What we’re about
Sydney Design Thinking (SydDT) is a diverse community of 9,500+ 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
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- SydDT #107/Design Connection #4: 2024 Reflection & CelebrationAtlassian Sydney office, SydneyA$10.00
RSVPs ARE OPEN BUT NOT ON THIS PAGE. GET YOUR TICKET HERE!
For our 16th and final SydDT for 2024, we’ll be reflecting on and celebrating the year that’s been. This will be a very interactive session and a good chance to reconnect with the regulars in the community and welcome plenty of new people. New friends and old.
Continuing our tradition since 2018, we’ve teamed up with our friends from three other Sydney design meetups to celebrate the end of 2024.
Come join us for some fun conversations with interesting people in and around the design community. This will sell out fast… be quick 😃
DESIGN CONNECTION
Design Connection #4 is another in our design megameetup series.Design Connection is a collective of three Sydney design meetups... Ben Pecotich from Sydney Design Thinking (SydDT), Adam Faulkner from Enterprise UX (EUX), and Kevin Wilkins from Creative Customer Experience (CCX), with Susan Wolfe and Vera Chan being the backbone of Design Connection 😃
EVENT SPONSORS
This event is brought to you by Atlassian and Dynamic4. - SydDT #108: Visual Thinking with Alan Chen & Diana Ayoub from Sh8peshiftersThoughtworks, SydneyA$10.00
We're lucky to have Alan Chen and Diana Ayoub from Sh8peshifters kicking off SydDT for 2025 with a visual thinking workshop!
Come join us for some fun conversations with interesting people in and around the design thinking community. New members are welcome!
More details closer to the date...
SPEAKERS
Alan Chen
Co-founder & Visual Storyteller, Sh8peshifters
Awesome bio coming soon...Diana Ayoub
Co-founder & Visual Storyteller, Sh8peshifters
Awesome bio coming soon...EVENT SPONSORS
This meetup is brought to you by Thoughtworks, Sh8peshifters, and Dynamic4.