) is a diverse community of 10,000+ members. We've been meeting monthly since 2015 to explore the world of design thinking as a human-centred design and living systems approach to innovation and solving complex problems – to help create positive outcomes for people, our planet, and business. We're one of the top design thinking meetups globally.
The vision for the SydDT meetup from the get go was to build a connected community and ecosystem of people from a diverse range of design and business practices, industries, contexts, and roles… to learn and share. To get exposed to what others are doing and see what's possible.
We’re proud to see this in our community – our members are experience designers, researchers, service designers, startup founders, product people, consultants, academics, anthropologists, architects, software engineers, project managers, medicos, engineers, and many other roles.
We keep it pretty casual with plenty of time for networking before jumping into talks, panels, and workshops on a broad range of topics - with a healthy Q&A that often turns into a group discussion. You can read a bit about the history and journey of our community and events here.
New members are welcome! If you’re not already a member, feel free to join our community. Each meetup audience is curated to a degree to make sure we have a mix of new people, as well as the committed regulars.
We’d love to hear from you if you’re keen to speak – or if there’s someone you think we should invite to speak.
Thanks
Ben Pecotich, Kylie Mageropoulos, Kate Linton & Lucas Mara
Sydney Design Thinking (SydDT) Organising Team
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SydDT #125: From Assumption to Evidence: Prototyping at the Right Fidelity
Atlassian, Level 6, 341 George St, Sydney, AUFor our April SydDT event, we're lucky to have Gordon Burnett taking us through prototyping at the right fidelity – and why it matters more than most people think.
We all prototype… but how often do we stop and ask whether we're prototyping at the right level of detail for the stage we're at? Too polished too early can lock in assumptions. Too rough too late can undermine confidence.
Getting the fidelity right – at the right moment – is what turns prototyping from a checkbox into a genuine decision-making tool.
Gordon will share a range of methods and real-world case studies – from simple sketches and quick experiments to 3D printing and AI-assisted prototype development – showing how to move from assumption to evidence at every stage of the process.
Come join us for some fun conversations with interesting people in and around the design thinking community. New members are welcome!
SPEAKER
Gordon Burnett
Design Lead – Health Prototyping Centre, eHealth NSW
Gordon has worked in a wide range of design roles over 20 years. Starting in print design, he's navigated the early years of the internet, app design, smart speakers, mixed reality, and a range of other interfaces.Rapid prototyping is the one thing that connected all this work – being able to rapidly answer questions and make decisions, including whether to kill an idea or not.
Recently, Gordon was the Design Lead at NSW Health's first Health Prototyping Centre, leading work optimising workflows, designing more efficient workspaces, and leading evaluations of new technologies.
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