About us
Welcome to Adelaide Design Thinking (AdlDT), a vibrant monthly gathering aimed at fostering innovative solutions through the principles of human-centred design. Launching in 2025, we draw inspiration from the successful Sydney Design Thinking community, which boasts over 10,000 members. Our mission is to cultivate a collaborative environment where designers, product managers, technologists and thinkers from varied backgrounds can converge to tackle complex challenges, share insights, and drive positive change for individuals, businesses, and Australia. Expect engaging talks, Q&A, interactive workshops, and ample networking opportunities in a relaxed setting.
To bring you this meet up we've spoken to 30+ designers, product managers, developers, and business analysts on what they'd like to see in an Adelaide design and digital community. Our mission is to create a thriving creative community here in South Australia. We look forward to creating this further with you over 2025! Each meetup audience will be curated to make sure we have a mix of new people, as well as the committed regulars.
We invite professionals from all areas — ranging from experience designers, researchers, service designers, startup founders, product people, consultants, academics, anthropologists, architects, software engineers, project managers, engineers, and many other roles. Get involved to understand what others are doing and see what's possible. We’d also love to hear from you if you’re keen to speak – or if there’s someone you think we should invite to speak.
Thanks and see you in 2025!
Adelaide Design Thinking (AdlDT) Organising Team
Natasha Ballantyne Ben Pecotich Maria K John Robinson
Upcoming events
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- A$5.00
AdelaideDesignThinking#08
Stone and Chalk, Allied Health Building, Lot Fourteen, North Terrace, Adelaide, AUAdlDT #08 | The Human Edge: Building AI Products with Human In The Loop Design Decisions
Most AI products in healthcare get sold on what the machine can do.
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EVENT DETAILS
Date: Thursday, July 2nd
Location: Stone and Chalk, Marnirni-apinthi Building, Lot Fourteen, North Terrace, Adelaide
Format: 2x guest speaker talks, Lukah & Suhit, followed by Q&AGuest Speaker#1: Lukah Dykes
Join us for AdlDT#08 as Lukah Dykes (CTO of HeartAI) unpacks human-in-the-loop design decisions in AI products, and what it actually takes to design AI software that clinicians can trust inside real hospital workflows, with real consequences if the design gets it wrong.
What you'll learn:
→ Where the "loop" actually needs to sit in high-stakes AI products
→ How to design for trust and accountability, not just output quality
→ Practical lessons from building AI inside real clinical workflowsGuest Speaker#2: Suhit Anantula
Our second speaker is Suhit Anantula (Founder of The Helix Lab) who will unpack his innovative AI x HCD method, a powerful framework to define and deliver AI solutions at scale. He will reveal how to effectively combine human-centred design principles with AI development to solve the right problems, manage risk, achieve return on investment and build crucial organisational capability.What you'll learn:
→ The core components of The Helix Lab's HCD x AI method
→ Practical strategies for developing production AI systems with a focus on outcomes, contained risk, and ethical governance.We're excited to bring you another Adelaide Design Thinking meet up. Join us for an evening of inspiration and conversation. We look forward to seeing you there!
—————THE AGENDA
- 5:30pm Arrival & Networking
- 5:45pm Guest Speaker#1: Lukah Dykes
- 6:15pm Guest Speaker#2: Suhit Anantula
- 6:45pm Q&A
- 7:00pm Networking
- 7:30pm Close
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EVENT SPONSORS
This meetup is brought to you by Aplo, Dynamic4, Encode Talent and Scyne Advisory.Any questions please reach out to our organising team
Natasha Ballantyne, Carla Raymond & Simon Cook65 attendees - A$5.00
AdelaideDesignThinking#09
Scyne Advisory, Level 5, 50 Rundle Mall, Adelaide, AUAdlDT #09 | Topic Coming Soon!
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EVENT DETAILS
Date: Thursday, August 20th
Location: Adelaide CBD
Format: Guest speaker followed by Q&AWe're excited to bring you another Adelaide Design Thinking meet up. Join us for an evening of inspiration and conversation. We look forward to seeing you there!
—————THE AGENDA
- Guest Speaker: TBC
- Q&A
- Networking
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EVENT SPONSORS
This meetup is brought to you by Aplo, Dynamic4, Encode Talent and Scyne Advisory.Any questions please reach out to our organising team
Natasha Ballantyne, Carla Raymond & Simon Cook4 attendees - A$5.00
AdelaideDesignThinking#10
Scyne Advisory, Level 5, 50 Rundle Mall, Adelaide, AUAdlDT #10 | Topic Coming Soon!
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EVENT DETAILS
Date: Thursday, October 22nd
Location: Adelaide CBD
Format: Guest speaker followed by Q&AWe're excited to bring you another Adelaide Design Thinking meet up. Join us for an evening of inspiration and conversation. We look forward to seeing you there!
—————THE AGENDA
- Guest Speaker: TBC
- Q&A
- Networking
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EVENT SPONSORS
This meetup is brought to you by Aplo, Dynamic4, Encode Talent and Scyne Advisory.Any questions please reach out to our organising team
Natasha Ballantyne, Carla Raymond & Simon Cook4 attendees
Past events
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